SloopJohnB

More red houses than a monopoly board.

Not much to say.........

FPSA scraping through on the smell of an oily rag Few sailors have made the kind of sacrifices Conrad Colman has in his pursuit of solo ocean racing glory. We love his story, we love his passion, we love his attitude; “I’ll sail the sh*t out of this boat, or die trying.” Conrad’s looking for some love from the SA community, so give yourself something to root for in the next Vendee Globe and throw some cash his way. Get to know Conrad in depth in this SA Innerview we did with him during the hate mission that was his Barcelona World Race, and enjoy his writing, as we do. Sick of the e

Years ago I can remember doing a race on Sundreamer. Richmond, Round the bottom end of Waiheke or the Cow & Calf around Tiri Navy Buoy and back to Richmond. If the grey cells are alighted it took us 28 minutes to do the Nauy buoy to Rangi Light. It was a blowing a good NEly,we were was a tight reaching, and I was on the jib sheet winch down to leeward in the fire-hose. Nearly as good as screaming down to White Island on Roulette 2 with the kite up, the bow wave was round the side stays coming up higher than the boom, the Silver Fox had the tiller wedged between his legs and just rock

I can't match the Doc, well done by the way one of my sons and I did the 6 hour IOM race at Hobbs Wharf on Sunday changed every 1/2 hour. We finished 4th. 9 boats started 4 finished high rate of failures, we just missed 3rd by 1 lap. When we downsided the rig from A to B I had an accident when putting the boat back and knocked the rudder and rotated 90 degrees very hard to sail, took ages to get the boat back thanks to swimmer. We completed 113 laps I think the winner did 126 laps. Got a few things to do on boat to improve things like the jib sheet getting hooked up etc etc.

Well done , which slow boat where you on.......all the boats where slow there year.......my son had to change his flights back to Nz a bit like I did in 81. My plane took off as we where rounding Tasman Island.

Just getting ready for his new Cat survey.

That reminds me of Tiny Tim. https://youtu.be/zcSlcNfThUA

How about this one SD a 1931 model? http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2015/09/17/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1931-morgan-aero/?refer=hsxweekly

Might have stopped all those oil leaks from the old morrie minor on dad's driveway

What a coincident, I have just blown 10 year old dust of my 2 IOM's and all the radio gear to put them back on the water, might be need some new batteries for the tx & rx's Further under the dust are couple of NS600 and a F100.

Don't all cruising boats lower their sails at sunset and then hoist them at sunrise.

Maybe not all viewers have boats.

and the John Denver classic...... "Jonathan Living Seagull" http://www.jonathanlivingstonseagull.com/

Correct on the first two. It's the male toilet seat at Paua World in Carterton.

Have a guest where I was over Easter????

it leaked......can't you see the holes.

If you are ever at the pub at low tide, you can see where the props have gone thru the mud. I have heard that my tinnie made quite few of them many years ago, the boys wakeboarding.

You could have saved the cockpit if you opened the hatchway.

Rurmour has it...... that a 90 ft canter will perform better than a 100 ft, if that's helps with the bank manager.

Is that GR that sailed with the "Cowboys"?

198 for 18

What 45 year old rum sloshing around in the bilge.

Four days on the sundeck of a launch recording the finishing numbers at the Laser nationals in Napier.