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Veladare - did you get the yammy? Which one?
A Yamaha 15HP is on my wish list, and I too looked at the weight difference.
How much did you end up paying?
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6 minutes ago, Steve Pope said:
Don't know if you have starlings in your neck of the woods, but they "love" stack packs, of course as well as sail cover that allow them entry, a 25mm hole is enough for them to make themselves at home. I have eyelets that allow me to lace the ends up, saves looking at shitty sails all day.
Haven't encountered them yet (touch wood) but your not the first person to say that
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Any how back to lazy jacks / stack packs 😀
Just got ours installed but haven't had much chance to test it out.
Who else runs lines forward when raising main? (I'm very happy with the quality of the work on this so far (Craft Covers)
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Hi Guys
Raymarine Axiom 7" Touchscreen GPS/Chartplotter
Raymarine RVX-100 Transducer
Navionics Chart Card
All gear is new in box UNOPENED. Full warranty still available on the gear.
Gear is surplus to requirements. Does radar/fish finder/chart plotter/tank levels/sailing etc with the appropriate transducers.
Normally $2199 @ Marine Deals. Happy to let it go for $1700.
Al
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Finally got the stack pack installed. Pretty happy with it so far:
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Looks like a speed machine! (Not the VW)
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I am very concerned at the health of the Gulf. To try to do my bit, whenever we walk along the beach the kids pick up plastic, and when we are on the boat we turn around to fish plastic (normally bait bags) out of the water - gives the kids good practice with the boat hook!
On the land side of things it is heartening to see that now there are good Kiwi numbers on Motuhie, Motutapu, Rotoroa, Tiri, Kawau, Motuora, Little Barrier. I was on Motuhie recently watching the kiwi and Tuatara while looking at the sky tower. Awsome - wish we could fix below the surface as easily.
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Sounds like we agree on the price side of things!! There were the other reasons I went against gimballed.
Is your mount dampened? How did you do it?
Do you normally alter your G/SC settings or find that auto does a good enough job?
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Looking back I am still happy that we didn't go with gimbals. The Scan strut gimbal mount is very pricey, and I decided against it on both financial reasons and that its another moving part which could fail. Alll the flexing wouldn't do the cable much good either.
Looking back - the only thing I might do differently is mount the radar a little lower - as IT pointed out less movement probably helps with a better image. I might consider a pole on the transom, as we have ours near the first spreader we loose small close targets at slightly under 10m.
The beam is sufficiently wide (24 deg rings a bell) that even when heeling quite a bit it seems to work OK for other boats and buoys.
I don't use the doppler mode much, as the color pallette takes away more than gives back in terms of relative motion - but you can get relative velocity vectors which is another way to show the same thing. The Quantum doesn't do dual range - IT I'm sure will advise re HALO if it can.
Also check carefully about you particular brand of mast versus scanstrut hardware - we have a older kemp mast and found out that there was a special scanstrut part we had to use for our radar guard to fit the Selden/Kemp mast shape.
Hope this helps.
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On 21/04/2020 at 12:41 PM, Deep Purple said:
Automatic extension of medicals and BFR's til 24th June is in place
How do you lot afford a plane and a boat?
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4 hours ago, 44forty said:
I have a mate who works in the commercial marine industry servicing large ferries , globe trotting trawlers etc . He told me to give him a raft at service time and he could get it done for $650 ....in Auckland .
Seems like a Rort alright for the recreational sector . I’m glad that race committees are rethinking the raft requirement for short coastal races
Good to know; about the rort on life rafts.
IridiumGo Marine - Ebay - $1600NZD
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Thinking about going to the islands in the next year or so. A 6 person Life raft and IridiumGo are two items that I am unlikely to use again, so looking to rent.
Is anyone who has these interested in renting them, and if so what would the price be per month?
Just looking to get an idea of costs.
If raft isn't current inspection, we would arrange that OFC, and for the Go would also use our own sim.
Thanks.
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8 minutes ago, Winter said:
Maritime police. email or phone. pm me if you need the #.
They are happy to answer questions like this.
Agree with Winter on this - we had a issue the other day and the Maritime Police were reasonable and helpful.
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6 hours ago, Dtwo said:
So, we've been anchored in Mahurangi for nearly a month. At some stage we will need to fill up with water, which I can do easily at Gulf Harbour. I don't want to take up valuable police time so I think I should ask someone for permission for the obviously perilous trip through Tiri Channel. But who? Harbourmaster actually has authority I think? Coastguard (prefer not to ask them anything too difficult)? Police? Maritime New Zealand? (joking)
Does anyone know or are we all guessing?
I would talk to both HM and Police Maritime unit. After you have filled with water they may put restrictions on how far you can then go (nearest safe anchorage). I have heard reports that those coming back from the barrier are not allowed to go out again.
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On 11/04/2020 at 9:31 AM, Tamure said:
Our cops are actually very lenient, this vet turning back sounds like bullcrap
+1
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3 hours ago, 44forty said:
Post me one and I will set it up ! Needs to be able to pan 200 degrees to get the full scoop
In the meantime post a pic of this view. It sounds magnificent, and I can just image what it was like today!
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1 hour ago, Dagwood said:
Yeap, been a few years now but I was involved in the distribution of these films. I'm assuming you're looking at lettering cut from coloured vinyl as opposed to something being printed on white or clear vinyl.
High performance films were made from cast vinyl as opposed to calendered vinyl. Quite a different manufacturing technique and gave a film that was thinner, more flexible and more resistant to shrinkage.
It's true that the life expectancy ratings are based on a vertical surface but even so you should be fine with a good quality high performance cast vinyl. Over 90% of the boat names out there would be vinyl - either computer cut or digitally printed.
When was the last time you saw an old hand doing lettering with a brush at a hardstand?
Dagwood - thanks for your insights, sounds like you have been in the industry. I finally found the correct word for what we have - a reverse counter transom. Do you care to reccomend anyone? Someone out East Auckland would be great.
Cheers,
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2 hours ago, Sudden5869 said:
There's only so many projects you can do with supply challenges.
I'm glad I started the replacement floor boards just before lockdown. Almost done.Looks bloody good. Nice job.
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Our latest - nearly finished thanks to Craft Covers.
Hope it works as intended
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13 minutes ago, tuffyluffy said:
I had my boat sign-written with Vinyl lettering about 10 years ago - its still lookin great.
My counter stern faces north in the marina and cops the sun all day. Dark blue lettering on silver/grey.
Ahhh - good to know. Thanks
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We have lazy jacks, but not the stack pack - they are a pain in this configuration so we are getting a stack pack built. Will let you know the outcome once we are out of lock down.
I too have heard about the cordage getting caught (and we have a fully battened main) - apparently the size & type of the cordage needs to be right. For us 6mm sashcord on the aft most line was recommended - anything smaller increases chance of tangle (40ft boat).
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6 minutes ago, Winter said:
Lateral I like your idea of an on off switch on the regulator supply, might try that.
The graph is from a Victron 712, cabled into a Victron Venus GX which uploads data to the cloud, graphs are then from the Victron VRM portal
See here https://vrm.victronenergy.com/installation/36577/advanced (not my boat)
Winter : I have the VRM portal as well (except I did it with a Rasp Pi) - its bloody brilliant isn't it?
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We were looking at Vinyl lettering on our transom, the camber of the transom is such that it faces the sun (there is probably a term for that) - but anyway the point is the sign writer said that in NZ UV the lettering would not last long, and needed to be on a vertical, or past vertical surface.
Anyone else heard this, or have experience to the contrary?
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On 29/03/2020 at 4:34 PM, Island Time said:
They normally have 14 flights a week for supplies. Now they have two. They are not provisioned for anyone but locals...
And, some accounts have boaties reception ashore has been less than welcoming. Others say it's all good, so I'm not sure.
Personally I'd not rely on anything from ashore.
You have a bread maker on board IT?
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I noticed this on my Navionics App the other day:
The swath of new bathy is obviously from a boat with one of those bottom sonars (which we have too) and i think you need a navionics subscription to upload it.
Anyone else done it, or know how long it takes for them to publish it?