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  1. sarca excel gets a rap here http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f118/sarca-excel-68946.html
  2. interesting pic from an interesting post http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=31363&d=1315395318 the excel looks like a plow the spade below does look interesting but .....can't see any reason to change from the current over-sized belgian bruce
  3. so many clear blue days certainly great weather for scenic flying beautiful pics
  4. i suspect IT was asking when nz would allow long-life elecs. to legally replace short-life pyro Complies with all U.S. Coast Guard requirements for “Night Visual Distress Signals” 46 CFR 161.013
  5. the new rocna vulcan? http://artofhookie.org/2015/03/06/rocna-vulcan/
  6. ^ us$100 + runs off 3 x alkaline C cells
  7. very interesting presumably the famous migaloo (some australians think not) who has been spent 25? years swimming between the ice and queensland i don't think anyone thought that trip was going through cook straight is magloo going to oz again or perhaps going via norfolk to visit the new in-laws in new calidonian? before heading back over the hervay bay? or will stay out east? there were some reports he was distressed by australian paparazzi
  8. like those raised saloons a feature of the german reinke yachts http://www.inautia.com/used-boat-50914080140756100101504997515045.html
  9. love those eyebrow windows and the 1 in westhaven looks + reads like it would be well worth a visit
  10. bought some sails off a reasonably cared for 3 skin kauri boat broken up as had succumbed to freshwater rot of the inner skin presumably over its long life someone hadn't taken enough care sealing the gunnels?
  11. they're making an example of him how dare he not pay rates!
  12. "Their Facebook page is called 'Nothing's Impossible'. Well, some things [shouldn't] ought to be attempted." they had to phone home to be told to turn on their epirb http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/70082914/rescue-mission-for-injured-english-rower-on-indian-ocean-crossing
  13. some of us enjoy turning trees into tools - GOP others getting old tools working again - GRP currently fettling my collection of old tools
  14. solid grp stands up much better to years of neglect
  15. there seems to an old guy living at northcote point stove burning flu sticking out the cabin and another at okahu bay, close in boat covered in stuff, 2 ribs tied up and of course heaps at waiheke they'd have the best gen.
  16. erice

    mini 650 439

    not much bigger than my old weta and planes like 1 too
  17. erice

    mini 650 439

    looks like it has already has an nz connection? http://www.histoiredeshalfs.com/Histoire%20des%20Minis/439.htm if you've got google trans on chrome this should automatically translate http://tamagoshiboat.blogspot.co.nz/
  18. erice

    mini 650 439

    that's a pretty special keel on your new boat https://youtu.be/Rv-X8b_Ht8w http://www.inautia.com/used-boat-2141070142955704968554949704566.html
  19. if someone up there can come up with a road name it might even show on google earth google search flipped up this from 2008 The remains (Hull & Keel) of the above are sitting on a farm at Kaeo and are available for sale for the value of the lead in the keel. I have the owners name and phone number if anyone is interested. ....Brad Topp is at 09 405 0157. He lives on a farm just south of Kaeo but the boat is on another farm nearby. ....The owner is less than interested in tyre kickers and their attention is counterproductive. If someone is REALLY serious about Ngahau (
  20. bring back the black hand gang the titanic apparently had 25 boilers that needed to be stoked
  21. a bit like the great coal schooners hope she has a longer life http://penobscotmarinemuseum.org/pbho-1/collection/five-masted-schooner-martha-p-small at least they didn't get all silly
  22. http://www.steelmasters.co.nz/rivets/monel-rivets/afa.asp?idWebPage=41062&CATID=114
  23. final bit of the story http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11472189 if anyone knows them can you ask if the engine was running when it burst into flames?
  24. not sure i would consider 23' big enough to live aboard but you should learn a whole lot about them by going through these threads that search turned up http://crew.org.nz/forum/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=search&fromMainBar=1
  25. ??? unless this is very very new maybe you registered to become a burnsco member so you could buy it at a special price?
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