[sailing from mangonui to kerikeri inlet - tips?]

You need to get a copy of the old RAYC cruising guide.

 

that would be this?

 

COASTAL CRUISING HANDBOOK, Tenth Edition.

By Royal Akarana Yacht Club. Hardcover. 312 pages, 160mm x 230mm, black and white diagrams.

The Coastal Cruising Handbook is a comprehensive cruising guide to New Zealand’s coast and off-lying islands from North Cape to East Cape. Since the first edition was published in 1972, steady demand has indicated that this publication fills a very real need for the navigator in North Island waters.

This tenth edition, while remaining true to the spirit of the original and the intentions of the founding editors, has been extensively revised to take into account recent changes to buoyage and marine developments.

 

NZ$62.00 + delivery.

 

http://www.boatbooks.co.nz/cruznz.html

[This Weekend's Achievements]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caipirinha

[The fight over Takapuna Beach continues]

this opti could be had for $500

 

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-m ... 910180.htm

 

why would you splash out $2000 to put your kid's toe in the water

[liveaboard]

good liveaboard video

 

[This Weekend's Achievements]

not sure if nz has carpenter ants, but they are big buggers who like to live in soft rotted woods

 

unlike termites they can't actually eat the wood but they will chew up soft woods into sawdust sized bits and then cart them off to throw outside and leave termite looking channels and egg galleries etc

 

leave some ant poison for them if you have a week or so or just spray the hell out of them and come back next day with a vacuum cleaner

 

http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/publicat ... iscoveries

[timberwolf]

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must have been a relief to get it back up

 

with the rig still on

 

with the sail still looking good

 

and no imploding floats!

 

well done all round