El Toro

Whats not Cat3 Bazza?

They were sailing SJ last night, had gander at them as we sailed past.....bugger

Looks like its on a trailer to me....but what do I know, my boat is plastic...

Regardless, I thought the photo showed some nice lines of the trailer sailer

Search for Keep left unless passing

It turned up on a sh*t Driving Facebook page... seems the guy doesn't understand the keep left unless passing road rule

I think you've done a good job with the splits Jon...They seem pretty fair and reasonable to me

The Spectra has an auto flush so you can leave it on and it willclean itself every 24hours. But its a prick of a thing to setup. I did that for 2 years until I tirned it off in error and wasnt able to easily set up the auto flush again. But in saying that, I pickled mine as it was a pain in the arse and I wasnt even using it... and when I did turn it on, I managed to root the membrane. A water maker guru told me the Spectra was the worst product on the market that he services/repairs. I didnt ask him why though, I just wanted it fixed and shut down. Instead Ive plumped the roof to collect w

See if you can get your hands on Dr Bob

Bazza, make sure you use the anode attached to the engine, after that system went in she was burning through the anodes on the shaft. Smithy, the system on Bazzas boat was put in by Gavin at Marine Electrics....I went down this path as I believe in doing it once only and after listening to Gavin, I figured that they were going to force the max system on people eventually, so thats what I put in....but thats not to say I didnt find it a complete pain in the arse having the lead attached to the boat though.

NOT North Shore Refridgeration

I went through this a couple of years ago and elected to go down the eWOF route with attached cord as I figured that they would change the rules a few times and go down this route anyways, given nobody knew what they were requiring. Gavin at Marine Electrics did a pretty good job. But what a complete pain in the arse. Had to coil up the attached lead and stow on the boat, which cruising was a pain in the arse as it took room, and racing it was a pain in the arse as it got wet a couple of times when racing in some seriously heavy sh*t....salt just loves this kind of sh*t... I then

Well I vote they stay there, you're messing with their very cunning plans Scottie! In fact you sound to me like you are the stairs that prevented the Daleks from taking over the world.....

This made me laugh... "Nosaka is a 40 foot family cruising boat which through cunning sailing and insufficient sandbagging has been promoted to Division One by the merciless handicappers. Now we shall unleash our devilish plan to dominate the time corrected results from the back of said fleet. Bwa ha ha." Think hes probably got a fair point given we beat him most times on line in this race, not always but most of the time. Dont envy handicappers thats for sure.....

Can't go past John Lidgard. Just lay it all out then have a great yarn with good digger

What about long distance motoring NZgrant? Do you find it faster/lower revs/better feul economy? We do alot of motoring for a boat with a mast unfortunately, and am keen to eek out a little more speed, am pondering them, but ye gods they are expensive

Yep thats the one, could you give me soe more info on that....interested to hear, do you think it improved performance (after ripping the gear box out!?)

Anybody got any thoughts on the 3 bladed Gori with overdrive prop? Good bad and the ugly?

They're all different as were retrofitted and for different reasons....not that many 10.5s around. Pork Chops prod was made to 1.2m to keep it in line with the 1050s and also fit into a 12m berth, The Butcher went for the montster retractable to do offshores, as well as moved both the rig (and keel?)as well as made the keel uber deep..... and Pighunters has only gone on very recently and is different again but still retains the orginal jandle configuration. The reason the forestay is out so far is to reduce the 'oh sh*t we're going down the mine' moments the boats suffered...and is a l

We had the burner on low (as high made the saloon to hot) and had the hatch above the stove open a minimul amount. THehole in the pot vented straight up and out the hatch. There is also a LPG and CO2 sniffer under stove and in both hulls and had no issues. The pot stayed hot for about an hour after use, was quite impressed. Also when woke up in morning had zero condensation inside the cabin. Def wouldnt leave it on after going to bed, but with a few people in saloon and had the pot on low both nights for about 4 hours, was toasty and felt safe. Kept and eye on it the whole time, but wa

We tried the pot on the stove over the weekend, worked a treat in the saloon, now just need to break a few laws of physics to get the heat to travel down into the hulls...

I wouldnt touch Raymarine with a barge pole, their customer service is absymal and the warraty isnt worth the paper its written on. Most of my gear is Raymarine but Ill be replacing with B&G if and when the need arises.

Ive got a mate looking at buying this Townson...has anybody got any feedback on her. App needs a new rig and antifoul but other than that looks in good nick Cheers

Follow up to all of this.... I sent a similar letter to Raymarine USA, who then forwarded it to Raymarine UK and within 36 hours I had a response from them offering me the unit for $350 plus gst and an apology. Whilst I still have to pay and unit not being covered by warranty I am happy with that as a compromise in the interests of moving forward. So well done to Raymarine....I am told Lusty and Blundell will be in touch over getting it sorted..Ill post an endnote once they have...........

Hi Wheels, yes the reseller has been dealing with them not me, in fact two resellers, as I went to another one to buy a compeitiors brand and they started cashing up for me as well. As did a third party. I think they may have got sick of all the people chasing them over it. They are saying there is a pin size hole in the screen, but on part of the screen that is behind the case, so not anywhere you can touch, which then led them after blaming everyone and everything else to say the reseller installed it wrong... which is absolute crap. I stand behind the reseller and their installation 100