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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

Not often, in fact not sure if I ever even have, bagged a company for terrible customer service, but this one takes the cake, beats even my experience with North Shore Refrigeration a few years ago. In early January the Raymarine chart plotter on Pork Chop died. The unit was installed professionally by a resupplier about a year earlier, maybe a little more. (This unit replaced a Navman unit that had been in use the previous 11 years.) Once back in Auckland I got the resupplier to have a look at the unit, who found it to have water damage, unit was removed from the boat and sent back to Lus

Yea I guess the point I was trying to make as not many people have come thru the ranks and bought, or even upgraded their boats in the racing scene in quite some time...certainly not in the space wehre the boat are used for dual purpose

Tim C Tim CAdvanced Member Members 479 posts LocationWarkworth, and the World! Posted Yesterday, 08:15 AM island time, on 11 Mar 2015 - 4:21 PM, said: I had fun trying to answer that question accurately! If it was effort, thought time, and money then the answer was racing. If it was hours or nautical miles it easily would be cruising. I answered the former, but a marginal call. What is interesting is how boats, or at least their owners, don't seem to be able to do both in the same boat so much. Much of the fleet seems to be in one corner or the other I think. Which is a pit

Do you do air fills Rental? Sweet Jesus Mary I drive past you every day for 13 years and didnt even know you are there..even sneak the occasional roll from the frogs place

Anchorage is rubbish in Fitzroy but the Fishing club is open year round, was there for the code few weeks back, had a few punters in it which made for some funn times