John B

One 'broach' /knockdown and your liferaft goes ? I saw that positioning out the back of the boat being recommended on another thread, doesn't seem like such a good idea to me. Apart from that it seemed like a good natured if dramatised little clip.Clearly they did have another raft and I remember it being talked about during the race , maybe on the RAYC site updates. They got wet in some sort of knock and something broke( which they easily fixed)..... systems normal i'nt it.

I wonder. I see there's an outstandingly refurbished Whiting half tonner ? sitting on cradle bunks beside her keel at okahu bay ATM.

Whenever I've been shown monel metal, although it is in general silver in colour like stainless, because it has nickel and copper in its makeup it seems to me to have a flatter almost hint of brown/green in it.( which is logical) especially in a bilge , where there might even be more green / copper traces due to doing the log paddlewheel clean. Would you agree with that sow1ld?

Yes I agree about the exposure to water and stainless,crevice corrosion and all that, I tend to think in terms of the monel bolts I have through floors, monitor for movement and or leaks and believe in it. My point really with the house analogy is the lack of redundancy you get with the sort of construction we're talking about here. Flex and movement on no significant structure , just a skin...leading to wet/ rust degradation and this sort of disaster. Those boats I saw on the hard at the viaduct about 10 +- years ago definitely did not have galvanised bolts. Zinc plating is what it was. I

I dunno , I think it could do with some more cowbell. ( but seriously , that is impressive)

I only even started wondering about the whole approach when I saw a bunch of euro imports on the dock in the viaduct , so it must have been in between or after the cups when it was that haulout area. But a few years ago now when imported boats was a new fashion. There were several keels waiting to go on whatever hulls they were, and they all had what looked to me to be short stubs of zinc coated metal of some sort sticking out. When you subtracted the nut and washer/ backing plate the bit that was left could only be described as SFA ,and it left you in no doubt that they did not pass through

You don't want to drill holes in frames, as it weakens them, the floors should be attached well to the frames. If drilling holes through the frame weakens the frame, why not make the frame bigger to cope with the hole being drilled through later? Exactly. Thats how Kiwi boats are built. The 'frames' are actually called floors or floor timbers historically and have the keel bolts through them. This ludicrous business of attaching a keel to the skin of a hull is a euro idea.,, probably evolved from the days of a substantial keelson but now devolved into this state of affairs. It make

Well Jon , they're buzzing of course and they are a great couple as you no doubt know.

Hahaha, yeah walking around salt springs whetted our appetite for a stroll around the fields at coastguard. lava fields that is.We like to do that once every decade or so. Big weekend, out to drunks for sat night, back to westhaven for kids and a day trip first thing sun morning. Two trips up the washing machine on sunday.. two! ( one set on delicate, one on agitate and spin) at coastguard I even got a tour around a certain well known crew.org short handed boat which has just changed hands.

I can't quite get that, it is really rocks, not a tow of logs or something? oops I see the answer now. I never knew that. "Waihau" is the name that rolls around and pokes the inside of my skull when I look at the boat.

I knew that area was a saltworks( around Mckenzie) and we have the saltworks buoy to the south of rangi light. ( as opposed to the salt springs land beacon to the east of Mckenzies.) I'm just curious as to the reason for the salt springs and wonder if its literally a salt spring. I suppose logically if salt water is pressurised up there through a lava cave/ tube, it'd be a good feed for salt pans. Or, I suppose you could imagine a freshwater spring at the saltworks being called that too. Sorta connected I went through a reseach phase about the wrecks in Wreck bay some years ago. ARC use

Salt Springs on the Northern side say about 1/3 of the way between the light and Gardiner gap...Why is that point called that ? We were wandering around there last weekend, but apart from looking at the beacon we didn't see anything remotely spring like . and what is the beacon for ?

66 has been the gift that keeps on giving for me.

We run a mizzen staysail on our ketch, something about where the sail is means it seems to punch well above its weight. Really easy to set and get down right in the centre of the boat... so much so we hardly ever bother with the gennaker anymore. Its our go to sail perhaps a fraction forward of the beam (if its light) through to about 165 say. 80/ 20 sail. 80 % of the result for 20 % of the effort.

Yes thats it, but I have much earlier editions. usually a tenner in second hand bookshops.That and Pickmeres atlas. I don't know anything about the later Thatcher books but I'm sure they're good. 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 f

Hey Joseph, google earth says 19 miles to whangaroa, 25 roughly into the cavalli islands area /general bay and 45 to moturoa island / kerikeri inlet, so that sounds like 2 comfortable legs or 1 longish day trip in a 26 footer to me. The cavalli area is good in pretty well all winds and is lovely. Waiiti or horseshoe on the big Cavalli in maybe N but certainly NE to E, or hop over to the mainland in N through to SW or even south. Lots of bays there from mahinipua in the corner down to say matauri. Particularly sneaky rocks? well, that one that Steve mentions around the cavallis, and the

I had a great weekend as crew . Left Noumea on thurs and arrived Brisbane on tues. sweet.

I got handed a lesson in seagull racing 2 years ago down at the Nelson lakes classic boat event. Le mans start. family friend was racing , he's in or near his 80's. ' could you help with the seagull race by running down to the boat ?' 'sure , you'll hold the boat, I'll run down , you start it and go' ' well, I was thinking , you could run down to it, I'll start it , and you go'. ' so you say I'm doing the race then?' 'Good , its all settled'.

A link to Tad Roberts site bbay, might be of interest. http://www.tadroberts.ca/

Is that right though?( I hope not) plenty of soft dodgers get through cat 1 because the structural and watertightness of the boat is dependent on the existing hatch and bulkhead etc. Most hard dodger windows won't meet the 2 square feet threshold anyway. I'm planning on a hard dodger myself and intend to use acrylic at this stage because its more scratch resistant than polycarbonate.I'll just beef it up, If a wave does bust through.. tough luck, all the hatch structure is still there. Oh.. are you opening all that out?

Thats an interesting approach to a hard dodger bbay. It reminds a bit of the general style that Tad Roberts uses on his boats. He's a PNW naval architect with some terrific designs across a broad spectrum of power through to yachts. He seems to be able to keep a very traditional look within modern functional requirements, especially for the area that he's in.

ah!.. now that I look I see. On the water, the two of them have a broader , more modern looking transoms than the Cavs . Very nice. I went to Fiji via minerva on Riada II this year and Tonga last year. She just eats up the miles.

Gotta love a Davidson.She's a later Cav 45? some extra on the stern? Recently I've been learning about chain counters. Since its me the 'provisions' that most modern windlass's have to take the sensor and magnet were not present. The magnet inserted in the chain wheel passes over the sensor and sends a message to the arcane device which counts each revolution. Who knew.... Anyway,these 'provisions' are in fact holes ,and fortunately I have a unit which will make those. Of course, it involved removal of the whole windlass lest the gearbox became accidentally pierced by the unit, but it

Philistine. I just did the same job patching where the old engine control came out.

.I've been adapting a top mount morse controller to side mount and moving the engine controls off the classic cockpit locker position to the station. I was looking for slim controllers but I could only find fat controllers, this was the skinniest fat controller I could find. Its working out well, I'm pleased. It means I can be looking at what I hit coming into the marina now, instead of grovelling down on the floor. but I like your boarding duckboards Booboo, are they bolted through as well?