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  1. That model lives in the NRC moorings office next to opua hardstand , I asked what it was but the person there didn't know. In a brief look at it I didn't see a nameplate on it or the case. I left thinking it was Stormvogel or an oceans 71, not that I'm up on the details of those designs.
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    wetmaps.co.nz

    No , if you zoom in on maps it shows the boundary lines. I also used paper with measurements and bearings from our land title stuff to find one and get a parameter for error in the GPS position.
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    wetmaps.co.nz

    ^ Funny, I was just doing that a couple of days ago. Just enable location , use google maps and toggle between default and Google earth, gets you close enough to find the pegs, depending on the satellites.
  4. Diesel cleaning was my first thought too , but that's well covered. Toolkit was a priority when I bought a boat, good general socket set ..you'd get by with a 1/4 drive for a new boat, ring spanner roll, pliers and vice grips, screwdriver set.crescent. Allan keys. I also have one of those small screwdriver kits with every drive head under the sun and its a go to more often than I ever thought. String , ie a roll of 3 or 5mm general purpose tie up/down stuff, other spare cordage to tie a dinghy down etc. On the lamp subject,I was given one of those 90 dollar Burnsco led spotlights...frikk
  5. Damn right about the generators.Those panels ran a freezer all day every day from 2015 to 18, winter and summer. Doing it again now after a few months off.
  6. Thanks Matt. I think I've seen 18 or 19v in the past but will check it. Burnsco have something similar in physical size buts it's 17v.
  7. Don't know why there are 2 threads, fingers and touch screen I s'pose . Can't find a delete button for the other.
  8. Flexible panels installed 2014 or 2015, 4 X 100w. Marked on the terminal box DLC, and under that, PV-DLC605. Through an mppt controller. one has died and I want to replace it , but I'm told the maximum output voltage of a new panel must be the same as existing. What is the voltage for the above? It's not marked anywhere. Is that requirement correct?
  9. How close the ribs are and general scantlings are often a result of purpose as well as the designers style or builders approach. Coastal cruiser racer lighter than a purpose built ocean boat, for example. Our boat is 4 skin to 1 inch thick, couple of stringers, no ribs. If you ever want to see belt and braces have a look on Quicksilver. Brin Wilson iirc, she has everything. Built to ocean race in anything. How thick is the hull?
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    What is this for?

    Jockey pole jockey pole jockey pole. Like erptn says. It's not a kin whisker pole. Bottom photo it's upside down, probably why they have to velcro strap it to the cap shroud.
  11. I actually think highly of Burnsco, they have a lot of good people working there, invariably experienced boaties with great knowledge. I've noticed over many years that if you meet decent people at the front of a company, the senior people tend to be the same, a good culture in other words. Perhaps this a simple situation where a competitor has done a better job and is more successful.
  12. There was a lot of discussion on various sailing websites at the time and immediately after with some top input from naval architects who worked with this type of vessel.There were serious reservations about it's real stability curve as I remember it. The other factor that resonated with me was the fact they had one epirb .Even one other signal would have at least made the local authorities take it seriously instead of basically waiting a day or two to do anything.
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    Rebecca

    I remember that. The Woodenboat workshop was in Stanley street building Friendship. Mike Knight and Colin Davidson had Rebecca, or bought her after that beaching.
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    Rebecca

    Saw a few like that on Taveuni when we sailed there in another life way back in the distant past. ..2017 or sumpin. I haven't seen Rebecca for a while, I suppose the tino rawa trust still has her. I have a couple of copies of Peter Smiths book on her, and friends owned her in the 80s and 90s, she kept on blowing up on the beach and getting a mega restoration each time. The last time was a close call when she didn't quite make the milford creek a couple of years ago, something to do with one of those pesky green port markers. Lucky escape though with little or no damage that time, maybe i
  15. When you fit the aerial be aware that it needs to be wired/routed from the aerial, not the other way. The fitting is oversize at the aerial end. Thankyou, yours sincerely Bastards International.
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    NRC on fan worm

    I did that classics regatta a couple of weeks ago and the boats were moored where the MRXs are. I was surprised to see a whole school of mixed juvenile fish in there including small parore. It was like looking at tropical fish in a big tank or like Fiji there were so many. That seems healthy to me, good to see.
  17. The book was reprinted a couple of years ago for the Ngataki launching after a refit, get yerself a copy at boat books on westhaven drive. ( no connection). If you can get onto E pier , Ngataki is 3/4 of the way along at the moment next to Riada 2.
  18. Me neither, knowing who did it. Its lifting in a case now anyway AFAIK.
  19. Ian Harvey was the boatbuilder on the EM rebuild I think, I'd be happy with that.
  20. exactly , what keel problems?. Witchdoctor? she had a full rebuild . Depending on the quality of that rebuild she could well be better than new, Like Emotional Rescue. It would show up in a survey.
  21. Akarana was given to Australia a long time before the antiquities act began to be applied to classic boats. The catalyst for that was Iorangi being packed up for export at Orams back ooo late '90s or early 2000's? She was met on the docks at Sydney and a bond posted for her return. I forget what the definition of a classic is now but its more like 1949 than 1969.49 to 1970 might be the modern classics.
  22. 6 1/2 days from the musket reefs to the ninepin in the BOI in Riada in 17, wind well ahead of the beam for 5 of those. Cruisers on the wind you could call it,often 50 or so apparent. Nothing spectacular , but a good time,just getting the job done in a 1974 designed boat full of water and fuel and 6 months worth of cruising stuff. Quite a few miles on Riada 2 up to Fiji and then Tonga another year, she has a flatter run aft and will burst away into a surf faster on a reach or run. I did a passage down to Brisbane from new Cal in 13 on Grand Prix, that was the steal of the century, she'll ju
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    Rocna anchors

    I changed from 25 years of plough and Danforth use to a Rocna 10 years ago, it's performance has been nothing short of stellar, totally trustworthy , and it's on the small side of the size threshold for my boat. It's the last of the kiwi ones as I understand it, I haven't been able to bend it. I know there was a bad batch of sub standard steel when the manufacture went to China first, but I haven't heard any bad things recently once that was addressed. Like Steve says , the new generation anchors were a breakthrough and became much easier to set, you don't need to finesse them in like the
  24. JW does some great designs but 2.2 for a family? That surprises me. A Delta is a NZ design from the 80's. Quite a big towing and sailing dinghy at 10 ft but low drag and very stable. As the kids got bigger we moved up through various tenders, got most of them still, the delta was the best, rows, sails , goes well with an outboard, tow it in all sorts of crap.
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