John B

Hahaha.

Get it bushed or welded up and redrilled to the correct clearance.

Time for a new player and industry shakeup. There are a lot of wealthy boat owners in yacht clubs and pretty soon those clubs are going to be wondering why they can't get racers or even members.Thats the way its headed right now. The ostensible reason for the issue is that American/Caribbean disaster a few years ago where entire fleets and marinas full of boats were lost .That has caused many of the worlds underwriters to drop out. The ones left have tightened up and pick and choose. Topsail through Baileys told us not to bother applying because the boat is too old. Idiots...they'd rather in

Minerva reef is unreal, been there 4 times now and we were there 3 weeks ago or so. People I've spoken to say there are regs to prevent a trip there and back without clearance. You might still get away with the ole blown offshore and had to fix something trick. Or not. I know it's not relevant to the wanganella banks trip but this fixation on cat one is silly. Cat 1 is a doddle, you should have everything thats required anyway. Do you know what you're doing? Then you're going to get cat 1. Contact an inspector, develop a working relationship so he knows that you do know what you're doin

There's one sitting outside us at Denarau now, whole lot of red on the side . Same?

Yep, we visited Ida a couple of weeks ago, and Daring last week. He and Ian and Blanche Cook are responsible for saving and acquiring/stabilising quite a few of our classics.

When I use the location and toggle between maps and the Google earth program I use for navigating the error on the day is the same... logical I suppose. But that error can often bearound or up to 6 metres. Which of course might mean it's 3 metres away or none or 6 metres.Which is just another little beware reminder about GPS and micro managing your actual position when on the water and threading the reefs. Oh Yadua,what a clench you were. Anyway , as I said earlier, using maps for the peg location plus eyeballing the error on the day relative to a known peg position was useful, found all sor

Ah yes, those were the days. Eu de briteesh permeated into my clothing. It was a heady blend of decaying connelly leather, a hint of the highest octane fuel I could afford plus the smoky aftertaste smell of singed 30 weight motor oil as it snuck past the shrunken rope rear main seal (particularly on fast right hand corners) and dripped onto the exhaust. I'm pretty sure it was not irresistible to women.

Sealestial out at watchmans island is an oceans 71, and they were production run developments of Stormvogel. The superyachts of their day. But the varnish and coaming style etc all points to Stormvogel herself , eh.

I owned a British car which didn't need seperate servicing schedules. It had a total loss and auto rust proofing oil distribution system which simply required topping up the engine each third time you gassed up. Slick.

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.

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.

^ 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.

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

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.

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.

Don't know why there are 2 threads, fingers and touch screen I s'pose . Can't find a delete button for the other.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.