John B

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.

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.

Thanks for the thread Muzza.

Me neither, knowing who did it. Its lifting in a case now anyway AFAIK.

Ian Harvey was the boatbuilder on the EM rebuild I think, I'd be happy with that.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

For a family , fuggettaboutit. Get a delta, job done.

Nothing wrong with people taking ownership of the queens chain in a conservation or maintenance kind of way ,eh. I haven't looked further into it except noting the corner section does not have a street number and the others do, interesting the little amphitheatre/ tennis court? area made from stone walls/terrace. That also lead me to think it was a public space.

We anchored in Kaiarara the same season as the ex tc that did all the damage a few years ago. When you think of all that timber washed down its amazing that there aren't more anchor hook ups that we have. Heard about a few epic ones, pulled a 20 ft forked bough up last year ourselves. But the interesting thing that happened to me was the alteration in the makeup of the silt, we had old chain just at that rusty look stage and when we hauled that up , there was a chemical reaction going on you could see , just like metal in a rust solution, vinegar or something. The old chain went bright.

Whale oil beef hooked. Explains the dagger looks when I did the road recce. I just thought it had to be reserve.

Sorry for the hijack but are you saying that that 'public' ramp and wharf /jetty has no public land access? The drive across the grass looks like it's queens chain . It actually looked like a reserve to me.

Same here, not an issue.

I agree, the OP says as long as it's not about revenue gathering. It's always about revenue gathering, Australia is a nightmare of over compliance on the water,so is the US.Give them a leg in and its empire building and justification of expense by "results". Results means tickets and earnings.Invite them in and watch them take our lifestyle from us. Just enforce the rules that exist, pull a few heads in in the demographic that needs it,we don't need any more legislation.

Flat as, bro. Unrelated, I've been for a dinghy tiki tour around your side of the inlet this morning , even found the mystical and much hidden 'public'ramp and wharf from the sea.

Er, how does a stubby little jockey pole that just makes past the caps work as a Genoa or jib whiskey pole? Poling a Genoa needs nearly as much length as a kite pole, more like say 100% of the J is good, so you can leave it in its mast fitting and the beak on the deck by the stem. With my old 70s dip pole gybe and jockey pole boat, I just use the kite pole and vector the length using the pole track, its 'kin wonderful....roll up the jib with the pole still on, set it anything from full out to 3 or 4 ft of sail to control speed. Cruising is about arriving when you want to, often that means slo

Might be useful for getting the dinghy on the foredeck.

This is why you have kiwislides and buy a reefrite furler in the first place.

My AB is a POS with bubbles at the hull ali to tubes join from its first year. , I would never recommend anyone bought one. I certainly will not own another.

When I look at those photos, the name Gladden starts circulating in the grey matter.

Those ..or rescue steel. The advantage with rescue steel,which is greasy red stuff,is you get one spot on your t shirt and its there for life. When you get home you notice theres some on the car upholstery which means its also on your jeans. Thus you have a continual reminder and affirmation of what a great job you did,

one from the wayback machine, forget where it is..