John B

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..

My avatar is a sunset at Macogai island in Fiji in 2012. I crewed up there. since then Cyclone Winston went through, wiped the village out and put the clam and turtle breeding on hold. We were shocked to go back there last year and find one guy looking after the place out of one of the old leper colony buildings. I heard people were building and resettling that bay again this year .

Unless there was a really good reason for it , I would forget the flanges and welding, get one pattern sorted and have the 4 or 6 units laser or water cut including holes from appropriate thickness stainless ( 316 or best advice). Maybe some bending required. Its the fastenings in shear that do the work , those flanges are just there for sealing I suspect) . get some seperate light stainless flanges made to slot over to make the seal.

No idea what the answer is , I just know I've had nothing short of spectacular results out of 66 at Westhaven. Ruined now after 2 weeks at opua last year.That place has a tragic problem with barnacles like you would not believe.

His boats tend to have that serious expedition/ adventure look to them.

I've still got my ex Unitech boatbuilding school 15 ft stripper. cedar strip that is.

Boy , I'm not older than dirt like native .. Komutu/ Jack Logan I assume, was it a glass plate negative or were box brownies around by then ?. This one made me laugh at the time ... 06 ish. I thought it was going to keep going...

Wairiki on her first sailing weekend away after restoration, might have been the first topsail set too..

Rainbow at mahurangi. They used this or another one I took in the last boating nz ( don't give up your day job John) But it did crack me up.

a 1020 I think, ( my eyes) doing things Mr Farr didn't expect them to do. coastal classic in 12.