John B

We had a thread on this at the time, my recollection of that thread was that the boat was new and was being trialed. .

Not Lady Margaret goes through hole Coincidentally , so does Ian G

With that one I'm thinking,.... three of similar age/ type. ie classics. Looking in the classics register... The early one is Colin Wild 1928 Next is the 1940 Dick Lang , more what I regard as a standard bridgedecker style That one above I don't know and haven't read the ad. looks late '50's or 60's?

Naw , his is the other Lady Margaret.

There is a business in gabador place just before Mc Mullen and wing that strips old paint and powder coating in preparation for new. They have a specialty in stripping alloy. Pretty good . I don't think you'll be able to get that anodised . I bet you're in for some surprises when its stripped, you can't fair with filler for powdercoating( or have any old paint left whatsoever) , but you can for paint.

Clap clap clap....... thats funny.

Talk to Steve H, he set something like that up after exactly the same thing happened. Also Burnsco had something that attached to the battery terminals, but I suspect that was just a low battery alarm.

So valuable to have access to information like this . I read it in the middle of the night and need to read it again to absorb it properly , but it does strike me as the essential ocean travellers dilemma which polarises even the most experienced, whether to run off or heave to in a gale. Not easy to say which is best because different approaches will suit different boats. Was there anything else they could have done to mitigate the situation? Not intended as a criticism at all, you have to be there yourself and make your own decisions, but there's the value in this sort of thing , could t

Anyone who gets to sail with these guys is in for a fun time with really great people. I'm jealous.

Different boat this time . We were anchored by them in Port Maurelle and Blue lagoon ( Tonga) last year. Who knew.........

The hint of someone removing a mangrove a few years ago was enough to get a body charged and fined. Friends of mine with coastal property were warned and very wary. Now you see local gummint or who? steam cleaning/killing the seedlings off mud flats. As seen at mahunga drive around the pylons in the upper manukau harbour

Geeze, Wanganella banks coming up, whatever the sea state was, its going to be worse.

This is right. The tropics are between the tropic of cancer and tropic of capricorn. Subtropics for us are from Capricorn (23 point something, about minerva reef latitude), down to about the tip of Northland. 35. So defeating my own argument , I suppose what I'm being told is that if a low forms up north of NZ and below Minerva, its a sub tropical low. NOT what I thought.

Its Ok Fish , everything I read there runs through the old fart cynics filter before absorbtion.

Yes , this is basically what I thought it meant too. For it to be a sub tropical low it first had to be an ex TC. evidently not.

"A deepening sub-tropical low is forecast to move over the North Island from the north on Monday before slowly moving off to the southeast of the country". Maybe someone with more met knowledge than I can correct me if I'm wrong, but to me a sub tropical low is something that is another name for a tropical cyclone that has descended out of the tropics. Because as we know a cyclone is restricted to the tropics and technically cannot exist in our latitude. So when I see those words in a herald headline or text , as the above quote is from , my first thought is that I've missed a cyclone

Hi Matt, it is seatalk with the black, flat, moulded 3 pin connector, I don't know what NG is.

Yes, my old raymarine computer worked perfectly until it became incorporated via seatalk into a larger circuit. That has led to an intermittent failure probably due to current variation ,according to various experts ( some here). Also impossible to find , complicated by the intermittent factor. But it was good, and all I wanted and want , steer to course.

Last I heard Ian is staying home this winter.

Port Stephens NSW. ( corrected spelling). I told the owner about this thread, I could put you in touch if you'd like, WV.

Thats interesting , one of the Classics people has been restoring one in the US as well as a really astonishing commuter launch here. Same guy perhaps?

I did some weather reporting to Masina when she sailed across the Tasman a few years ago ,when she was sold to au. She's in Port Stevens.Modified Brooke design.

One of the greatest aids to navigation in recent history is google earth with your position plotted on it. Not so critical here but in the islands its a fantastic way of seeing how a reef structure works. So an Ipad or tablet with that on it is well worth the price of admission.

Jarrah was my first thought too. Go to Rosenfeld and Kitson and select a bit. Mt wellington. Perhaps a call to a wooden boatbuilder to ask about grain orientation. My gut feeling is just flat sawn but I'm not sure, maybe quarter might be better . I don't know the answer on that. It might not matter. Once you know that its not difficult , you want timber you can get the length you need out of without knots or flaws, shakes/ splits.

experiment... shows for me ,Photobucket is working again ( for how long I don't know). I always liked this photo taken when we were hove to off the Kermadecs on my mates 46 ft Davidson. Usually windy days and high sea states don't really show up that way in photos, but this kind of captures the feel eh.