John B

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.

You'd never do a tricky pass in first time at night ,...But we left an island in the dark in the Lau last year. 2 boats , we waypointed the hazards on our way in and ran tracks. Between the 2 boats I think we were running 6 different chart systems including Google earth. 3 miles across the lagoon and then a pass. The reason you do it as you know is you need to time your arrival at your destination and because it was 70 miles we had to leave early. We had intended to do a new pass ( to us ) into Vanua balavu so that drove the timing, that had to be in daylight. We didn't have problem wit

Does it have running back stays, you can get some nasty rig pumping issues when you set a staysail without them.

So do I. It's for a heavy weather staysail and another gear down when going to storm sail.

A Gulf 30 , its gone now, Fish. Yes he was a great kiwi hull designer, mates still have a 42 footer that has been around the world.

Well done , I just got a memory flash of my father and I rescuing a blue guy clinging to an upside down tinny on an autumn afternoon off Browns bay in the 90's sometime. 2 boats out for a late season sunday sail. As I said , he was blue when we got him, he'd lunged for his hat and flipped the boat, which was still anchored. Grey boat on a cold grey day, he was really hard to see, but my old man spotted him from his Birdsall and we went backin our boat when we saw him turn around. We got him aboard one of the boats somehow and I righted the 12 footer and bailed it. My old man took him

Noel is a great boat builder and a better sailor. Might even be a Blue water award recipient if my memory serves me correctly. Masina first and then Sina. If I had the everdure I'd use it, if I didn't I might brew up some thinned epoxy, because there's always a set of that sitting waiting.

We very successfully hove to( or close to it ) in a 46 ft Davidson fin keeler in about 2011. I think 50 knots would be fair but as David says its not the wind , its the monster waves. A real heave to is when you make a slick to windward, I think we might have been technically fore reaching making about 1. 5 knots IIRC, but either way, functionally it was really nice. When it settled the next day we'd spent about 16 or 18 hours in a patch of water about 20 miles square with one 'tack'. The issue ( in retrospect) was we'd sailed onto the Colville ridge , 70 miles off the Kermadecs, whe

Looks good, this why you were right to buy a quality build in the first place. You get get out jail free cards like this. You can thin west but everdure is already thinned, so despite the fact the poisons that made it such an effective killer of mould and boat builders are now removed, I would probably use it myself. I'd also be looking at that wee triangle of space and seeing where that went as it has the potential to be the classic rot pocket. If it's just a blind hole I would fill it with epoxy or epoxy plus blocking. I personally would and have replaced stuff like that with some timbe

Hahahaha, yes. I sympathise with the tone of the thread but as I've said many times before, some seasons they're on and some they're off and the other guys are on. So its about interpreting and figuring out which of the forecasters are on the money for any given period. Thats a nasty front coming now, it might be downright horrible this weekend. for example. Or , it may just make life in wellington miserable and we'll be fine. But I'll be in a car so I don't think I'll even look very hard.