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The Good Doctor will need to find another bed as we'll be goooonnneeeee........

Slopes Ski Club in National Park, not up the hill. We like it

Rinse well......

ski club - $30 per night inc food Season pass $400 odd - use it 3.5 times and you're home and hosed Boots $600-1000 Skis $ 700 - 1800 cheaper than owning a yacht

Seeing as we're about to sell the house we're at home cleaning and staging the bloody thing Uvverwise I'd be at Whakapapa

Best it for me (speshly in a sou'wester) is when the sea flattens out after you get in the lee of the Cape - then you smell the manuka

The SUPERB yellow trimaran Sad to hear

Well you shouldn't crap in it.....

The mighty Ouananiche - Andrew Johns' old boat. Made all the original sails for it. Means built late 70's - maybe '80?

AAhh...? Whiting was it? There ya go and yes, Bodacious it was. Did wonder. The skipper/navigator off Chick Chack in the Southern Cross Cup/Hobart/Auckland and I went down to Hamilton to see it in build. There was talk of a Hobart race and we were quite keen - which was pretty stupid considering what we'd just been through but nevermind..... When we saw it we kind of shrugged mentally. Boat looked like it would have been ok but there were the home grown rope clutches and what not which just didn't look quite on to it enough for us. Nice cruising boat tho...

How long's it been green? Was black (dark blue?) originally? Always been a cool looking boat

Don't recall it ever setting the world on fire. I remember the name of the thing but dunno if I ever even saw it live. This boat's got a keel with small bulblets either side. Rudder hung underneath (no cassette) . Maxwell primaries (frozen solid) with a couple of tiny Barients on the cabin top Wasn't built by the guy that did Silver Bullet? We'd made sails for his previous boat - the 53' alloy Davidson - starts with'B'.... uuummmmmm ..... bloody memory...... He came in and told us he was building an alloy 1/4 tonner. We got excited until we saw it. Looked like a blown up M20 (

If it's just for bits and pieces they'll be lifted before you get there. Don't mean to sound rude, I'm just the messenger boy... I'll ask about the rudder tho Stand by..

Don't think so If there were they'd be 35 years old......

Free to a good home. Needs work, some/most of the bog's come off the hull. Has rig/rudder/deck gear mostly Anyone interested let me know and I'll put you on to the people who can talk to your people You've got til next weekend or I believe it's off to the scrappy

Different in Oz?

Your bed's made up .... and, seeing as Daughter's gone to Uni, you can have a real bed rather than a pull-out :thumbup:

Staggers me when I read the "It'll never fly, Orville" comments. The guys designing this designed the world beating America's Cup winning boat ....... but of course yous fullas know better Carry on

Is Italy in the slightest bit interested to host it?

Just trying to organize my ..........holistic tendencies......of the alco variety.... Is there a Rum Race this year?

I've been accused of worse.........

Also we don't recommend re-cutting larger No 1 size headsails as they're not heavy enough to take heavier air. Often a #2 or #3 will be shorter on the luff too. Not worth doing unless the sail is fairly new or hasn't had much use New RF headsails are generally shorter on the foot length - usually around 130 odd% of 'J' measurement

.....that's why I said "remaining"........ We were around 20 miles from Smackwater Jack on that day.....

Anybody remember who crewed on it? Get the remaining guys back on board

Only problem with that is the beggars would probably chop the ends off your wiring and call it "hazardous"