Ex Machina

Cool looking boat …what is it again ? Have a similar looking boat at our club , a Beale 780

Seems like stuff is reporting the same incident as two boaties .wasn’t It was all the same incident ?

Just Bloody amazing . Props to the crew of Te Mana and northland trust helicopter ….and that guy on 888

Thanks for pointing that out , learn something everyday ! . The whole situation is quite distressing and the way it unfolded could not be predicted .

Te Mana has launched a boat by the looks of it on AIS I would be able to see it from here if there wasnt so many sheds and sh*t flying through the air

We are only getting 50 knot gusts here now two hours north , so if what we had earlier happens in Auckland it will be quite an event

Coromandel will absorb it for those areas but Te Aroha will get absolutely nailed once it gets a bit of southing

You’ve put a bit of weight on there

Spencer point ?

That’s an interesting option . The boat has a heat exchanger type tank that’s only configured for shore power so could be plumbed in to a diesel heater I think .

I’ve been Looking at ducted exhaust LPG water heaters like the suburban and camec style etc . Anyone here got one of these ? And do you have the tankless or tank version ? The fitting options seem more flexible than a classic style califont and probably easier to meet certification criteria too.

Isn’t there two ? Beforehand and after ? The multihull club is reviewing the PHRF thing so hopefully they drop that requirement .

All good points ! My argument is those core of boats that do the long races and short handed series are very well catered for in terms of events year round . They very rarely enter the soft core races like R66 , coastal or bayweek etc so I doubt they will lose sleep over missing the harbour classic . There’s literally hundreds of race boats in Auckland that just club race and don’t do any major races or events . The Harbour classic just might get a lot of them out of the marinas on that day . I still think PHRF is a bloody facepalm and a YNZ rort for such a short race , who

Yeah -na , the Auckland Tauranga boats are hardcore and wouldn’t feel like they are missing something would they ? ….north head to Torbay and back ? And it’s more than PHRF it’s cat3+ too

I worked with Johnson many years ago , I think he would’ve been a kid in the 70s