Ex Machina

Band on the wharf would work …100 people allowed outside so a few socially seperate raft ups would cover a few hundred people

There must be a few boats that could host 50 people on Saturday night ?

Caught a glimpse of the nationals in bulls ? Last year when we were driving down to get the boat from Wellington . Looked bloody cool , big fleet too if you can call it that ?

I used to use a 4.2 heavy air rig on a longboard cause you can’t lean into at all as the wheels just let go . It hurts landing flat on your back on concrete . yeah a mountain board would go well on the beach for sure and also allow you to lean a bit without letting go . it was a thing years ago I remember seeing a few at muriwai , Piha and orewa

Mast base on a longboard …plug your windsurfer rig in and go …max 5-8 knots though , apparent wind is a scary thing when you start running out of car park/reservoir and are doing 30kmh

We could see a mean thunder cell for a couple of hours last night way down out from barrier/coro

Great advice mate , thanks

Whoa !

What’s the weight of the 2KW with the battery ?

Just be aware you will all have to sit at the back and hoisting the main can get tricky when crew go forward if it’s fresh or bumpy

Owner could stand on the dock to field questions ? Or in my case on the ground . definitely going to be a mad rush for us to get cat 3 in time . This will be the 2nd time I’ve gotten cat 3 for a boat that’s been an empty shell and needs 100% of the trinkets on the list …hate that list !

That looks like a neon set top box strapped to the compression post . Really liking the warm timber glow in the aft cabin

Yeah we dis-affiliated from NZTYA . No hard feelings it’s just another fee on top of the YNZ one for very little return . In the 3 years I’ve been trailer yacht convenor I’ve had no communication from them , which is fine cause they are at the other end of the country after all .

That looks like a bi-turbo elder ?

I did a halyard hole mine . Just drilled a regular hole a bit oversize then got a chainsaw file and filed it at an extreme angle to make a slot . The file works a treat makes it smooth as with no fuzzy bits

The 33 can also be configured with a lifting keel/ cassette rudder which would be a hit in Auckland if you could find somewhere to park it .

This is the 2nd time this year KD has made front page of sailing anarchy . The other boat was the Lyman-Morse 46 https://sailinganarchy.com/2021/08/26/new-33-for-thee/ https://www.lymanmorse.com/design/lm46-performance-cruiser/

We are probably coming this time …in a white boat though not a yellow one

Email the organisers about Div C , if you can round up 5 boats they will probably do it . They did have it this year but the numbers weren’t high enough .

Only seen two yachts go past this part of the coast after lockdown started …one motoring south and one large cat sailing north which has been a live aboard in Whangarei harbour for over a year now . very different to last year when I was seeing too many to count the first week of lockdown . all heading north and equal numbers of launches and yachts

Every now and again a cow or horse goes through a car windscreen and kills an occupant of that vehicle . windscreens and farm fences haven’t been modified to prevent it this happening again . Deaths at sea are extremely dramatised in the same way as shark attacks are . Offshore Sailing is way less dangerous than hurtling through pine forests on motorcross bikes or walking up Mt taranaki in shorts and T shirt . Both those examples of dangerous recreational activities have zero rules or restrictions placed on them .

5kt shitbox 😂

Isn’t that what munters do on the weekend ?

They are listed by region on YNZ website I think ?

Keen to see that too ! Outboards qualify as emergency steering but I would far rather have a rudder .