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Ex Machina

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  1. Yeah or bail from Auckland . Plenty of yachting in the regions just not as many boats or black sails .
  2. Yeah I remember those days too …you left out the bit where you died of silicosis , asbestosis , lung cancer , random types of cancer or a combo of 1 or two of the above . K3409 and Carpe Diem are missing from that picture . Need a couple of blue hats with tablets peering into the hole
  3. I remember this one caused a stir because they filmed themselves “riding” the shark as they towed it to shore . https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/waiheke-shark-may-have-been-record-great-white/B7AZPKOIOSEIQXHFDNZHC4WBKQ/ I used to regularly surf not far from tipitai on the north head and we used to sh*t ourselves to be honest . Most of the northern harbours and inlets on the East and West Coast are nursery areas for GWs .
  4. Or the collective gasp when a great white is spotted in the Waitemata . They’ve been breeding in Auckland since the beginning of time
  5. You mean the CBD one in the early 90s ? With the container ship plugged in providing power to restaurants and the like .
  6. Where can the coastal classic start be shifted to that’s safe from poo ?
  7. What about the 4hp outboard on my raceboat ? That got your ass to Auckland for the last coastal ! But yeah I’ve had the same model yammy 8hp with high thrust prop on a previous boat . Did multiple 12-14 hr trips to Auckland and it never missed a beat . Also a bonus is Yamaha parts service , they are very good .
  8. Yeah dunno if you want to do ass dragging and porpoising in a 111 ft cruiser ? You’d have a massive interior tidy up to do when you got to your destination .
  9. Seems like it was a medical emergency and mast was entire before tying up to the ship , broke the top off from hitting the ship by the looks .
  10. Don’t know the boat but it looks like a later model Beale 30 something with the single continuous window
  11. Then there’s insurance ….
  12. Ex Machina

    Paint

    Yep got it below the waterline on a trailer yacht . It’s apprently 12 years old and still looks like new . Also have it in black on the gennaker prod and on the rudder too . I didn’t apply it myself I have a clever mate that’s good at that sort of thing , he has a trick of mixing fairing compound into the primer coats so it works as a highbuild . 2 years out in the weather and the prod still looks like new .
  13. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/el-nino-incoming-nzs-climate-to-take-rapid-turn-within-weeks/XQ7ZEZVPEFA3LMWRWRNVWZ6KZY/
  14. Yeah sorry It was the 13hp engine and it’s still pop popping
  15. This topic reminds me of the time we nearly ended up on the rock wall behind the squadron inside the marina ….Y11 with an 18hp and 30 knot SW .
  16. I got lambasted on SA by a Texan boatbuilder for using the term pushpit . Apparently they called it the aft pulpit/aft safety rail or some other things. He really hurt my feelings
  17. Uk sails Whangarei was in Christchurch doing clears last week for that cat that came out of Davie Norris shed recently . Shame you hadn’t tee’d up with them being in town .
  18. Used Jamie Newcombe twice earlier this year , very good .
  19. Had a similar dilemma to you . We have a big blended family of 8 with 3 daughters. Started out Looking at kiwi boats but the standard open quarter berth arrangement doesn’t cut the mustard in the privacy department nor does the one shower , one loo right next to the v berth . Went to counselling and got over the hump of only looking at kiwi boats and started looking at French boats , old ones . Wanted around 40 but needed up with probably the oldest bene 50 in nz . It checked out sound but needed a new gearbox , put a new one in myself over 6 weeks and found plenty of other small thing
  20. Yeah Norwoods . Same engine is in kubota tractors and hitachi mini diggers
  21. Yep 1982 , originally called counterpoint .
  22. I know an older chap who had the first one , think it’s now rocky ? I will ask him when it was built/designed
  23. Any idea why V5 didn’t do the transpac this year ?
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