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Very cool place ! Was there in 2000 and word got around there was a 6 metre tiger shark in the “lagoon” ….most of the locals jumped in to have a look

Yep it’s a rip . Would far rather that $35 went into grassroots , regional youth sailing .

I don’t know about demographics in other parts of the country but up here the fizz boat boom seems to be driven largely tradies . Our club is right next door to the local outboard boating club which is one of the three major launching areas in our modest sized “city” the value of the boats combined with the value of the vehicles launched there on a busy weekend would probably be equal to the value of the pointy end of Auckland’s racing keeler fleet

I’m not currently with my stack pack , but have just been reading this interesting discussion on sailing anarchy . https://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?/topic/222005-mainsail-boompack-for-single-handed-racing/

Yeah well matakana is just up the road

1.2 million is super cheap for that many berths ….I thought it cost that much just to talk about expanding a marina

Bit of a drift ….probably the most famous GOP yacht ever built

+1

Read down this thread to KMs post

And one of my daughter getting glamour photos . Pre start of the Route66 , photo by Ocean Patrice

The mighty Rum Jungle . E6.5

Looks like a beast , see how you go with it , we have tweakers for ours cause it really twists off as soon as you crack the sheets a bit . You should be able to match the wind speed up to about 6-7 knots and then start ripping stuff off the deck above that !

The top is where it gets interesting . It’s going to have an 18ft skiff style box where it slots in from aft rather than a drop-in style box . Rudder will have a socket on top to plug a carbon tube tiller into , we have that system on the Shaw and love it . The idea is to be able to take rudder and tiller off at anchor or at the dock to free up cockpit space and prevent any expensive accidents after a few beersies . I couldn’t tell you the percentage of balance forward ...the pic shows the current rudder in blue , the Shaw 750 rudder in yellow and the new rudder in red which is way more f

First step of the new rudder done .... aircraft wing style of construction . carbon foam sandwhich panel laid up in the garage then sent to the CNC dude . next step is to wrap it in some funky sh*t then tip in some 2 part expanding foam . The foam will be sanded back to the ribs and then then it will get skinned carbon . design and construction is being done by my mate Scott who is handy with a computer and carbon . Check his Ross 490 rebuild here on creworg and in boating Nz The rudder will be hanging off a second generation E780 that we are bringing into this century

Scott tempesta from sailing anarchy haas bought it and he bought pionneer too as a restomod

And aah , I did the above for inspection and they didn’t get inspected after a sleepless night hoping the new main would would pass !

It’s actually a valid safety measure for most of the pacific and Caribbean plus med where there are small airstrips/airports often right on the shoreline with little or no air traffic control . Super yachts hang around these sorts of places waiting for guests or dropping them off . most owners wouldn’t give a rats whether the light was on or off or even up there .

Had to change the bulb in one of those 3 times over the course of 6 months . Feckin scary job , 160ft mast with a 7ft wand on top with the masthead light on top of that wand . bosuns chair was crudely tied to my waist with sail ties so I could climb up onto masthead with it still stuck to my ass . Before climbing up you have to hang by one hand onto the wand and pull enough halyard out of the exit to allow you to stand up on the masthead . once up there and standing on a space just big enough for two feet you had to reach above your head at maximum stretch to unscrew the r

It was a rugged night last night . northwest to southerly change with mondo thunder squalls

Just found this pic of it racing the Shaw 9 “Karma police “ in Norway

https://www.tradeaboat.com.au/details/995-2009-elliott-9ss

Desiderata and Desiderata ll. Have seen at least 15 boats called that

Yeah working on it ...got told off by the missus actually for only thinking up rude names for the boat . Cant keep original name as it’s already registered with another boat which buggers up getting a PHRF ....might call it “Karen fatuwoke”

Great boat name right there !

There’s a tinny up here called “bin laden” can’t get more with the times than that . in the owners defence , there is an image of a snapper tail poking out of a fish bin