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28 minutes ago, CarpeDiem said:
Smack bang in the middle of the Auckland to Tauranga. Which is a great race where many boats with PHRF could also be.
Such impeccable planning.
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
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On 18/11/2022 at 9:44 AM, waikiore said:
I think that was a Johnson Birdsall not Beau -get a survey done.
I worked with Johnson many years ago , I think he would’ve been a kid in the 70s
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2 hours ago, waikiore said:
No mention of insurance requirement ...... just saying 😏 As the extremely strong Reactor slid into the 60' tri
I’ve seen a Davidson 35 slide into a 60 foot tri , heaps of room too . Davidson got a bloody nose and tri got a big scratch .
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Being country bumpkins we are going for the cheap accomodation at Wynyard quarter 😂🤣. But honestly , good on them for trying to breathe some extra life into yachting . Needing a PHRF cert will restrict the numbers and is a bit of a dumb move , or cunning plan to get the cert numbers up and more participation in PHRF only events ?
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15 hours ago, Zozza said:
I heard there is an extra-tropical’ cyclone potentially die to hit North Island next week….
east cape and coromandel look like they may cop the brunt of it .
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2 minutes ago, Black Panther said:
Next week is not showing a lot of improvement
My tea leaves are showing SW going W then NW later in the week with the weather bomb staying well offshore
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3 hours ago, chariot said:
Looking at Metvuw, I don't know why you would bother heading away on Wednesday. Only a small window then the next system arrives and it's a real humdinger.
Dunno if metvuw has updated yet but windy is now showing it missing us by quite a bit . North of Auckland that is , bay of plenty/east cape might get a hosing .
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1 hour ago, Cheap Transport said:
I'm sure it's been asked multiple times but I'm looking for the above, preferably sourced locally. Fairly simple set up of B&G Vulcan and DST Triton package - I'm simply wanting to link my older Navico 300c tiller pilot (same as earlier TP32) to steer to a preset waypoint. I sailed on a R930 with this exact set up so I know it can be done, just need a converter.
Would this do the trick?
If not, recommendations please.
I have one of those if you want it ? Funnily enough I got it off the owner before you of meanstreak . It was free with a furler so happy to pay it forward ….minus the furler 😂
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1 hour ago, Cheap Transport said:
We've come home after a week in Coro. Had never been to Te Kouma before (only been a boat owner for 18 months, 9 of which was a re-fit). Blown away by the beauty of this place, especially so close to home in the Weiti River. Came back on Sunday with the easterly pushing us along nicely, top speed of 10.5 with the number 2 up, surfing down a few swells much to the delight of my kids (not so much the Mrs😅). Will definitely be back there soon. Favourite spot - Rangipukea Island
+1 for Te Kouma and surrounds . Recently picked a boat up from there and was also blown away , we will be going cruising there when we get a caravan .
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7 hours ago, aardvarkash10 said:
Golf courses bring several positive social impacts including large areas of green space. They also generally provide access for casual/non-member players Same argument for team sport facilities eg rugby / soccer fields. Cost of entry is comparitively low
Marinas almost be definition detract from the environment and hte cost of entry (go buy a sizable boat) is comparatively high. Useful, convenient for the user, and valuable, but still not obviously a public amenity. Before I owned a yacht I no more thought of marinas as a public benefit than I thought of banks as socially responsible providers of affordable credit products.
Yeah I’ve yet to see a golf course with a big galvanised gate and a keypad .
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14 minutes ago, Steve Pope said:
Made it around the top, Whangarei to the Kaipara with a weather stop in Whangape and to pick up crew for the run down to the cross the Kaipara bar.
Interesting trip ! Commercial boat ?
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54 minutes ago, Black Panther said:
I don't do anything. Never had a problem.
I never had a problem until I got giardia . Don’t ever want to get a waterborne illness again
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Slight drift but we treat our home tanks with this stuff and I would use it on a boat tank if I had one . I don’t like bleach and I don’t like waterborne gut bugs . Our water doesn’t smell because it’s rain water so it only goes through a .5 micron paper filter for bugs ….if I had a fusty boat tank a charcoal filter would sort out any flavours including chlorine/garden hose vinyl flavours from marina supply .
https://www.mitre10.co.nz/shop/pour-n-go-water-tank-treatment-2-litre-clear/p/109787
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The pakiri sand sucker could be repurposed for weed hoovering
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Hopefully they will sell more brands Of wet weather gear not just Gill . And hopefully the trade accounts don’t get binned !
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5 hours ago, DrWatson said:
I always wanted to but didn’t (and couldn’t) sail.
My best friend bought a 727, put her back together and launched her.
I didn’t want to race; too stressful I felt. But I ended up as regular race crew. I (we) learnt fast. By the Second season I was comfortable enough to skipper for a race with the other regular crew member and pick up a third spot to keep our series alive when the reg skipper and owner couldn’t make it over the bridge on time for the start. We took home the Richmond wed night g division trophy that season.
My advice would be - go to the Richmond and find a boat where you can crew. Regularly. Bring beer, be nice and go racing. Listen, ask, watch, do, learn. It may not be „your thing“ but you will learn damn fast. After 3 months, if you still like it buy a sailing dinghy and go out sailing every spare moment. you don’t need something flash. And keep crewing.
If it works out well, in 15 years you’ll be effectively single handing your new Pogo 36 through one of the world’s renowned tidal current passages into 25knts in the dark while your partner and toddler puke their guts out below…
Now write us a short story on how to finance a pogo 36 for beginners 😂
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Yeah great concept
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18 minutes ago, Psyche said:
My question is who and where are our advocates when these policy decisions are being made?
I think maybe that the people who have the sway in Auckland are wealthy enough that these issues don’t affect their yachting ? I suspect that people who could sway the swayers or make a noise about the lack of swaying make and supply stuff for the swayers boats or sail with them . The pointy end of the Auckland fleet is full of captains of industry who as a collective could hold a lot of sway …if they wanted to
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30 minutes ago, Psyche said:
I hear ya, we've been seeing it happen for years. It seems that the powers that be think that yachties cruise around in boats like this
when the reality is that most us are closer to:
Ironic that people with boats like the top one but bigger buy hardstands and close them .
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1 hour ago, harrytom said:
Ok boys n girls now we have a problem. If a sea snake is protected as it arrived under its own steam,does that now mean Fan worm/asian paddle crab/invasive wedd at Gt Barrier protected??
It’s not really an invasive species though ? No more than yellow/bluefin tuna , mahi mahi , sunfish , wahoo and the odd tiger shark that come down on the warm currents .
the other buggers you have mentioned are “invasive” and more than likely hitched a lift in ballast water and on hulls
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9 hours ago, Guest said:
Btw,CHopped strand is for swimming pools and compost bins….
And Aussies
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22 hours ago, FourSeven said:
Recently arrived on a mooring off Ongare Pt, north of Katikati, near the top end of Matakana Is.
great swimming there ….
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It was the first “storm warning” I’ve seen issued in the marine forecast by metservice for this area . That was for colville to bream head , 40-50 knots gusting 60 and 50-60 gusting 70 at colville
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Yep 10k PA for our club
The Harbour Classic - 1st April
in RaceTalk
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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 the hell wants to measure all their sails for that …and pay $70 for the pleasure .