Ex Machina

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

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 .

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 ?

east cape and coromandel look like they may cop the brunt of it .

My tea leaves are showing SW going W then NW later in the week with the weather bomb staying well offshore

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 .

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 😂

+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 .

Yeah I’ve yet to see a golf course with a big galvanised gate and a keypad .

Interesting trip ! Commercial boat ?

I never had a problem until I got giardia . Don’t ever want to get a waterborne illness again

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

The pakiri sand sucker could be repurposed for weed hoovering

Hopefully they will sell more brands Of wet weather gear not just Gill . And hopefully the trade accounts don’t get binned !

Now write us a short story on how to finance a pogo 36 for beginners 😂

Yeah great concept

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

Ironic that people with boats like the top one but bigger buy hardstands and close them .

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

And Aussies

great swimming there ….

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