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Sharks
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Less food out in the deep, so moving inshore looking for a tasty yachtie's leg to munch on?
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1 hour ago, BNG said:
Yeah thats right Zozz, no junk rigged yachts there. Wonder why that is?
Must be them! Evil rich toffs and their stinkpots...
I'm sure this has been spotted over there earlier in the summer..
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6 hours ago, motorb said:
Great Barrier is part of Auckland.
The question should be why Waiheke and Rakino gets exemption from the rules....
Because rich toffs that have Riviera type stinkpots live there?
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I think the only way to stop it, which may ultimately prove unsuccessful anyway, is an all out war with $Billions and $Billions from the Government. That may mean essentially closing down the areas affected and near areas affected, so the $Billions are not just on the eradication scheme but also compensation for businesses affected from the loss of marine tourism.
But - can you see that happening with the current three headed monster running the ship? They won't even part out the $ for a decent set of Ferries for Cook Strait.
And no mods,not trying to turn this political, just stating out how hopeless it is going to be on all fronts trying to stop caulerpa.-
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I've had a mini rant on this before - you are pretty much stuck with three bands in little 'ole backwater NZ - Altex, International, & Hempels. There is also Resene's 'Durepox' which I have no tech knowledge of, and some guys know how to get hold of Awlgrip in NZ.
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With the idiots running the asylum that keep banning antifoul ingredients that actually work, I am up for buying a 'moonshine' type anti-foul with all sorts of now banned ingredients, if anyone has the brains on how to make the stuff - I don't - I think I scored 20% in high school chemistry - but, I will gladly buy it and go tell anyone poking their nose in on what is painted on my boats bottom to go f**k themselves.
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Loveworkx lady sailing a Grinde I see - same 27 footer that the American girl, Holly, is sailing round world.
Initially I thought this might have been Grant / KnotMe roving around the anchorage berating people for still using CQR anchors..... ha ha just jokes Mr CRA 😀
Then I thought it might have been some clipboard wielding Caulerpa govt. agency guy gone bananas....
But, looks like just a random bananas guy gone bananas. Scary though - not sure what I would have done, but I doubt I would have handed my expensive iPhone over to him without a fight, literally....-
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9 hours ago, harrytom said:
1840
The first Auckland Regatta was held on the day the city was founded, 18 September 1840, the day that Captain Hobson's officials raised the flag and 11 years before the first America's Cup contest was sailed in 1851.
That first regatta on the Waitemata Harbour was an impromptu three-race event that took place after representatives of Lieutenant Governor William Hobson rowed ashore from the barque Anna Watson and took formal possession of the site in the name of Queen Victoria.
A report in The New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette of 24 September 1840 said the official party rowed back to the Anna Watson and then: “After partaking of luncheon, a regatta took place between a five-oared gig belonging to the Surveyor-General and a six-oared gig belonging to the Anna Watson, both pulled excellent style by amateurs. This was followed by a match for a purse of five pounds between two whale-boats pulled by sailors, and by another between two large canoes paddled by natives.”
Weren't you there Harry? 😁
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7 hours ago, Carbon Footprint said:
Hi there. For those that might have limited cooking facilities on board… and at the request of Ex Machina…. My teenage son has gone into “business” making gimbal arrangements suitable for a “Jetboil”.
The main body is 3d printed, with steel bearing and stainless bolts. Gimbals in both axis.
fits into a Railnlazer Starport. (Not included).
https://www.trademe.co.nz/sports/camping/cooking-food/single-burner-cookers/auction-5151954085.htm
Check out the first customer review below !
Webb Chiles (famous if you prefer cruising world sailors to racing world sailors - where he is non-famous) uses jetboils on all his voyages for coffee and dehydrating food.
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Is it just me, or does it feel like the traditional yachtie Christmas / January Holidays period has been mostly sh*t sailing weather for the last half decade or more? I am thinking we should all take our sailing holidays from around Waitangi day, but of course if you have kids that's no good as they'll be back at school...
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More Fagan....
Pretty good interview from a non-sailor - Jerry Wells
The mid 80's NZ music awards clips reminded me just how big The Mockers were in NZ at the time-
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Looks like one of the fatalities not a boom, but caught on a mainsheet, then whacked head on a winch.
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1 hour ago, harrytom said:
I can get run over crossing the rd if Im not carefull,where do you stop? Accidents happen in all walks of life. work/sport
Yeah agree, and I am not saying stop sailing in boats with booms lower to the deck - but there has been a spate of these type of accidents, and just wondering if any design rule or something re the boom height - could be implemented.....
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Absolute tragedy, and my deepest sympathies to the unfortunate sailor's families.
Are we able to design rigs with booms higher than the average persons height standing in the cockpit - maybe 1.90M+ ?-
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On 1/12/2024 at 4:47 PM, LBD said:
OOOoooo ....This is gunna be expensive.... mind you that is only an estimate!
You know, I have been thinking about your post LBD - and it did give me a chuckle.
However.... I have been lucky enough to be born in a western nation, I have worked my butt off for 40 years, I have no children (none that I know of 😆 ), no dependents (though I do help look after my elderly parents), no wifey (not through trying but sailing dreams and landlubber Kiwi gals not a good mix!) and a couple months back I went to a funeral for a lady boss of mine for many years, who retired some years ago now. During the funeral, her husband died of a heart attack during the funeral service - he was 15 feet in front of me. It was surreal. It really hammered home the 'Captain Obvious' observation that - life really is short and I don't want to be lyingon my kick the bucket bed and be regretting I never did what I really wanted to do.
I have always wanted to own a Twister and even considered importing one from the UK if not going and living over there to make it happen (got an EU passport and all that) but then Brexit happened and scuppered that idea.
To sum up - big $$ in this refit, bu I am the type of person that when I want to do something I do whatever it takes to make it happen even if it leaves me poor of wallet at the end of it - and it certainly will.
When finished this won't be just the best old GRP boat of its size and design in NZ (a purely bias point of view of course!), but it will be my home for decades ahead - hope good health and time and chance permitting of course.
But - generally, if you are not psychotic like me that when you start a project you must finish it come what may, I would do everything to put the 'normal' person off going down this path. You will be light in wallet, and high in emotional stress during the ups and downs of huge refit.....well, really, it is a rebuild.
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7 hours ago, Frank said:
Pretty Much what others have said and sailing characteristics will need analysis with such a significant sail plan/rig change. (Balance and Fwd Buoyancy comes to mind.) There is a junk rigged Raven 26 in my local mooring field and it looks fine although I have never seen it sailed. As a front load before contacting the Naval Architect see if you can get a copy of the lines drawing, in my experience its usually the first thing they ask for. My wifes uncle and aunt did a 7 year circumnavigation in a Junk Rigged 31 footer , went up to Japan , Russia, the Aleutians, Alaska etc, wrote a book and all.
Yes I know both boats. 'Fantail' is the Raven, and 'Shantung' is your wife's uncle and aunt boat.
To be clear - there is no issue with the junk rig, it is just assessing the best method to reattach bulkheads or at least peruse options to perhaps slightly open up the interior without compromising the integity of the hull.
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26 minutes ago, Psyche said:
Try Brett Bakewell White, shouldnt be too expensive and whatever you pay now, it will be cheap in the long run!
I was also thinking Richard Edlin.... he is up North too, which is where my boat is
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Thanks fellas. Understood
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2 hours ago, K4309 said:
Do you want to sail it to Argentina or Arkles Bay?
As in, Cat 1 or Gulf Cruising. Will make a difference to how diligent you (or anyone giving advice) need to be, and consequently how robust the design work and physical work needs to be.
Possible round NZ, possible Offshore to the Islands and beyond, yes.
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Okay, I have basically stripped out the interior of my GRP 28 footer.
The guy I have hired to do the donkey work, while not a qualified boat builder, has worked on boats for decades, but he admits a bit of guidance required now.
If you look at the photo, which is looking for'ard from aft, he is proposing an idea to replace the four main bulkheads with crescent moon shaped bulkheads to open up the interior, plus a series of evenly spaced ring-frames in the main cabin. They would all be tabbed, filleted and glassed in of course. Those four current original main bulkheads are not inserted like I propose, they are just glassed in hard up against the hull - no fillet or tabbing.
To be borne in mind is the current main bulkheads would have helped spread the load of the bermudan rigged deck stepped mast. The new junk rigged mast will go further forward, and be keel stepped with the appropriate mast step and mast partners and ring frames constructed to take the loads (note - there are no stays with a junk rig mast). I have put a red mark where the new mast will be stepped.
I cannot consultant the man that designed this boat, an Englishman by the name of Kim Holman, as he died some time ago, so asking anyone of suitably qualified NA or boatbuilders on this forum with enough experience and wisdom to advise if a series of evenly spaced ring frames instead of your classic bulkheads - will be adequate of strength to ensure this boat's strength is not going to be compromised, while having the effect of "opening up" the interior a bit.
Thanks in advance anyone with any tips.
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4 hours ago, Bad Kitty said:
Zoz are you using them on a plotter or a tablet/iPad thing?
Tablet / iPhone - via their app.
https://mytimezero.com/tz-iboat -
I quite like the look of Time Zero, got their NZ charts for $30 0r $40 and the app seems easy to use with a good display. Unlike some Nav Apps these days, the charts are for life once downloaded, but if you want the chart corrections it's a further payment every twelve months
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I am going to suggest go to an outboard. Extra long shaft Tohatsu sailpro hi thrust, or a 9.9hp hi thrust from Yamaha, and other makes. I'd go the 6hp, as I see the Raven displacement is only 5,000lbs, and at only 26kg, you can store the outboard on the railing when on a long coastal passage, or just tilt up and leave on the bracket.
You can also look forward to half a knot boat speed gained by getting rid of that anchor under the water, called a propellor.
Just my opinion, but I also live it as both my previous two yachts, and my current one (will be when launched) were outboard powered, and as long as you get the right bracket, and the extra long shaft, and think about a petrol storage area on deck in a locker, even if you have to build one - is, in my opinion, the way to go for sub 30 foot yachts - and a heck of a lot cheaper overall when you add the purchase of a new inboard, installation and all the other crap you need to buy to make it all work.Edit:
A bonus with an outboard is that getting into an out of a marina berth is a piece of cake with the ability to turn the boat on a dime, so getting in an out of a berth is pretty simple..... as per first min or two of my vid below.
(This is my previous boat, displacement 5,500lbs at 26 feet)
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I still don't understand what f*cking idiot in this world would be travelling at 20 f*cking knots in confined waters like that.
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Sharks
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Who we talking about here? One guy who we never saw again when the political stuff was banned was that eRice fella. I don't miss him, and after initially being against the removal of political chat, I have to admit it has been a good thing for this site.
Edit: I do hope KnotMe comes back one day though.
Also back on Sharks - according to Google's AI.....In 2024, humans are estimated to have killed approximately 100 million sharks for their meat, fins, oil, and cartilage, as well as those unintentionally caught as bycatch in fishing nets.