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Y'all lucky buggers making me jealous...the wind last couple days would have blown me all the way north with joy....but I'm stuck at GH Marina trying to get the last job(s) done so I can go blinking sailing...still, maybe I'll miss all the anchorages filled with the Riverias manned by Captain Piddlemarks by the time I do get going

Get ready for many more Outboard and Diesel Engine problems? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/458668/what-is-the-real-cost-of-a-switch-to-biofuels

Saturday nights I thought Anyone back to Fagan....tough little boat, good bloke, will be following with interest

I see he has what looks to be the Series Drogue chain plates bolted on aft

Oh yes I remember." What about "Ready to Roll'

Definitely off, not that I would have made it anyway

Nah not sailing yet BUt dont ask me technical questions about the Pelagic as I have no idea. Electronics are not my thing

Cheers Scarecrow. Well, with that review, I'm wondering if I should keep it and get over my 'anti-tech' attitude....

I am selling my (unused by me, used a couple times by mate I purchased it off) Pelagic autopilot. See 'Classifieds' for details, price, and contact info

Never used by me, stored inside for the two years I have owned it. I've got two Simrad AP's and now a brand new self steering windvane, so I am offloading this. Purchased off a friend who was selling his boat, and took all the fancy gizmo's like this off. This will cost you USD $1,005 / NZD $1,478 currently to purchase and import. My price is NZD $950 cash or internet bank xfr -- that is over NZD$500 in saving, and without the wait . Comes complete with manual - see pics Plenty of info on the internet about these Autopilots First in best dressed. if you are an out of

Unless you are a Crewdotorg member, what other sailors and boaties would even know that a popular cruising destination such as Tryphena has been banned from anchoring? 99% of people are going to turn up and be confronted with locals roaring out to them and giving them a serve? That will just raise tensions and cause incidents through utter lack of communication. Someone tell me I am wrong....happy to hear all sides.

Completely unenforceable, as mad as Hone's checkpoints

Delta sailing dinghy? Has it been double vaxxed? ....ah yeah awful joke but I do tell awful jokes as a pastime.....

It is a big 'un but surprisingly quite light....

I have purchased this meaty alloy dock cleat, to enable me to easily put on a spring line to help me with single handed docking. However, if the diameter of the bolt holes is 13mm, what bolts am I supposed to use when it appears there is no M13'a...all the websites I got to for fasteners jump form M12 to M14..?

I can reef my sail in 1.5 seconds The joys of junk rig

My great uncle fought in Monte Cassino. Never forget when he told me he was one second talking to his soldier mate right beside him, and looked away for a second and looked back, his mate was slumped backwards with a bullet in his head.

Who here cuts through the gap between Cape Brett and Piercy Island...

I can't think of a more awful river to live-aboard....go a little further north and annoy BP 😁

On the strength of the video testing I saw from SV Panope, I purchased a Viking 10. It is same weight as my Excel, but is bigger footprint with a hoop (I will take a comparison photo later today). The Excel has never let me down, but I like to try new things, and if Cindy ever lets us loose this summer, I aim to test it out around the Gulf and possibly up North

If we ever get out of lockdown, I will be keeping my boat at GH, so would like a look, even though I cannot afford the B&G systems at this time....but one day I will be able to afford at least a portion of them, so will be fun to have a look

MX Mariner appears only to be for Android. My apple phone is of course IO$

Well that's the answer then! Redirect the Waikato pipe line to all the estuaries that have the fan worm, and that'll kill 'em off. Us dorklanders can die of thirst...or go crack open a cold amber one.

Yeah, sounds like UK , part 1 register (not the Small Ships Register) is adopting almost identical rules to Jersey. Very easy from what I have read, just need a tonnage survey, and get an agent to open a UK company - which gets around you having to live in UK