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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.
Cheers-
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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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22 hours ago, Deep Purple said:
3 navy yachts entered in Bay Week. Probably in coastal too
Good to hear.
Btw, Deep Purple one of my favourite bands as a youngster. -
Maybe it's time to bring back sailing, as in real sailing, as part of Navy basic training, including basic navigation.
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More watertight companionway work.
The cat is ambivalent to the whole project despite my enthusiasm
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New Platino video. The channel has turned off embedding but the link will take you to it. Seems to go quite in depth on how Platino was set up with steering and rigging mechanisms, drawing his own conclusions on the tragedy.
I have no comment myself as I do not feel qualified, wasn't there, and always feel a double-edged sense of sorrow for the families who lost loved ones - versus what can be learned to help mitigate a similar situation in the future, so I just provide the link for those that may be interested. -
Now that you have joined the CCC (Cat Condo Club), albeit fleetingly, you need to start a YouBoobs channel, with appropriately dressed attractive crew.
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9 hours ago, Clipper said:
I can relate, but holy sh*t thats dull. More exciting racing on a wednesday night race
But isn't that life? Lots of sporting contests that are built up to high expectations turn out duds. But, that makes the humdingers even better, especially when they are unexpected, when there is a great comeback etc. I am getting a bit philosophical now, but I find this a real concern in modern life is that unless every event, sporting or otherwise is some surreal exciting experience, then it is labelled a dud. And that is what I was getting at in my earlier T20 v Test Cricket analogy. T20 tries so so so hard to be an awesome super duper crackerjack experience - but now that the novelty has well worn off, once sees through the cracks that the game itself is the dud because it has tried so hard to cut out all what people accussed of being the 'boring bits' (ie the period between the 15th - 40th over in a traditional 50 over one day game) - but its the boring bits that make the exciting bits even more exciting when they do happen - but, as in real life - not every day can be a life changing experience , most of us are on rinse and repeat in our daily lives, and often sport is no different,
But, now I am off to see my shrink....😄-
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They are making the same mistake with AC as they are with T20.
Old AC in the relatively slow monohulls was like watching test cricket, and the frantic tacking and sail changes as you round the mark were the burst of energy like someone hitting a six and taking a wicket in a Cricket Test used to be. It grew on you, and judging by the amount of non boat people right up to the early 2000's that would watch it, was very popular.
However, much like T20 cricket, AC is now just extreme commercialised fast food crap that I wouldn't give a rats backside if I never saw it again, ever.-
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1 hour ago, harrytom said:
So boats are training grounds for the big tune orcas chase.
It appears so...
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I subscribe to NYT, and came across this interesting article this morning, and thought it may be of interest. PDF attached because of course the article in the online paper proper is hidden behind a paywall.
Off Spain’s Coast, Orcas Ram a Sailboat - The New York Times.pdf
Future of Auckland Aniversary Regatta
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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...