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I thought those S&S 24's would have sailed well in a 30+ knot headwind well reefed down? Not spectacularly fast, but solid and dependable? I know of one that sailed from here to the Caribbean via Australia , South Africa so there must be a bit about them as solid little pocket cruisers. I am currently selling my inboard on my new-to-me 26 foot pocket-cruiser, and am looking at a 6hp four stroke extra long shaft as a replacement - mainly because they weigh a good 15kg less than the 9.9's. I've owned a 6hp before on my previous boat, but might indulge in remote control this time. The

What freaks me out about fossil fuel heating on a boat is the stories you hear of sailors, sometimes whole families, that died inside their boat due to carbon monoxide poisoning. I know you can get alarms, and you are sill supposed to have a hatch or boat porthole / window or two open at all times when heating the boat - but still....

Engine is coming out of my boat early Nov, I will be putting it on sale to all comers at that time via Trademe. Until that time I am willing to negotiate with a potential buyer from Crew.org first. I am a no BS straight up bloke, and I can advise this engine is in excelelnt shape - only selling as I have no interest in having a diesel aboard my pocket cruiser - and instead I am going outboard motor - but if you are like 99% of other sailors in NZ then this lightly used diesel inboard engine could be exactly what you are looking for. I have all receipts, including from those from a ser

The nav apps on tablets are fantastic, and the charts so ridiculously cheap to buy compared to chart plotter charts, that it is >. However, I couldn't see my tablet in the cockpit due to the glare in any sort of sunshine or even one of those half light / half cloudy days. When someone invents a tablet you can actually see outside, then they are going to make a million billion zillion $bucks.

I thought I was going to be ogling a latin sailing babe with big knockers

So, apart from the few that may have lived out of NZ for a reasonably lengthy period of their lives between 20 and 65, then there is no issue for the vast majority, and no having to step foot back in the country every 26 weeks. Kind of means issue over.

And yes I know the Panama papers was about foreigners using NZ as a tax dodging loophole, and not by NZ'ers themselves to tax dodge, but it still wasn't a good look.

Fish, Grant, you guys are really that paranoid? I know the Govts GCSB shennanigans was as dodgy as a car salesman and the govt is a snoopdog piece of sh*t, but really - you really think they would give enough of an eff to go through data bases with their 'super duper billion dollar computer' (hey that rhymes) to check on oldies that might be spending too long overseas enjoying their golden years? If that is the case this country is really turning to the brown stuff., Actually, what they should be doing is using this super computer to track down and whack a tax bill on all those companies

Exactly. Anyone that asks for their super to be put into an offshore account direct is just asking for trouble. Let it keep going into your NZ account, and due to internet banking you can access your money with a click of a mouse anywhere in the world. End of story.

i am still missing something here. What would give the government cause to all of a sudden check if Mr and Mrs Pensioner are physically living at the address domiciled on their records on a suspicion (why would they suspect anyway?) that you are out of the country for too long. The only way to do it would be for them to physically come knocking on your door. I'd be massively surprised if they are monitoring data of pensioners passports at various ports and borders and sending that off to some government office that has been set up to try figure out which oldies have spent too long out of

If you have a NZ domiciled address, and a NZ Bank account how in the heck are they going to know? Do you really think they are going to start sending out hit squads to catch out oldies that are sailing off blue and yonder and collecting their pension (that they darn well have earned the right to receive in my opinion). As someone said earlier - say nothing.

...no threat to NZ

Hey Fish, thanks mate. Look, I probably overstated the "going greenie" thing. And you speak a lot of truth. The oil and carbons burned to make batteries, solar panels, stainless steel etc etc, I mean, really, not only does the money not add up for me, to be honest the green thing does not add up either. I mean, look at the biofuel situation... purportedly the amount of fossil fuel burned to clear enough land and the machinery required to then make the biofuel itself in enough quantities, actually burns more f/fuels than it is supposed to save!

That's all I got. No details yet.

Wheels, mate, thanks for those battery tips. I had no idea, and would have been a dope and just believed the ah rating advertiesed, but now I know better. Thanks again mate.

Crikey this thread took on a life of it's own. Some really interesting stuff though, and glad it got people to offer up some real interesting ideas on the variuos methods to help charge batteries. That watt and sea is damn expensive and I doubt worth it on my traditional long keeler where 6 -7 would be the upper limits of SOG in the right conditions. I'm at the point, where as much as I desire electrical propulsion, even a Torqeedo 2R doesn't quite stack up with the amount of weight you need added with the batteries (a 24v "Power 104" lithium battery offered by Torqeedo while light in wei

He was taking the mick. Wrapping panels around a mast is ridiculous.

Ha ha. Mind you, this fella is wrapping them round his boom!

Here is a guy who is using a Torqeedo 2 tiller version on 5000 lb yacht, which is onnly about 500 lbs less than mine. He uses two 120ah batteries -- which I would have thought is a little light in ah -- and he also "cheats' as he charges his battereries via shore power Still, an interesting read http://barnaclebillholcomb.blogspot.co.nz/2012/08/torqeedo-update.html http://barnaclebillholcomb.blogspot.co.nz/2012/11/torqeedo-update.html

I guess If I know I have eff all range, then I will only use the motor when I need it. If I keep the diesel I will probably motor quite a bit more as it's there and I am inherently a lazy basterd, I know I will use it.... I guess you sort of adapt to what you have. My thinking is, if there is wind I should be sailing, and I just use the e-outboard to get in and out of marina where you must have auxiliary power. However,,,,if the wind craps out some sunday and I am 30nm from home then I could well be sending a text to the boss along the lines of "see you tuesday not monday" Always a bloody

Yep the range is crap compared to a diesel. It all depends what I can live with. You pays yer money and makes yer choice I guess... I think the 2 hour range is at full throttle...if you go half that, i.e about 3 knots, then you can travel many more hours before the batteries crap out

A 205 watt hard panel, 24v, measujres 1581×809×40mm from a particular local retailer. I'm thinking of something similar to what you see aft on the boat in this pic

As opposed to inboard electric engines, outboards electric engines are not cost prohibitive to me, such as the Toqeedo 2R with remote control. http://www.torqeedo.com/en/products/outboards/cruise/cruise-2.0-r/M-1230-00.html If I l got one I would i'd want to keep the 24 volt system, required for the e-outboard, separate from the 12V house system. The solar panels for the house system are going to be flexible and mounted on deck and / or coachroof. My boat is only 26 foot, so I don't have a lot of room for panels other than the 12v flexible solar panels on deck and coach-roof for the