Freedom GBE

We are not in 1998 any more. The Unitary plan in Auckland came out around 2016 and most of it is now tested, enforcible. Unless someone complains, enforcing grey water polution from a boat in an isolated spot is probably not high on the list of priorities.

Unitary plan uses the words sewage which covers both.

No one shouits on our boat. Yea right. "FREEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOM"!!!!!

We slowly motored over the Whananaki bar. lifting the rudders as it became shallow. Could see the rocks, water is clear near the entrance. From memory there is a old concrete red marker in the harbour, left that to port and then the cockle beds came up. Walked the boat in as far as we could kicked a few stones out of the way and beached. Gave my boy $20 to race in and get some take aways on the kayak. He lost the money and we had weetbix for dinner. In hindsight should have dropped in to Tutukaka. There is a little beach just before the marina, great place to spend the night on a cat.

Nice looking Turismo with extended sterns. Twice the size of a 930. Cool. Your kids will enjoy it I am sure. Be great to have it at Northcote Point and come out and join the Multifleet. Swing moorings are getting safer. Dwindling shitters out there that were prone to coming loose, taking out others. The Harbour master has also tightend up on the amount of weight required and chain. A lot cheaper than a marina. You may need some coin for sails, it does help having a range of good sails for up wind, down wind and reaching. Can pull it up at little Shoal Bay or Okahu Bay. You can als

I went to Whananake with my 16 year old son on a northerly breeze. Thought we could maybe anchor behind the headland. Lots of confused waves and went into harbour on half tide over the bar okay but didnt get very far in, the tide rips out. We spent a night on a cockle sand bar.

Cruise ships are overseas owned. Tourist spend very little while on shore. When is the next big cruise ship coming? They sometimes leave around 8pm, Be great to do a protest on the water after a wednesdsay race this summer.

We had a blinder. New main, the hoist was like christmass. Thanks Phil for paying 50%. Delayed start no wind, fog, raft up and rumbos, woried we would even have a race. The sun came out and the start moved up the harbour into a slight seabreeze. Short course, good move by the comitee. Fantastic to see Frantic Drift, They are looking good, slightly underpowered, maybe missing a no 1 head sail? I hope they come out for the CC. Exodus sailed over us and then straight under Tigre. Attitude late for the start but then sailing higher than us. The breeze was dropping again and I start

Nice looking Cat. When the breeze comes up we crank the main on a small winch in our liitle GBE, as much as we dare to, vertical creases appear in our carbon main. Dont look at the sails, they may start to look terrible, only look at the speedo. Our dolphin striker is sleaved through the main beam and the vertical load of the mast is transferred on to the striker, there is no bend in the main beam just compression loads. It looks like yours is not like that and the main beam might bend a bit when you load it up.

Kite up running from Cow and Calf to Black rocks should be magical. Sunnies on, my good friend is making bacon and egg buns and a cold coffee. Cant wait. Need to go for a swim to clean the boat before we go.

The crew knew how to sail this boat. They were pushing the boat on purpose. So long as your sails are ballanced. Downwind reef the main down a lot and sail to the headsail, dont put the sails in self tailers. Sailing similar speeds to the waves down wind is very comfortable. Perfect weather for cats.

The Council could sell the air space above the car parking areas. However this could block the wind.

Go girls

Simply try not to look up when flying a hull. Our raft goes 10% faster and 10 degrees higher when we fly a hull. All the small tweaks give us around 1% or 1 degree, not enough to worry about unless we can fly a hull.

Doesn't feel subtropical today. I thought NZ is below the sub tropics. I thought the sub tropics are between 23Deg to 35Deg. With the earth heating is this being revised?

Iridium go was fine for emailing text, tracking and a good forecast twice a day, cant send large files and phone call wrere hit and mis. I wonder what the Volvo boats used, they seem to send good video footage all the time.

Looking forward to following this race again. I wonder if Dragon will make the start line? Looking through through the line up this is my favourite. https://r2ak.com/2018-teams-full-race/team-waterworld-impending-2/ Team WaterWorld Impending More bios Team members: Mark Dix Hometown: Seattle, Washington, USA Race vessel: Tornado Beachcat LOA: 19.8′ Human propulsion: custom pedal/prop system The first year of the R2AK was bonkers. We launched the event with 9 months notice, and other than a shared “moth to the candle” fascination with the idea of an engineless unsupported race to Alask

Keen, I like. We only got three spots on our boat. Philstar is defeintly on and probably Dambo, makes three. We need a bigger boat.

Agreed, would be great for a cruising multihul.

Good. A life raft is as usefull as an ashtray on our wooden raft.

Spec for this four stroke weight is 44kg 9.8 Toahtsu two stroke only weighs 26kg Four strokes are just too heavy

I bet you a bottle of rum that he makes it. (half a bottle).

Greg Walter that built and owns the little yellow tri at Northcote Point is famous.

Onwards and upwards. You have a great time with your family. It is good to have friends with nice boats. Well done. Bon Voyage.

Our antena sits inside clipped on the cieling, works good in the harbour. We bring it outside and tempoaraily tape it onto the side stay if we go further out to sea. One day we might have IAS if it can plot to a cheap tablet or mobile phone somehow.