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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.
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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.
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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 started getting a hangover.The fleet tacked east on a nock and to find breeze. Not good.
All by ourselves now, committed to this side. We noticed a nolex 22 cruising allong at twice our speed towing a dinghy on a wind line in Browns bay. Blow me down, tacked on 90 degree shift and an easy fast reach in the sun to Navy Buoy.
Downwind to Hay stack, managed to sail around a few more boats. Too easy. At Hay stack, we cought up to Wired and Ran Tan, big boats look magnificent close up, must be lots of adminsitration two handed.
Tight reach passing Motuhihi, big boats passing us again and we are trying to wind through, dipping 88s and 930s, jeez they try to make it hard. Exodus then came out of nowhere, they are fast on a reach but we managed to hold them out, just. Very happy with the result.
We didnt notice the comitee had a barge deep in the bay, we rafted up on the other side. The music was good and loud, enough to drown out the whole bay. Lots of rums and good time. Cheers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Council could sell the air space above the car parking areas. However this could block the wind.
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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.
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To add to BP's excellent info, this Low has not come down out of the Tropics like the ones we have had in the Summer. They started off as Cylcones and as they came further south, they decreased in intensity to become a Low. This one has formed and deepened close to NZ from the weather patterns around it. It is called Subtropical because of the location.
Technically, the Subtropics is the area from 35Deg to 66Deg each side of the equator. So effectively, NZ sits smack on in the Subtropics.
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?
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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.
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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
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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 Alaska, the common thread between us and the racers was a “We’ll make the parachute on the way down” strategy to making sure we were collectively ready for showtime. Year one had people building their boat on the boat ramp, looking at charts for the first time, and chain smoking in order to quit. Everyone had the jitters, but especially that guy. As soon as the starting gun went off the racers ran face first into 30 knots. It was mayhem. Boats broke, sunk, scattered across the 40 miles of saltwater everywhere between Port Townsend and Victoria’s Stage 1 finish line.
In the mayhem of carnage and shattered dreams we lost track of the most vulnerable, a lone windsurfer sailing under the enigmatic moniker of “Team The Windsurfer.” Mission control hit the big red button, sirens blared, we scrambled the air wing, and everyone scanned visible horizons and tracker screens praying for the best and expecting the worst from the cold waters and freighter traffic. We were one phone call away from putting him on milk cartons when we widened our search area to include the area in front of the fleet. There he was. We breathed easy and then gasped in a single, awkward respiratory impossibility: Mark was better than ok; he was in front, way in front. We lost track of him because he was so far in front that he was a couple of virtual horizons in front of even the raciest of the multihulls—skipping from wave top to wave top and killing it on the smallest “boat” in the fleet.
Mark is back with a new name and an actual boat. Four years after “Windsurfer rising,” Team WaterWorld Impending is heading to Ketchitown on a Tornado, a boat that would only sound like a reasonable choice for the R2AK if your last vessel was a windsurfer.
For the uninformed, Tornados are like a Hobie 16 after its third doping scandal. This 20’ roids rage of a beach cat ripped itself out of the mold back in 1967 and was the Olympic multihull for 30 years. To the catamaran set, Tornados still hold legendary status as a high powered twitchy sleigh ride that is as fun as it is upright. To this day it’s spoken about with fear and awe. Do not taunt a Tornado.
Welcome to the show Team WaterWorld Impending, please don’t hurt us, and keep your boat on a leash. -
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.
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Yes heavy, but sip much less fuel, and no mucking about working out your oil mixes, and is much less noisy than it's two stroke cousins.
As usual in boating, their are always compromises and trade-offs.
Agreed, would be great for a cruising multihul.
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No raft
Cat 4, plus jack stays and epirb I think is all.
Multi’s need a grab bag with gear in it that can be reached either way up.
Long haul and short haul are PHRF
Small boats are racetrack
Good.
A life raft is as usefull as an ashtray on our wooden raft.
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Spec for this four stroke weight is 44kg
9.8 Toahtsu two stroke only weighs 26kg
Four strokes are just too heavy
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The Bris boats actually look vaguely ok.
I think he's lost it Exlex is going to be his coffin
I bet you a bottle of rum that he makes it. (half a bottle).
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Greg Walter that built and owns the little yellow tri at Northcote Point is famous.
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Onwards and upwards. You have a great time with your family. It is good to have friends with nice boats. Well done. Bon Voyage.
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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.
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thespacebarisnotworkingonmycomputersometimes. Works fine on facebook.
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30 to 40 knots, two meter swells is not over thier limit is it? Behind the Poor Knights there would have been no wind.
The coast guard reluctantly towed us back to safety when we damaged the bow of our boat two years ago. They were not allowed to tie the tow rope to our boat for some reason. I am glad they did tow us or else we would have lost our boat. They towed us into 30knots of wind at around 15 knots of boat speed, very easy.
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Coastguard should have towed the boat to safety yesterday, I understand they are not a salvage company but I feel that this is taking it too far.
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Lead mine to multi
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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 also beach easily in little shoal bay for a day when you replace the front tramp.