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Well organised race, perfect course. Prizegiving was fun dancing girls and all. Thoroughly enjoyed the whole night and great way to end this years racing. Thank you to the organisers, fantastic job.
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First join the coastguard and do a day skippers course where you will very likely meet up with similar people.
I met a Texan when I did my Boat Masters course who bought his boat of trademe, just hit the buy now button, then bought a ticket to NZ and sailed it out by himself . (Don't do that please)
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Nice carpet.
IMO crushed by the windward board flying a hull, on the angle of death, over waves, doing close to twenty knots.
Pull the board up more in these situations. Will also get more positive helm and able to come upwind in gusts rather than the boat veering of downwind and down the mine. Need to reinforce the case with a second shelf half way up or else the case will break next.
I do like the idea to lengthen the boards similar to Martin from Sweden and Hooters.
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Used windward sails quite a lot about five years ago and never had a problem. He used to work by himself but always delivered on time. Trusted him to make repairs on sails without a quote even.
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Very easy to get in any gate. Pretend to be busy outside the gate loading a trolley and sooner or later someone will come through the gate and then simply slip in behind them.
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I like the split start and passing the smaller boats is fun. I admire these sailors on small boats especially upwind and Iike cheering them on. In my opinion the little boats should start at nine.
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Bad luck about your rudder. Shorter rudders are good in my opinion, just need to have the sheets in hand when pushing the boat.
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Maybe Plan B had a lump of weed, fishing line with a fish or bucket, stuck on a center board.
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Not as easy as it looks .
From my limited experience some of the corners are very hard to get unstuck on the old windows and it is easy to break a corner.
Getting new ones made exactly the same size and shape is near impossible.
When gluing the new (nearly the same shape window) don't force it in or else it will simply pop out in the corners the first time you go sailing.
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We had momentary speeds of around 21 ( mainly involuntary).
Force of velocity is exponential. At top speed, Freedoms nose comes back out of the water, rudders are actually deep in water most of the time. You get the feeling you are on a raft which starts vibrating and bouncing over the back of waves. Steerage comes and goes. Water squirts out of the rudder and centre casing and the hulls flex a lot . A long trail of white water behind the sterns and lots of spray everywhere.
Consistently sitting on around 17 knots is a lot happier for Freedom. Some of the 8.5s that have less rocker probably have a higher top speed.
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Get the same feeling with intermittent no control on the helm at speeds around 18 knots.
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Great Barrier Race all good.
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Penned in Anniversary weekend at Mahurangi. We shall take all the cruising gear, squabs, large full chilly bin, cooker, large boom tent, dinghy, bean bags etc etc.
Would possibly like to moor the boat in Mahurangi for the whole of January if anyone knows of a mooring that we could rent?
Just got to fix that hole in the bow first.
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Why is Dr Dave selling his beloved boat?
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Can reach our buoy by lying on the tramp without a boat hook. By your self it takes a few tries.
Make up a bridle and also tie the buoy onto the front beam so that it doesn't get slimey. Easier than berthing in a marina.
I wouldn't buy a ferrgie yet, spend your money on a descent size, solid old tender that you can leave on your mooring.
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I don't think the director sailed much on a multihull, still enjoyed the perspective of four people on boat not that much bigger than ours. There wouldn't have been any room inside upside down.
In my opinion it does prove a life raft on a multihull is useless, a descent EPIRB or two very useful.
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Niwa says:
How does ENSO typically affect New Zealand?
During El Niño, New Zealand tends to experience stronger or more frequent winds from the west in summer, typically leading to drought in east coast areas and more rain in the west. In winter, the winds tend to be more from the south, bringing colder conditions to both the land and the surrounding ocean. In spring and autumn south–westerly winds are more common.
Great for the Coastal Classic.
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Avoid collision. There are no winners in these pile up lotteries and its best to pull out.
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Voom, your nav lights are still on.
Nav lights still burning bright this morning. You must get a prize from the committee for having enough power in your battery to run your nav lights for a week, LEDs are just so good.. Lanny turned them off this morning.
Relaxing race today in the harbour only three 8.5s.
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We got two different brands of furlers, they both end up in a birds nest at times or the sail wont furl up tight and you end up with the top flapping around.
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Agreed a large flat gennaker is best down wind and reach in the light no need for a furler. Had a furler cluster f on the screecher (code 0) in yesterdays race which wasn't much fun. Furling a sail is more complicated than it looks.
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Great day. No rain and lots of wind.
Went down the mine on the first leg dropping the mast head kite, took it easy after that.
Cruised passed Sailor Moon lying on its side around Gannet Rock.
After Shag Rock we crossed Motorboat, sending it on a large kite. They looked good, made it look very easy. Knowing that the next leg would be a challenge we wisely resisted putting up the fractional kite. Dragon cruised passed us.
Wind really picked up after going around Black Rocks. Quite wild. Voom was in front of us in irons and we went down to investigate. We thought we saw a shark circling Voom but it was the end of their broken centre board bobbing out of the water.
First time racing with two reefs and our smallest head sail. The inner forestay worked well. Very cool racing side by side with Voom in a haze of wind spray. The old wooden hulls flexing over the waves. We caught up to Stealth Mission who had already shaken out both reefs. Wind dropped right of again at Flat Rock and we were on the wrong side of a wind shift.
After that it was surprisingly light smooth, easy reach home. Well done to Voom for racing with only one board and teaching us another lesson.
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Too much helm is risky and slow. Raked the mast back and found that playing with the centre board depth also affects balance.
a little stringy thingy... Could be right up KM's alley.
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Individually tie the tramp at every hole, this limits the amount of string movement and wear. This also insures that the whole lot doesn't come undone at once. Dynema is good, doesn't break, the small diameter string will cut through plywood.
I keep a few lengths of string in my pocket and try and replace a few every time I go out. Ken from Voom splices each individual string. Most of us don't have time to do that.
The rods in our tramp continually creep out of place when the boat is moored and getting battered with wind and waves, like right now. Does anyone have a great way of keeping the rods in place?