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  1. You mean less compression on your prod, if I read that right and your 2:1 in on the tack line.

     

    A 2:1 on the main halyard is a real pain when it twists and knots inside the mast ... in the bin it went! :-)

    Been there its nasty. Spectra gets a bit of a memory, go vectran on the 2:1 and it will run like a good thing.

  2. The good thing about actually meeting people in person is you can smack them in the chopps when they start mouthing off a bout shite they actually no nothing about. Unlike here, sadly.

     

    Leave it alone Phil.

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  3. It may easier to source a couple of bits of 20 x 40 and lam them together grains opposed. It will be a more stable base for him to shape off and less likely to take off sideways when wet/dry/wet. It could also be quite aesthetically pleasing. Timspec had some 20 x 62 A grade shorts that might do you. Leftovers from a superyacht deck. Try them as well.

     

    Rosenfelds have a shorts box that is pretty handy and not too badly priced but I'm not sure you will get 40mm thick out of there.

     

    Stability when wet is the biggest issue for rifle stocks, particularly in NZ's wet bush hunting conditions hence the trend towards floating barrels and synthetic stocks. They dont warp, I'd be laming it up out of smaller sections.

  4. This is an incredibly complex topic, particularly for wooden boat owners and there are a lot of misnomers and a range of 'theories' out there. Most of all it not a topic to be approached by google alone. Get some proper advice specific to your vessel.

     

    In terms of what is available on line the following IMHO is the best resource for a wooden boat owner to consider before doing anything. its completely different for glass, alloy, steel etc but this is for wood...

     

    http://waitematawoodys.com/2015/05/15/electrochemical-damage-to-wood-the-marine-version-of-leaky-homes/

     

    We are 89 years old and Kauri so its a topic we take really seriously.

  5. newspapers in the bilge also good as they change colour when wet

    And fall apart potentially blocking bilge pumps/switches.

     

    Is it salt or fresh water? Fresh would indicate a leak into a locker or similar as per the suggestion above.

  6. What's with this growing prevalence with some boating people to fly a pirate flag?

    I've had a bit to do with pirates in the Malacca Straits and I assure you they are not nice people.

     

     

    Do the Pirates in the Malacca Straights even go around flying a skull and crossbones these days? Their tactics have changed with the advent of 250hp Yamaha outboards and radar etc. and most real pirates don't run around advertising it...

     

    We fly it from time to time when there are small kids on board and they get a kick out of it.

     

    For the annual boys Barrier fishing week we don't bother, we all wear camo, shoot clays from the foredeck in the mornings, drink a lot from lunchtime and that generally keeps most people away.

     

    Would the addition of a pirate flag be additionally intimidating...I think not, it kinda lacks credibility these days.

  7. A decent sized dynex strop spliced to the right length to something bolted across the top of the case was what I had on Energy the E7.4. 

     

    In theory the case and the umpwe guides and shims are a pretty close fit but invariably in certain sea conditions (usually upwind) you can get an annoying and disconcerting slop as the fin moves ever so slightly in a fore and aft swinging motion. I ended up putting some e-glass pads in two places either side of the fin on the outside of the case just above waterline and thru bolting it with 2 x M16 SS bolts.

     

    It only took another minute to unlock with two spanners and  not only locked against the sides of the holes but only a little tension took up the slack on the shims inside. Was solid as.

  8. If your existing cars have the sprung down pin arrangement you can lift the pin and tighten a cable-tie around the shaft to stop it popping down. Then go for the double block arrangement on the front as described by IT above.

     

    Then if you have an 'issue' you can quickly cut the cable-tie and return to manual mode, no need to remove the pins...

  9. And over she goes

    Yup, not too surprised, Its not really a cruiser and you need to have reaction times and the intuition of a moth sailor to keep it on its feet let alone the 2 guys thrashing the winches for the dedicated expert trimmers - have a look at the video above, they are all working pretty hard to keep it in semi-flat flight. Sustainable for how long? 40 minutes? and hour? if that...

  10. Keep the old chipped one on board, if its the rubber bushed version they can spin the bush out and will (maybe, if your really lucky) still motor at bugger all revs only. Usually happens when you dont want it to happen, short chop, lee shore, semi darkness, raining, family on board, cruising, etc. So nice to have the old one with a fair dinkum bush on board. 

  11. The Kubota range of engines are damn near indestructible. We had 3 of them on 4WD vineyard tractors, hydrostatic drive and a steep contour meant they were running at near full throttle most of the time running mulchers etc on the steep Hawkes Bay hill country.

     

    Basically thrashing them, half the year in 30 deg C + and lots of dust. They were serviced regularly. Last time I saw them 2 were over 15,000hrs and one was close to 30,000 hrs and still doing the business. Really impressive.

  12. I'm the same - pragmatic vendor however stating up front that you will keep dropping the price just encourages people to wait, especially in the market that is described at length in this thread. So yeah, why hurry to make an offer on that, will be cheaper next month? Even though its probably a well present boat of good design, not too big for marinas and a great entry level cruiser for a family. It could be quite a self defeating way to sell. Deflationary.

     

    I'm selling BNG sometime, but I wont list it til spring and I'm comfortable with that. Why? cos it might sit around for 6 months in winter then people wonder why

     

    KM your Norths metaphor kinda doesnt work as Norths wouldn't keep dropping their pants til you bought as they sell on design value primarily and price down the pecking order. So its unlikely to happen the way you explain. Its called value based selling and the value isn't about the price...

  13. Been in the mountains for 5 days. Great to see you guys still perpetuating the chatter around desperate vendors and that stuff.co.nz have picked up on it and given it a nudge in the mainstream media. That's awesome for the industry, owners etc...

     

    Now the pox is back in the media too, great, lets really put some fear into the uninformed market.

     

    You only need one purchaser to buy your boat, just one. So how many potential purchasers has this doom and gloom thread reached now?

     

    As for the statement in one of the classifieds re keeping dropping the price til it sells......that has to be the most dopey sales strategy ever imaginable. What about selling the benefits or is that too hard?

     

    How about a thread espousing the benefits of the GOOD locally built boats from the 70s and 80s? They are out there and generally move out quite quickly if well cared for. Just acknowledge there's some overpriced sh*tboxes out there and move on.

  14. BP knows how many lurkers there are on here.

     

    Buying a new boat, need to do research, I'll go to the library... oh no, theres the internet, oh and its searchable well bugger me.

     

    Sow1d your naive if you think others dont read this stuff and thats very evident by by our posts in the Awatere thread.

     

    Clearly you have inside knowledge either as a contractor or employee. Frankly its talking out of turn as either and would be grounds for a serious misconduct case or termination of a contract. Plenty of people get caught out like that thinking nobody but the posters involved read it.

     

    I think we should think more about the threads we engage in. Its like some of the property forums where people winge about not making money out of their average white house, then lots jump on the bandwagon and it feeds the lurkers who go to the dairy and winge to the owner who then tells all his customers for the day the property sky is falling in. Becomes self prophesying.

     

    Go to go, got a plan to catch, lecturing the heads of depts at Massey today on digital media policy but wtf would I know.

  15. Negative sentiment in mass media doesn't help. This is not a closed forum, it's new Zealand's most popular sailing forum.

     

    I won't tell you how to run a lathe...media and PR are my business and one of the tactics my clients use is forum activity as a part of their media mix, because it works.

     

    And I don't mean muppets posting blatant ads. They build identies and begin sensible conversations, because it works...

    In skewing popular opinion.

     

    Just turn an extra couple of thou of that shaft will ya? It won't make any difference, it's only a few thou....can't make any difference, can it?

  16. Exactly BooBoo, and I agree there will some carnage in the market but not undeserved, there is a lot of massively overpriced crap on the market.

     

    I guess I'm seeing two brand new to boating boat owners on G Pier in the last few months and the marine trades fairly upbeat at a time of year its usually pretty grim. Those two would have collectively spent 400k+ on AWBs in the last few months. Thats on one pier.

     

    Just as an exercise perhaps Island time could quantify of the 41,000 + page views of this thread the number of veiws and count of lurkers other than regular posters in this thread to give an indication of the actual reach of what is a somewhat negative thread. Rather than just 'thinking' it doesnt have an impact we may well be surprised. There is cash kicking around town believe me, the corporate hospitality business is really kicking into gear which is a sure sign.

     

    Boat owners with their taste in their arse trying to sell clapped out crappers for far too much money will take a hammering. Great value well maintained boats like the Cordite will sell.

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