BNG

No need for it and close is enough, just not a good look.

Did you know I was the other nicer, not run up the back of a bus Lady Margaret or was that a remarkable coincidence?

Not my Lady Margaret, that the 1939 Dick Laing one owned by a very senior Squadron member and Squadron General Committee member. Mines Colin Wild 1928 and much better looking As I said, there will always be dickheads as he is no newbie so that only leaves one option. Take it up with Squadron if you feel strongly about it.

I was posting to this comment which altho potentially tongue in cheek probably needed a mention, no reflection on many others on here IT. I wouldn't pass such a generalised comment on the yachties based on some of the horror story yacht behavior I see quite regularly....there will always be a few newbies or just dickheads in both camps.

The launch bashing on here gets a bit tiresome and a lot of the luanchies are ex sailors with skills and knowledge far beyond anything you could possibly hope to achieve. This forum has changed, it used to be a forum of knowledgeable sailors, sailmakers and associated trades. Now it feels more like daycare for newish sailors with an opinion on everything with a few more experienced and patient participants conducting daily pre-school for a few that want to question the validity rules of the road etc some of which have been in place for hundreds of years. Give it a rest, you might be s

Driving a RIB between the hulls of the Waiheke ferry the night we won the cup in 95 got me into a lot of trouble. Probably cos there is significantly less clearance, heaps more room for a plane under the bridge but probably still inadvisable...

Was it actually full of water and not air-locked up? I always run the hot tap prior to a good motor to flush any air out. It takes roughly 10 x as much energy to heat the same volume of water as air so if its partially empty its likely to get way hotter than it should as its not transferring the energy (heat) to water.

Question I've got is why was there diesel in your bilge? In theory the tankage should be a closed system with the only outlets to the engine, filler and breather. The filler and breather are both on the outside of the hull/deck so is there a leak between filler and tank or breather and tank that a bit of heel and full tanks demonstrates? You could run around never filling your tank right up but Id be looking for the source of the leak to the bilge as a part of the cleanup.

4200 joule/litre/deg for water so 4200 x 13 deg = 54 KJ/litre 1 Watt = 1 J/second so 50 watt lamp uses 50 joules of energy each second. You should be able to work out the rest ....give you something to do whilst sitting at the barrier. Go...!

I see Kidnappers has just gone Northerly in a big way with 30+ gusting 40 from the N, that will make it not much fun for the back markers.

Presumably your heat exchanger and exhaust manifold below are above water line so when its not running it will naturally (mostly) drain out of the exchanger and manifold which is a good thing and the anode isnt in action as there is minimal if any water left after a cool-down period so less corrosion issues for the components... I wouldn't worry about the few minutes per year its at idle other than wear on the impeller by not chucking enough water through at low revs. Get an aqualarm or similar if its not fitted, then at least you know you have some water going through the raw (seawater) p

All the Lees Fords have the inclined top heat exchanger, should be an anode at each end as well. That air pocket isn't an issue as its a pretty open system and it flushes any air out real quick rather than air locking up.. You probably have anode (x2) in your transmission heat exchanger if it has one fitted. And don't forget the refridge one if it has mechanical refridge fitted. The secret to making those engines last is warming them up slowly as the water distribution when the thermostat is closed is pretty poor along the block with the front getting hot first and the rear still cold. Tha

I only became a member 2 years ago when I sold out to the dark side and went classic launching. With only one motive power source it was a mandatory to me, when I had the flappy sail thingies as well I was never too worried. And in two years I have used it once when some visitors kid basically went around and turned everything on in the middle of the night and killed house and start batteries at Oneroa with a rising Northerly. So I was pleased when they came and gave me a start... With two modes of power I felt less vulnerable, possibly why a lot of sailors don't. A little more sel

No and that is why you should try.

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.

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.

So in the end it worked like a $1 reserve item then, boosting up to what you wanted. I'm probably wired up a bit different and need a little more certainty on a circa 30k item. It worked for you tho.

Altho KM - I do appreciate your 'stockturn' analogy. That works.

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 wi

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

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

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?

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

I disagree and all this negative sentiment wont help, this thread will index well with the search engines and even if only 100 people read it as a result of a search thats 100 people dead set on going and kicking someones head in for a bargain, or that's their expectation. This is just another form of media but far more readily available and searchable (ongoing ad infinitum until the server craps out) to those with similar search criteria. Based on the assumption that you make that "most people will be well aware of the market" then they will also be aware that many brokers are full of it

You guys have done a fantastic job of talking the AWB market down as this thread will surely index highly on the search engines and prospective buyer that cant form their own opinion will absorb this. Excellent. Good boats still sell, crappers don't. The proportion of crappers has increased as the fleet ages and people play xbox instead of gaining the skills to maintain them themselves cost effectively/sail them. Regulation round grids,hardstands etc. Moorings/Marinas hasnt helped AWB's are disposable and like the classic fleet its only those with great pedigree and build quality