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Is that the new storm kite design everyone is talking about?

sounds like a Maritime Museum thing....

back on track now. There is no dishonour in living to fight the next day.

Good luck to all the crew in the RNI. Slightly jealous, slightly in awe.

Its a largish (53 foot) charter cruising cat according to the website all links take you to. Primarily Bahama's based, when it was afloat. Oddly, the website refers to it in the present tense. https://svmagicbus.com/bus_details/

The RAYC early editions are hoot just for the oddly affected language. Hven't seen the later editions, hopefully the have moved beyond the Edwardian era.

Bloody yanmar, cheap Japanese crap.... 😉

Needs must. First alert was the bilge pump blowing warm water into the cockpit. Who knew that 50 year old hoses would give up at the worst possible time?

We are never going off shore and so this pretty much brand new but older sail is just dead weight on board. Foot is 2.75m eye to eye, luff is 4.45m eye to eye. Cloth feels like a medium weight synthetic canvas. Slugs are 16mm wide. Feels like it's worth $100, let's see.

Undoubtedly, if you are a Harbour racer you are stuck with being in one of three facilities. We are not. Our Clevedon location has us about 2 hours sailing from the bottom end, on secure weather-protected poles in a reasonably maintained but not luxury facility. Think DOC camping ground vs Top10 holiday park. I have no idea what we pay, I think it's about $250 a month, so 3k a year. Much more than a swing mooring but orders of magnitude safer. Much less than a marina, but we do have to take the dinghy 50m from the jetty to the boat. Choose your compromise.

meanwhile, pole moorings are in demand. Brooklands (Clevedon) recently expanded, Weiti has a waiting list, Tamaki River similar. An economical compromise on security and ease of access.

The outer Poles are to port coming in, starboard going out. Once you are in the river ( past the outer headland, marked with red and black poles) it reverses. We draw 1.7m, reliably 3 hrs either side of high tide is fine.

water ballasting?

UNC/UNF

Bi-numeral, surely? A measurement worthy of Mr Bernard St Francis Whitworth-Socket (BSF to his friends), a famed (if apocryphal) bicycle mechanic of Sheffield. Later a Design Asst. for Norton motorcycles where his flexible approach to units of measurement led to the inclusion of minor but infuriating oil leaks as a standard feature in all crankcases and a wide range of gearboxes.

Mrs Aardvark advises that BOI is busy. So busy, they shifted bays after dinner last night. Similar around Whangaroa, and crowded at Cavallis yesterday such that they chose not to stop.

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we need a "holy sh*t" emoji

The clonk sound is depressing.... If the crank won't turn in either direction that sounds catastrophic. Even a dropped valve shouldn't stop the crank from turning. I'm not sure how easy it is to uncouple the gearbox from the engine. If it's relatively simple, that would identify if the clonk was engine or gearbox generated.

No problem landing a sleigh on that lot.

I hope everyone is in reasonable shelter today... Some big wind numbers up and down the east coast this morning.

Mrs Aardvark is somewhere in the BOI aboard her brother's Elan for the week. Dropped her off in Toots yesterday and then scarpered before the weather set in. Doubt she will recover on return to SO. The Elan is less sailing, more apartment living at a slight angle.

All the Chromecast devices I've seen need both HDMI and a USB power source.

Just looked at the new certificate requirements as the BIL is in the process of purchasing his "live aboard, offshore cruising final fling" yacht. I'm not sure if it's a "hard to do" as much as a move to a move liaise faire, hands off, personal responsibility approach in line with current government thinking. I can see it heading toward a high trust model - as master you complete a declaration, perhaps attach some documentation (current EPIRB serial for example), and sign it off. Maritime NZ audit 1:20 to assure themselves of compliance.

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