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Are you in the northern hemisphere?😁😁

Makes diagnosis difficult then. Get a real voltmeter and take real measurements.

I'm having problems understaning the graphs. What are the actual sectors on them?

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That's not a radical bend, I would think you could do it in a roller bender. Long radius S shape rather than two separate bends would produce less stress.

This.

they did stipulate a one-hull rule. Regrets, I've had a few...

Finally, some excitement https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350396940/mighty-bang-team-new-zealand-boat-damaged-crane-accident-americas-cup-base

our gas locker (now redundant) also houses the liquid fuels. Constantly smells of tw-stroke fuel fumes... 😏

bloody hell. Or heel. We've had SO beyond 45 degrees from time to time. Don't even get wet in the cockpit. Well, not from seawater.

the definition of rich man racing. No technical or operational relevance at all to the boating population, and boring as batshit to watch. F1 had this problem for a while and fixed it with technical limitations, but they had the advantage of 10 competitors, 20 vehicles at any one time. Yachts match racing (AC at least) has two competitors, 3km off-shore in a procession. Best you can hope for as an observer is a gear failure or an operator error to liven things up.

Well, when the senior officer makes an order...

We have white upholstery in the Volvo. It's from hell.

Today looks a bit closer. Just watching GB and the Swiss.

Agree with your sentiment K, or as I understand it. To move away from geopolitics and into media and advertising, the reason we are in thrall with this is that we are fed it. I'd expect interest on a site like crew or anarchy, but the wider interest globally is the result of media selling advertising. Nothing else. There is no deep public interest in the narrow subject area of "billionaires dying in unusual circumstances". There is, however, a fatburg of schadenfreude and celebrity fascination that makes this stuff a goldmine for ratings.

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Yup three now have it on demand. Also available on the stuff.co.nz website. Processional is the best description for the moment. Prestart wrestling, then whoever leads over the start line wins. It better improve.

I don't agree wiv it, but rules is rules

I got taken out by a colourful caterpillar once. Pretty sure it was a D7. Bloody heavy anyway.

what exactly do you do with your day? 😁😁

so many lawyer and billionaire jokes come to mind, but still a bit early I think...

these are journalists. They went through the arts stream at school, not the science stream.

Yeah, I couldn't get over that. I'm no big time sailor, but I would have got away from a lee shore ( preferably go to the other side of the island), find a spot away from every other boat swinging in a rope, put out as much ground tackle as I could get my hands on, lash everything down, and then decamp to a bar onshore and view events from a comfortable seat.

cool range of "opinions". Thanks CD for the detailed description. On SO we have lead/acid (one wet, one AGM) so I'm not going to spring for a B2B system, and the VSR is staying (hey, it has been using a heavy relay triggered off the alternator warning light... VSR is high tech by my standards). No shore power. Thanks Matt for the contra-opinion. Your "simple yacht" statement aligns. Both have helped me clarify the needs and so the plan.