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my Norsewear socks are wool. Are tehy owned by Prada? 🤣

right up to the abandonment...

A survey commissioned by and for the owner is no insurance for you. The only way to do this is to get a qualified person (or business) to carry out a full survey to your specification. They will need to know intended use as a part of that and if off-shore in this yacht is your intention they need to know that. For a steel yacht of that age and your intended use I'd go for a full rig inspection and report, a hull/deck/superstructure survey and a mechanical and systems survey (engine, gearbox/drive, electrical, electronics). It will be pricey, but you have the reassurance and the surveyo

The best days of AC were when it was actual match racing. The move to ultra-high performance craft has shifted the skill too far toward hte technology, and away from the sailing. Bring back the days of close-encounter tacking duels and tests of endurance at observable speed. And this as a non-sailor then and only slightly less-so now.

Worse. The teams are required to build a car that needs 20 litres of fuel just to get moving. They all have to circulate the track looking for cannisters of fuel so they can drive at top speed for an undetermined amount of time before they coast and idle to find the next cannister of fuel. And the "race" can arbitrarily be shortened if none of them find enough of the fuel to finish before next week. Really, this is an organisation problem. Racing should take place only if there is sufficient and stable wind conditions. You know, racing for the competitors, not to suit a TV sc

These races are longer than a 5-day test and about as interesting. 🥱

oh fcuk off AA. The world is beating a path because we took appropriate strict action on COVID. The fines for jetskiiers are the same as those for any watercraft exceeding the speed limit. They are set and policed by the reghional authority not government despite your fetid and fevered imaginings. They are generally poorly policed because as ratepayers we do not prioritise it. We pay for people to get licences for the same reason we pay for people to get medical training - it helps them get a job. As a side-issue, it reduces low level illegal behaviour and so reduces exposure

maybe, but if it slips, it makes a mess of the chuck. It should have a stepped land on the cutting face so the grip will be tenuous at best. Just get a cheap one, cut it off to length on the cutty bit, then regrind the tip

hmmmn, theres a lot in the article that does not make sense, but I guess that in the heat of the moment recollection of detail is shakey at best.

...and this is why charts and plotters are a thing.Take care evryone. Schadenfreude is pretty ugly in here. I understand the feelings regarding gin palaces and thier drivers (not skippers), nonetheless, someone's day get even shittier and the insurance company will spread the cost to you and I.

More opinion presented as fact. Followed by a quick "some of my mates are darkies" retraction. Thanks for clarifying where you are coming from.

referencing the report on managed isolation KM?

A promising start. The border is not 100% secure to Covid in the same way that our border is not 100% secure to anything. This is why the testing takes place at entry and in MIQ. Testing prior to entry would require a secure post-test accommodation. Testing at early infection is nowhere near 100% reliable, so the reality is you would need 2 tests, about three days apart prior to boarding to be around 95% certain (but not 100%) that the traveller was not positive. Good luck managing that in ports outside your own country. Of course, if MIQ was the one and only me

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This is our first summer in our Saraband. We are heading to Port Charles for 5 days in early January so we will hopefully get to the Mercs and perhaps drop into Barrier for a day in one direction or the other. Its a bit of a shakedown cruise for us as we plan to headup to BOI in early March for a few weeks - a week or so more locally will help us figure out what does and doesn't work. New water tanks, pump and taps to be fitted yet, and a new boarding ladder at SWMBO's request. For me, an EPIRB is santa's present. The autotiller will have to wait. A bumclean and anitfould is sch

plus, its designed to go into houses generally don't bounce, roll, pitch and yaw as a part of their operating method, and are built around standard angles (90, 45, etc). The drainage stuff does crack if its not supported or is subjected to a lot of movement. If you have a long run that can be well fitted and supported (preferably embedded) ok. Anything else, just get the right stuff and swallow the boat tax.

yup, the youtube feed was good. Also, you can drop in and out of it and still not miss anything. Racing was a bit of a lottery toward the end of the day, but no doubt great practise for all teams

I draw your attention ot the word "verification" in the document I linked. "Activate your AIS transponder (or other observable satellite tracking system) prior to departure. Keep it on for the duration of the journey so your movements can be verified. Any deviation in your journey plan will make verification that you have met your isolation requirement more difficult and may require you to complete the 14-days isolation period in a managed isolation facility when you arrive in New Zealand." My emphasis. You mistake operational implimentation for governance. This could expla

still has the inherent problems of the Wankel engine - thermally inefficient (huge surface areas that are exposed to the combustion process and draw heat that should be converted to motion); dynamically challenged seals that require total loss lubrication with the inherent emissions issues that this has etc. Overall I don't see any significant advances over, say, forced induction wankel - a point they make themselves in passing. Its clever, but not world-changing. Further, its too late. It required fossil fuels. This is a narrow niche market product at best.

I've seen a VERY large diesel go into runaway. Ain't no way I was going anywhere near it and I suspect it would have sucked a horse up the intake with little obvious impact except to the horse.

Contrary to the fetid imaginations of the contrarians, nothing described so far by the OP signals anything other than complete compliance by the Govt with its published policy and practise. It may be tough, it may not be justifiable and it may even be ludicrous theatre, but as anyone who has been through the laughable pantomime of airport security in the US, we don't have that on our own.

He's just practising so he can ghost-write for Bob Jones. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I assume that option remains open to you. The 1st Rule of Holes applies here NYS - I gently suggest you apply it.

Yeah, not our experience last weekend! Once the genoa was full it was near impossible to reef controllably by hand on the furler - we resorted to the empty sheet winch. Thanks for the feedback - really appreciated.😀

A viable alternative for light loads, or plastic rubbish that you would regret? Definition of light load - 10m keeler, headsail furler line including tensioning (but not trimming) in partial furl , light air spinnaker sheet and guy. Cruising, not racing, mostly two-handed