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This^^ The injuries that Ive have heard about or experienced have all been due to the sheet and not the boom. On smaller boats where you have to duck, its the boom but on bigger boats where you can stand under a boom it's the sheet or blocks. Some boats are more dangerous than others, but even so it's the skipper/helmsmen who has the responsibility to maintain situational awareness and warn crew who are in the danger zone, but most of all do their one job and steer the boat! A really bad habit is the helmsman trying to pull strings or do anything other than steer. If you are too deep he

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Crash gybes are rarely out of the blue, it's usually the skipper being inattentive or distracted, ours have mostly been because of not looking backwards but in breeze downwind you always know there is chance so you keep clear of the gear. On big boats 50 and up helmets would not make too much of a difference with the forces involved i.e the Platino.

This is a good discussion, plenty of people have had hits by the boom but I would not support helmets being made compulsory for keelboats but I can understand why it should be mandated be in certain events/age groups and classes. Thinking back to my boom interactions (and another skippers recent hit where he fractured a neck vertebrae), its not the boom itself but the mainsheet that's got me a couple of times and a helmet wouldn't have helped as I was struck on the neck.

Should be fine as is, if not get some kind of goo to seal it. In days of yore there was literally a product called gasket goo , an awful brown treacly substance that you brushed on. People have successfully used garden variety silicon, I use loctite blue but any auto supplier will have a shelf of options. if you inspect the gasket and it looks ok and the mating surfaces are clean it should work. Head gaskets are a no though!

Tidal predictions are reasonably accurate, certainly enough for navigation purposes. I think the issue would be the cost for setting up and maintaining permanent sensors.

length of arrow = strength of flow but navionics has tidal and current predictions, as do paper charts but the above should give you a starting point

Brace yourself for your next mooring fee- this year in our local mooring area on the shore, the maintenance bill for two that I know of was 5500 for 20 ton vessel and 3400 for a 5 ton vessel. Thats maintenance so I suspect a full mooring install on barrier given the remoteness and depth, and having to wildly ovespec them that each one would be 10k or more. We are talking millions in setup and the ongoing legal issues with insurance, and the management etc would be a nightmare. "How much does your vessel weigh sir?" Certificate please, do you have insurance, certificate please, sig

Better tell Repco to stop selling these

So if you arrive in the evening and dont want to navigate through Man O War for example?

Ok so if I have got this right, you can drift about and fish/dive/spear but not net, dredge or anchor in Red, you can park in Yellow but must clean your gear

Repack and grease, this type of seal is pretty simple and have been keeping the water out since forever. If you were contemplating a change, the Volvo dripless seals are cheap and pretty good. On the dripless front there are 2 types, one is the rotary face type where one of the faces presses against and rotates on the stationary side, and the other type which uses a lip seal on the shaft. Standard lip seals are not recommended but there is a nitrile type that has a broader flatter lip made by James Walker which doesnt wear the shaft as much. Chatfields make the bluewater models, but you

Heres a good article on lithium drop in's https://marinehowto.com/drop-in-lifepo4-be-an-educated-consumer/

Give adhesive technologies a call as well, this has been done about a million times so they can probably you a pretty good layup schedule off the cuff and supply the materials. If you are serious about saving weight vacuum bagging is the way to go but you can get a pretty reasonable wet layup job by weighing the cloth and resin aim for 50/50 or less resin. Ideally get the parts CNC shaped, otherwise a few hours with templates should get an ok result. If you're looking for that performance edge its worth spending the time getting them as perfect as possible.

To me SailGP was a no brainer, it has everything you could ask for in terms of a sporting spectacle for "the city of sails". There are plenty of places to view the course from, it wouldn't take much in the way of creativity to make it happen.

Before hauling it and ruining xmas, put it on the grid and slide the stuffing box up the shaft so it rotates with it, that should give you a pretty good idea of whats going on. if you are not comfortable with doing it yourself then get a friend with some experience to help, its really not that difficult. Could be a build up of old hardened grease in the shaft or as simple as some new stuffing required. Worst case refit the SB and carry on with plan A

Melted goretex, tired 2GM? Who knows?

Is it just me or does it seem like there's not much in the way of large public celebrations in our city? It's like the council is disconnected, the city needs positive easily accessible events to build some pride in Auckland, especially after the floods, covid, the constant complaining by the Mayor etc. They really should have made a huge effort to bring the GP here, I mean how hard can it be, weve only hosted the worlds biggest sailing event multiple times! It would go a long way towards relieving the disappointment over Dalton removing the cup defense.

You can repack a stuffing box in the water, its been done thousands of times. A friend did one last year for the first time no problems, plenty of youtube videos out there, the water pressure is very low and a few rags will stop most of the flow so no need to panic when you are doing it! Or do it on the grid to have a good look at the cutlass bearing as well, no need to pull it out at this stage.

Photos LBD?

A bit swirly underneath it from a few reports, interesting because about 10 years a ago tornado formed here and swept up the sugar works valley before heading off into suburbia