Psyche

RM 400, wheelies you say?

John Bennet at Sparloft may be able to help.

How's this for an entrance way

His resto work

Sitting around at a mates place, we called it his table of broken dreams. Lots of bits that self destructed!

The dipper

Any public figure like Dalton has will have supporters and detractors, he has done an absolutely remarkable job winning the cup back and defending it. Team New Zealand is an organisation that people want to work for and that says a lot about the culture, thats not what we are discussing though. If I recall TNZ demanded money from the public, so we invested in the defence expecting that if they won that TNZ would host a second defence here. Covid threw a force majeure spanner into the works so the promised spin offs for the local economy didnt happen this time. You could say that it was a

Doohan style!

Bikes have a come a long way but I'm not sure the enjoyment factor has changed. Wish I still had this one Here's a pic scanned out of my original T100 factory workshop manual that came with the bike. and the guarantee that came with it although not much use for the 2nd owner years later!

Are you suggesting a rally?

Here's a bargain for you, only 28k in the states would be over 60 here with the mods

So it does seem that the AC spectacle came out at a 28 cent loss for every dollar spent. All up 156 million from the public purse. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/447287/america-s-cup-new-zealand-made-156m-loss-on-hosting-event Here's a gem Remind me next time how good it feels when I spend 156m of your money on a circus 🤣 then instead of the promised big encore, they leave town!

Where's that, looks fantastically bleak! Hope there's a nice pub with a fire at the end of the day.

Same here, any excuse. I read somewhere that the leaning sensations release endorphins and make you feel happy, maybe so but there is no doubt that you always feel good after a ride.

I've owned something like 30 or more motorbikes, I am not sure what the attraction is but it's not too much of a stretch to imagine that there is something similar in the physical sensations to sailing. Whatever it is, there is some kind of magic that happens on two wheels that's as addictive as sailing.

Talk to Pahi, they did all the work getting ready for the RNI, and those things on the windows are called mullions. You could look at one of those transom hung generators that double as an emergency rudder, kill two birds but spendy. He said one of the best upgrades was putting a reef in the No2.

Thanks to SSANZ for putting on a great day, could not have asked for better conditions. After a pretty good start away from the carnage at the pin we managed to keep the rest of the fleet behind us and popped out of the Rakino channel with a good lead until the last stretch to the haystack where we got run down by Playbuoy and their code 0. Maybe we should have split at the haystack as some of the 88's that went left made Browns on one board, but as we rounded we were pointing at the finish so carried on right. Took a couple of digs into the Rangi shore but the boats that stayed out past the

11.30 Saturday ready to launch Thought this was worth a mention, a few weeks ago I broke the shaft strut on Psyche or rather it was more likely the result of 40 years of electric sea mice nibbling away. It was discovered hanging down off the shaft during routine clean, possibly been like that for a few weeks! I had planned to replace it with a bronze strut, the process involved getting a pattern, casting and machining which all takes time, and to coincide that with the yard plus the need to be out of the water for the shortest time meant that a lot of moving parts had to come together to

Elly we are on the same page, I previously gave my feedback to SSANZ re the new start sequence, the essence of it was: off the wind it's tricky as you have competing divisions looking for clear air to windward i.e. a potential rollfest on the wind, sbd tackers vs port tackers in different divisions = cluster limited vis and maneuverability shorthanded exacerbates any issues All of the above is more problematic in very light or very heavy air.

Not a fan of the split line or slow boats first. The start is a really important part of the race, win the start and get clear air is everyone's goal. Having to compete with far bigger two handed boats on the line elevates risk unnecessarily. Then having to thread through slow boats and gas is all the more reason to use a conventional start sequence. If the issue is time then perhaps start earlier?