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I'm looking for $11,500 for my half. She's got lots of nice gear and a great sail wardrobe. Coen, the other half owner, is a cool dude and very easy going.

Have I got the deal for you! My half of Freedom is for sale. Half the cost and work but the same amount of fun!

My Brother-in-Law has just been given a pretty tidy wooden Opti for his kids but it didn't come with a centreboard. Before we make one, does anyone have one floating around that they don't need anymore?

If your seeking reviews of Kevin Johnson Boat Builders, I'm more than happy to give you a public one! In 2015, our insurance company gave the job of repairing Freedom to Kevin Johnson and we are very happy with the result. Freedom had been involved in the collision (not our fault) and had lost nearly a meter off her port bow. Some boat builders just wanted to glass on a foam block and shape it, whereas Kevin rebuilt the front of the boat in double diagonal kaihikatea planking. You can't tell at all that the whole bow is new, either inside or outside, as they did a perfect job. Kevin did a

According to the noise rules in Chapter E25 of the Unitary Plan, you can be as noisy on Sunday as you can on Monday to Saturday, just for a shorter time when your doing your "home handyman work."

For sale - Half share in Freedom - $12,500 I'm planning of moving up to big cruiser in a few months time, so I unfortunately need to sell out the most awesome boat ever - Freedom. Coen wants to keep his half so whoever buys in, needs to get along with him, which isn't hard. Freedom is one of the original double diagonal Kaihikatea GBEs but has had almost everything replaced or beefed up in the last few years, including: - New Mast - New Beams - Full sail wardrobe in great condition. - Cockpits raised - Bows chopped off - Sterns extended - Centreboards extended and cases stiffened She

One of the reason I brought Ryobi 18v tools (and I know KMM has some too) is they make a car charger that runs of 12v. https://www.bunnings.co.nz/ryobi-one-dual-chemistry-car-battery-charger-14-4-18v_p00309751

Looks like a Whiting 26 was hit: http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/90750776/Speedboat-beaches-after-Auckland-Harbour-yacht-collision

It's a match race of the Max's! Max Hawkes (Arbitare) vs Max Cross (Oracle). Both are mates of mine so - GO MAX!

I saw three at Cash Converters on Wairau Rd today and thought you lot might like to know. A 20amp and 30amp for $249 each A 50amp at $349

I was in Jaycar Northshore yesterday and they had one that looked identical to that on special for $489 a think, down from $800ish.

Make sure you check the local tide info as the tide heights can be quite different to the Auckland Datum thanks to the large water body of the Firth of Thames. I've seen the navionics tide chart say the Coromandel harbour tide to be -0.3m when the Auckland tide tables were +0.2m so there are times when there is a lot less water than you expect.

Kevin Johnson boat builders from Devonport (but they can travel) is another good option.

Me Too - but I lost 10 kg on the "Fijian Sailing Holiday Diet Program" I think the results were so successful due to me selecting the "food poisoning with your fish" option at the restaurant on the last night in Fiji, resulted in a 8 day "super detox" of no food! Thanks to David for the great trip and entertaining stories!

Check out this blog of a family building a Schionning. They have a small genset hidden away and twin electric drives: http://www.catbuildingblog.com/the-electric-system-on-our-arrow-1200/ In their more recent posts, there are some discussions about how the system is working now that they have launched the boat.

They may be 46kg dry but by the time you add oil and extra weight for long shaft - they get "busting a gut" heavy! Nice, smooth and quiet through.

Good on them. I've been watching them from the start and they make great videos, although you have to endure their Aussie ascents! It would be interesting to know if they have been given the boat to own or on loan for as long as they want it? Its pretty clever from Outremer as they have 200K followers and many of them will be like me - a person aiming to be doing what they are doing and will need to buy a boat to do it in.

Crazy - That is our neighbour! We noticed she wasn't there on Saturday and commented that it was nice to see it actually leave the mooring Poor owners

We recently managed to convince the Harbour Master to get our Neighbour removed at Northcote Point, so the process can work. What we did to get some action: Emailed the HM photos of the badly run down boat. They reply saying they will check. 6 months later, repeat with updated photos. 6 months later repeat with updated photos Get other neighbouring mooring owners to email the harbour master too. Find the mooring chain about to wear through, send email to harbour master with photos. Get other mooring owners to voice their concern. This finally prompted some action and the harbour master ser

Sweet, Welcome to the 8.5m class - Where are you going to keep her?

Must to time to upgrade Voom to a be a "Sports Deck" GBE.

Funny - When Truxton knocked the port bow off Freedom in the SSANZ race last year, I called them up on the VHF to organise a tow home. With the amount of VHF traffic from the SSANZ race, we couldn't get a clear message through and eventually I gave up and called them on the cellphone. They were very glad to get the phone call as all they had got from our VHF conversation was that two boats had collided, one had significant damage and the situation was unknown about the other boat. They were about to unleash the full flotilla to get to the area ASAP to figure out what was going on. In reali

Bump! I've just made a small donation too.

What the F%&*!

Mate, Looking good!