Adrianp

I have a BF20 that's on a trailer sailer that I've been given and am trying to sell (http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=891439399). Seems like a really nice motor for the few times I've used it. 6amp charging as standard and can be upgraded to 12amp I think? If you want to help unbolt it, your welcome to borrow it to see how it fits and goes. I'm really hoping I can sell the boat without the motor as I really want to keep it for cruising on Freedom/hooning around in my RIB. Mine seems to have a smaller prop than the 9.9 yamahas run so that might be a point of difference. I do

Happened to us last year of a windy day when we had broken half the slugs off the main. Ended up limping to a local yacht club where we had a few rums and waited for the wind to drop before motorsailing home under jib. The props (on 8hp Yamy long shafts anyways) can jump in an out of the water a lot when trying to motor in a chop and I think that busts the bush. Prop selection for our cats is tricky due to the windage we have. We have changed to a prop with reduced pitch which means we can only motor at about 5-6knots in flat water but we get a lot more grip/push when the wind comes in

Ditto! More build pics of Voom would be good too. Might be useful in motivating someone else to do up another GBE. Formula 40 looks like an interesting boat. Whats happened to these boats?

My Father-in-Law finished off Moby Duck in their driveway and they raced her around the North Island a couple of times. I think there are 3 or 4 different versions. Higher Ground is a fully turboed one I think.

Really? Crazy!

Got enough fuel cans?

At Kens request, I've contacted the relevant authorities to get us an official height of the Powerlines. So far its involved 4 phone calls to different companies and they were meant to give me the answer yesterday. I'll let you know when they do get back to me. The general feeling I got from them was that they should be higher than the Upper Harbour Bridge, so if you make it under there you should be fine. It has 17m according to the charts.

How about April 6 - It's after Nationals, not Easter and not a morning/evening high tide - 1217 - 3.0m high tide.

Been thinking of ideas since our 8.5m Meeting the other night and wondered about a race to the Riverhead pub as an idea. It's 10nm from the Harbour Bridge to the pub, so hopefully about 1-1.5 hours each way. Its only the last 3.5nm that get really tidal so if we plan it right, we should get a bit of Pub time in the middle. The Upper Harbour bridge has 17m clearance so should be fine. There is a set of powerlines near the pub that I can't find a height for on just yet. Maybe start at Westhaven, finish at the pub - sail/motor as you like in between!

Managed to have a successful first night away on the GBE with my wife and 3yo daughter and it feels like a big hurdle has been crossed! Cruising a racing cat is interesting. It sure gets you there quick, 2 hours from Northcote to Oneroa downwind was great, but 2 hours motorsailing upwind home was more impressive! Once we got the boom tent up, which covers the boat from the main beam back, we had a whole new perspective of space! Also cool to wake up at 2am, to find only 500mm of water under the boat, and then just go back to bed

I had a busy weekend chopping out a bit of hedge to put in a new gate - so I can get High'n'FIbre out! The new gates are double the size of the old ones, which I had to use ropes tied to the car to get HnF in as the angle was too tight. This modification cost me the same as a single month of Westhaven fees - pretty happy with that outcome Time to do some yachting again!

I remember Lachie explaining to me that the inaccessible void between the two cockpit floors is where the boats love is kept. There used to be a small gap, but an actual rat climbed in there and died. So they sealed the gap and contained the smell. Can’t wait to lift that floor….. I only remember this because as soon as he’d finished the story, a very drunk Paul (Danger Mouse) who was staring at Lachies hot new girlfriend during the whole story, without breaking eye contact with her he threw up on her lap. I couldn't imagine him doing that -he was such a refined gentleman. Here he is at

Damit - I'm slipping! I can't name all those Piedys! I've got: Ratz, Dangermouse, Smiler, Rumgo, Triumph, Infats, Bomba, ?, ?, Motamouse, Suspect Device, The Damp, Rat Catcher, Loose Unit and Red Label Anyone figure out who those others are?

Good to hear Ratz has a good home. Shes a cool boat - and quick! Had a wild ride in her when the tiller broke clean off - while on the blast with the kite on - she kept tracking straight and we managed to keep her going through the finish line before dropping the kite with no wipe out. I think she has a double cockpit, a new self draining one above the original not-self-draining one!

I finally got Hih n Fibre back together again for her first sail since breaking the mast late last year! Got all the jobs done in time for a test sail at 5pm on Sunday afternoon - had a very pleasent drift and found all the sails go up and down OK. Just entered SIMRAD for next saturday!

Yummy Yum Rum! Pick up at Norths?

I'll admit that ec12nz did all the hard work! If you go to Wikipedia and look someplace up, click on the lat/long and it will bring up a number "google earth" type websites and then you just find one that has good photos. Interesting that the area is called "Bay of wrecks"

Here she is! http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v ... sphere____

Hey Wolfie, I still can't get my head around how that damage occured. Do you mind explaining again? Was it caused but the initial flipping or the righting or what? Did the tow line go over that point?

GET A PIEDY UP YA!! Glad to hear you have a way forward Mr Wolf, shame its a bit of a hard one!

I think we'd get more time sailing her if we just copied everyone else and went for flipping rather than mast breaking! I very much enjoyed my single sail on her so far and I'd like to point out that nothing broke that day!

That is just the saddest sight! Hopefully not too much work to get her sailing again.