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Where are you keeping her?
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I'm trying to update the 8.5 owners list and find out what has happened to some of the boats below. If you know anything about any of these boats or their history, please either post or PM me.
Boat Design Last Known Location Owner
Excalibre GBE Up North ?
Great Barrier Express 2 GBE ? ?
High Velocity GBE Bucklands Beach ?
Interceptor GBE Wellington ?
Lightning Bolt GBE ? ?
Pronto Farrier 25 ? ?
Pussy Cat GBE Sold mast-less on Trademe ?
Scandal GBE Waiheke ?
Storm GBE Tauranga ?
Ice Fire Farrier 8.2 BOI ?
Try Flyin Farrier 25 ? ?
Feel free to speculate about any of them! Anything has got to be better than nothing
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On Freedom we have pretty much the same system as Voom except:
- we still have the eye bolts in the bows - Ours must be anchored better as there is no movement at all. They, along with the stays do seem quite draggy and splash a lot of water around when sailing.
- We don't have a patriots beak on connection between the prod and the front beam. The end of our prod is just molded to sit over the ring, with nothing physically holding the two together other than compression. To hold the prod up, we normally have a halyard clipped on but have a little string from about half way along to top of the dolphin striker to hold it up and maintain the compression when we don't have a halyard on.
This arrangement means when you drop the kite into the water (even with a huge foredeck, it does happen occasionally and its not a huge deal normally), and the prod is trying to be pulled down into the water, the little string breaks and the prod just falls into the water and drags between the hulls of the stays to the bows. You just pull it back and stick it back on.
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more please....
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?
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Don't the major systems separate the pee into its own container which needs to be emptied frequently? The promo stuff seems to gloss over that fact.
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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.
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Really? Crazy!
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Got enough fuel cans?
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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.
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How about April 6 - It's after Nationals, not Easter and not a morning/evening high tide - 1217 - 3.0m high tide.
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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!
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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
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And the facebook campaign that led O'Connor and the like to believe she was representing the "majority" was similarly (probably intentionally) ill-informed.
Reminds me of the Fluoride debate in Hamilton - look at what the actual majority, via referendum, decided with 70% support!
I hope the sailing center goes ahead as the yachting scene has totally died at Takapuna, apart from the international champs, BUT without the YNZ headquarters in it.
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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!
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Two words Knot Me...
Andrew f**king Williams
Don't you mean
Andrew Pissing Williams?
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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 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 his finest:
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Here you go.
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?
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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!
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Today is your last chance to have a say on the matter with submissions on the plan closing at 4.30.
You can do it online and only takes a few minutes.
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Good post Paddy
Ditto!
From a Takapuna Resident!
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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!
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Yummy Yum Rum!
Pick up at Norths?
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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"
What prop pitch are you running?
in MarineTalk
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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, where the old prop would just labour the motor with the extra load. We have also added one of those trim wing things which has reduced the ventilation problem in a chop.
I was very impressed with Ed's 9.9hp motor when I went for a sail with him. It was so quiet that I forgot to turn it off before raising it! The bigger diameter prop gives a good grip on the water. Actually I was very impressed with it until we start sailing and the motor bracket started spraying water at me like a firehose!
I hope the electronic switchboard you have in the engine well is well waterproofed as that areas sees a lot of water when sailing.