Adrianp

It was always the plan to swap between Christchurch and Auckland each year. Auckland Unlimited has a whole big month long sea festival based around the Sail GP.

It's $80 to enter a RNZYS Wednesday night race if your not a RNZYS member and want to enter on the day. Nah, I'll just go for a nice afternoon sail thanks!

I built my system using Winston Cells and the REC BMS that talks to the Victron Cerbo GX, MMPT and Inverter. It's been in the boat 2.5 years now, done the usual Xmas cruises, a 6 month trip to the islands and the we often run a dehumidifier off the inverter while sitting on the mooring so the batteries haven't had an easy run. They have just dropped from 99% State of Health to 98%, so it seams they have a long life ahead of them! Doing the design and install myself has been the scariest boat project I've ever done as there is so much info to wade through and so many ways to do the

The last few years there has been a Facebook group started each season titled something like "Opua to Fiji 2022" or similar. Hopefully something similar starts this year as it was very useful as most boats joined it.

Dean Kennedy is a very good surveyor - http://www.marinesurveynewzealand.com/about-us.html

Thats bloody cleaver and I'm going to steal that idea!

Their presentation to the Councils was perfect. They presented a good case and really brought home the issue with the later presentation from the Howick local board chair saying they are worried about pest transition to the Tamaki river due to more boats coming down there.

Sounds like they may have been aboard when the vessel broke its mooring? https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/02/13/one-missing-after-boat-breaks-mooring-near-great-barrier-island/

You can watch for it here: (Well if its in the half of the mooring field I can see from my house anyway)

And gives maybe 400mm of Storm surge? Lucky there are only 3.0m tides next week.

We use one like the second one. Works well until you suck up some sand (which is always in the dinghy) and then it becomes very stiff and hard to use. I can open it up and clean off the sand pretty easy when it happens, so it's not too bad.

Matt, what is the approx step up to the H5000?

Matt, is it only the H5000 that could effectively sail to windward on a cat? When trying to go upwind, we have to use a compass heading on our Simrad AC12 or older Raymarine backup autopilot as the apparent wind setting is no good. The AP thinks it's doing a good job holding the apparent wind angle but the boat is ranging from nearly stalling at 3kts, to tearing off on a power reach at 12kts, all on the same apparent wind angle! Even on the compass heading, we need to constantly tweek the heading up and down a couple of degrees to keep the boat effectively going upwind. All other wi

This Guy? Mad! 327192495_8726846427356377_3369431114010467887_n.mp4

I bought a pair of the HDI marine exhaust elbows for my Yanmars last year and I'm very happy with them so far. Delivery from the USA was quick too

Just entered Lady Nada!

When they are checking you out, Customs will ask for a copy of the Cat1 cert and your will not get your clearance to leave NZ if you don't have one. If you just sail out, its likely no one will stop you but when your arrive in your next port, you will be in a lot of hot water as you will not have any of the right paperwork. They will have no idea where you came from, how many people you had aboard, did you murder your crew at sea and dump their bodies, etc, etc

Can't help on the combability but we fitted the WS320 last summer and have done 5000nm with it since. Its awesome and just works! On our B&G displays it shows the battery charge and signal strength, which may or may not display on the Garmin. We never look at those (as it just works) so shouldn't be a big issue.

I know the last owner of your boat and I think he had some troubles with a broken wire on the depthsounder. I think he put a new plug on the end of the cable, so you should check those connections.

AYBAs presentation can be found at the end of the Agenda minutes if anyone wants to read it: https://infocouncil.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/Open/2022/11/20221124_OR_AGN_11149_AT.PDF

Great Turnout of support with over 100 people there to support the Hard Stand. The AYBA/Auckland Recrational Marine Users Group (I think that was their name) gave a really good 10min presentation pointing out that their Consultation was legally flawed as they treated it as just a local reserve, when it is actually a regionally significant piece of coastal infrastructure. It was a polite way to hint, "you are going to get legally challenged" if you don't reconsider and do a proper legal round of consultation. The board then briefly debated how to accept this presentation and next steps, vo

My Understand, which might not be 100% right: The Yard and all assets are owned by Auckland Council (I guess actually the Orakei Local Board as local boards own all their reserves) and you get a bill from Auckland Council when you use the yard. STF (https://www.stfgroup.co.nz/ are contracted to run the yard on behalf of Council. They do a great job but seem to struggle with no investment in the yard from its owner. I've had nothing but good dealings with Jonny and the rest of the team running the yard.

Multis have a separate set of rules for lifelines that allows a few different options, one of which is just jackstays and harnesses.

The Piedys have put together a proposal to YNZ to ask for a Class exemption from the Lifelines. Fingers crossed they can get it sorted in time as i would be awesome to see a fleet of Piedys on the line!

Remember the Harbour Master put all Mooring Licence fees up $50 a year to specifically fund the removal of abandon boats, so it good to see them taking action.