Adrianp

Yep, getting a bit of maintenance in between big tides.

Hmmm, it will be interesting to see how the public poll works. I imagine the outcome will come down to wording and scope of the questions i.e will it be focused on just the landowner approval for the sailing center or will it be sailing center vs campground. I put in a submission of support to the resource consent. I'm a local resident, member of Takapuna Boating Club and ex sailor of Hobies at Takapuna. I hope it goes ahead!

Hi, Adrian here, the other 1/2 owner of Freedom. We don't have any fancy sheet for the main, just a 10mm polyester line (might be dynema). As it comes to both cockpits, the sheet often gets a bit lop-sided, with more in one cockpit than the other. This would make it hard to do a splice into a low friction rope for the bit that stays in the blocks. Generally we always release the traveler before the mainsheet. On the wind, the helmsman holds the tail of the jibsheet (not cleated), with the crew working the traveler and the mainsheet sitting in one of their laps (but cleated in a clam cl

Hey Clive, I have a bit of footage from the nationals if your making a video. I'm still trying to figure out the whole editing thing!

How about this as a starting point: Racing: - Both downtown Wednesday series - Great Barrier Express Race - Squadie Weekend - Route 66 - Auckland Regatta - RNZYS Winter Series - SSANZ Triple Series - Coastal Phew, that's a lot! It sounds like some of the bigger multis are keen to do Bay week but the 8.5 owners I've talked to aren't that keen. I haven't done a lot of cruising events yet so I won't make suggestions there apart from we are hoping to do an 8.5m cruise to the Riverhead pub one day (bigger multis will probably have mast clearance issues)

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 are you keeping her?

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

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 th

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?

One more thing to throw into the mix - In 2019 there is possibly going to be a Tall ships race around NZ to celebrate an anniversary (no idea which one) of Capt Cook. Other boats should be able to join in.

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.

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

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.

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!

Don't you mean Andrew Pissing Williams?

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!