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YNZ and the Inspectors are meeting tonight to review the findings of the Essence report, so you may want to call your inspector today if you have anything you want them to consider or bring up.

The issue is that the inspectors will now have to grant an exemption that is directly contrary to the rules. These new rules have left the inspectors between a rock and a hard place. They were able to ignore the issue this year as the rules only came about a month before the start of the cruising season. I've had some discussions with my inspector about this and his initial thoughts were that he may be able to still sign us off but would have to get a second inspector to check my windows with him, just to cover his ass if something goes wrong in the future. That will only be a short term

The change in window rules is a major change for offshore sailing multihulls. For keel boats the rule changed from "you need to carry shutters" to "you need to have them fitted". For Multis the rule changed from " you need shutters or strong windows" to "shutters must be fitted." Old Regs: Nearly all offshore sailing NZ multis have extremely strong windows and a plan to deal with breaking one of them i.e ply the right size ready to be screwed in. These new regs are pretty unworkable for most of the multis I've spoken too. It will weaken the window frames/cabin top, p

These seem to be the relevant changes to the Moorings section:

It looks like its getting pretty crazy there. It's an interesting situation and I'm impressed that all the Govt Departments and Council are not responding to the media storm being created. It helps that this consent has been tested at every level of the courts in NZ and shown to have followed due process. I think that is stopping any wise politician wading in, as they know the the marina won't get stopped.

Interesting situation. I think Martin Robertson has taken over the Mahurangi Marinas yard by the old Cement works, so he gets a nice payout from the land auction and gets rid of the competition?

John Hughes could also be a good option as he has a shed on the waterfront in Mahurangi Harbour and is a multihull expert. https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/boating-nz/20150901/283901636723703

https://www.hibiscusmarineandstorage.co.nz/haulout-hardstand

We had the slightly newer Furuno Fax30 which displayed the Weather Fax's straight onto the Furuno Chartplotter, but it died last year and I'm not spending $$$ to get it going again. It was pretty useful to know what was driving overall weather systems that Predict Wind gave the very detailed, but smaller forecast for.

You don't realize how big she is till your alongside her in your dinghy and she's as long as the dinghy!

I've got both the IridiumGo and SSB on Lady Nada and I'm glad I have both for offshore sailing. The iridium is the primary means of contact and weather but the SSB is a nice backup. I don't know if I would spend the money on a new radio however if you have one, worth keeping. I've found a regular radio check-in with Maritime NZ when on passage to be a nice confirmation someone official knows what we are doing and where we are. Its also useful to know/talk to other yachties on passage to know what the conditions are near them. I have the a weatherfax app on my phone that can plug in and d

Having raced cats for years, this is about the only practical method to get them up if underway. The best way is to get them up/down when tacking but often there aren't enough hands onboard to achieve this. If short tacking, then just leave both down, it doesn't seem to slow you down much. Be careful with GBE boards if your cases aren't well reinforced inside the boat. They really need to be all the way down or at the top of the case, as they are known to break the case if halfway down and the top of the board is in a unsupported part of the case,

Following Sea is a service that is bridging the gap between Sat Phones and SSB nets. You subscribe to the right list and get emails from that net sent through to the sat phone. At least that's how I think it works. https://followingsea.net/nets

The tanks are just holding tanks. The wastewater will then be transferred and trucked to the Greenacres site on Waiheke, which deals with the desludging waste from septic tanks on the island. I'm not sure about water but they will likely tanker it in, which is fairly common for the commercial operations on the island.

I'm guessing this 108yo beauty has no electronics whatsoever? What is the damage its showing KM?

The Deltas do get a bit squirrely going downwind with a bit of puff. I've tipped mine over a couple of times like that, giggling away the whole time! Lots of fun. I've met the designer a couple of times. He has a half size Delta on the roof of his launch. Super cute watching his grandkids row around in it.

Don't forget to make your submission this weekend or you can't complain when they raise the speed limit to 18kts, which is the current favored response. https://akhaveyoursay.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/navigation-safety-bylaw?tool=survey_tool&tool_id=navigation-bylaw My submission: "Auckland Harbour is a small waterspace used by many vessels, often not following the expected east/west route of the harbour. 18knots is far to fast for untrained skippers to operate in very confined waters. Many private skippers do not follow the 5knots with 50m of a another vessel an

You could always swap down to the smaller Yanmar 3ym30AE and SD25 saildrives with the basic dog clutch. This is what we have in Lady Nada (well the older 3YM30 and SD20) and 95% of time is more than sufficient. There are some times when we feel a little underpowered with a big headwind, but that's more just being a little slow than a safety issue. If we had to repower the boat, I'd chose the same engine/SD20. The 3ym30 is a great engine and very smooth. Big weight saving too: 3YM30AE + SD25 - 160kg x 2 = 320kg 3JE5E + SD50 - 220kg x 2 = 440kg But then last time we saw you,

I've been to see them and they are giving me good advice. Thanks for the recommendation.

Us multihull owners love our redundancy for our redundancy! As the alternator belt drives the internal waterpump, we do need to have some kind of spare onboard in case one throws a bearing.

Thanks, That's some really good advice that has got me rethinking what I'm actually trying to do. I don't really need the charging capacity of the stock Hitachi, and I have 3 of them (1 on the engine, one off the other engine and one spare), but the charging capacity of the Balmar is more essential if the sun doesn't shine. We killed a set of AGMs in Tonga when is rained for almost 5 weeks straight, so no solar, and our generator died (RIP you POS!). I'll start my research on those Leece Neville alternators as we have plenty of room around the engine.

On our sailing cat we've upgraded one of our alternators on our Yanmar 3YM30 to a grunty Balmar 175a XT alternator, Balmar external regulator and Serpentine belt kit. This system works well and charges the Lithium house battery. The other engine still has the standard 60a Hitachi alternator with a single V-Belt and only charges the start batteries for both engines and works fine for this, but now I have different belts and regulation on each of the engine, so having a spare alternator is a bit of a pain. I'd like to upgrade the standard alternator to something with a external regu

These are the LiFePO4 cells that we have just got for Lady Nada - 8 x Winston 300ah cells to give 600ah @12V. They get some pretty good abuse in this video without catastrophic failure.

A few more photos of NV from last winter in Tonga and Fiji, where we buddy boated with them. The 4.2m draft and small motor (40hp??) limited her a bit and they needed to follow us into most anchorages, with me relay the depth on the VHF to them. Going into Vulaga, the last part of the reef pass is only about 4-5m deep in Coral and I ended up swimming in front of them to guide them between bombies! Its not my choice of boat for the islands but they got there and did it! Its since been sold to new owners who are keeping it in Fiji.

Most of the Multis I race on use the setup you have pictured but with a block to prevent chafe.