[Poo pipe part 2]

We've just come back after 3 months away. Fresh as. We flushed with fresh then a squirt of dishwashing liquid.

[Poo pipe part 2]

If you leave the old hose in the bilge you won't be able to get close to your boat and the neighbors may ask you to move

[Poo pipe part 2]

Everything you have salad, pour the leftover dressing down the loo. Vinegar for calcification and oil keeps the rubbery bits lubricated.

[Poo pipe part 2]

CD has it. But the best solution is to replace the hose.

[whoops]

Isn't that a bit like buying a house then complaining that the neighbour's house isn't nice enough?

[Coastal 2023]

Any more info yet?

[DIY Wind vane tiller]

That's what we had on Chubasco. Brilliant 

[Parnell Poo Pipe]

+1 for the airhead 

[Parnell Poo Pipe]

All this makes wonder why we bother with holding tanks 

[Neat Video Links]

Another from the less is more category

 

 

[Parnell Poo Pipe]

I say keep on swimming undeterred

 

 

 

 

 

Under turd get it?

[Neat Video Links]

Cruising on a different scale 

 

 

[Cruise ship rescue, south of Fiji...]

Better to design a boat where the traveler is not in the cockpit, the boom is above head height,  oh yeah and drop the main early when going downwind in a freshening breeze. 

[Americas cup 2023]

Best keelboat racing I ever did was this fleet

https://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/columbia-5-5-meter-comeback/

 

I was on the pale blue boat.

[DIY Wind vane tiller]

Here's a starting point

 

[Okahu Hard Stand meeting]

Wouldn't it be fun if all the multihulls went to one of the Auckland beaches one day and dried out. Then started scrubbing/sanding/painting. 

[Okahu Hard Stand meeting]

that one relatively small user group can command exclusive use of prime, public, waterfront land - year round - to maintain private vessels is completely unrealistic. 

 

By that reasoning close everything. 

[Okahu Hard Stand meeting]

which will in turn filter sailors through to keelboats), 

Keep this up and there won't be any keelboats left.

[Bosuns Chair wanted]

Same but weiti

[Paint]

+1 for kiwigrip

[Americas cup 2023]

Nope

[This Weekend's Achievements]

All that kind of stuff wait till you have decided to leave. The technology keeps changing (iridium go anyone?) And prices generally trend down.

[The outlook for spring]

Haha. It's coming up to 10 years we have owned BP and I think we've done maybe 6 days of windward sailing.

[The outlook for spring]

I'll settle for sunshine.  Whichever way the wind blows I'll go downwind. 

[Dodger fugly or not]

Not enough camber in the aft bow?