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    Weaver Danbuoy Manufacturing

    in Classifieds

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    If you want to be part of NZ manufacturing buy this!

     

    The Weaver Danbuoy has been made here for years. I am the third owner and need some cash and time for my RNI endevour.

     

    Easy to build, plenty of room to add your own touch from websites to direct sales.

     

    Currently sell direct to chandleries  such as Burnsco, Caters, All Marine

     

    Start of summer, so time to get some traction and money.

     

    Priced to sell $4000 net

     

    Price includes moulds kept at plastic manufacturers and stock at hand

     

    PM me if interested

    Aluminium dinghy

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    Parkercraft aluminium riveted dinghy with oars.

     

    2.6m long approx. Pickup Parua Bay, Whangarei. Happy to store it once you've paid.

     

    Condition: rough as guts, but has the advantage of no one wants to flog it. In the past 5 years it's sat on the beach and unsecured dinghy racks and not been touched! Ideal mooring dinghy, but expect to get your feet wet when you come back to it. Positivly bouyant but please tie the oars in!

     

    All yours for $150

     

    If you want photos just message me as I'm having issues putting them here.

    Marine pests prompt local hull cleaning rule rethink in northern NZ

    in MarineTalk

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    Alright .... went for a scallop dive inside Whangarei harbour on Saturday 19/9/19. 6m deep, heaps of legals but you guessed it a Mediterranean Fan worm every square 2m. Not attached to live scallops as per some literature I've seen distributed but attached though the silt/sand to the sea bottom.

     

    Please if any NRC etc are reading this, stop charging us. The war is lost, move on and catch the next big thing early this time.

     

    Ps the scolly's are fat and yummy!

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    Suppliers of good quality 316 wire?

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    Hi all looking for a supplier of 1x19 6mm Korean kos 316 wire for standing rigging, (or similar quality alternative). Every supplier I can find sells only Chinese 316 wire, which I don't believe can be trusted, (as steel and tube found out, the hard way).

     

    Thanks for any advice...

    So ..... how did you go? Kiwi Yachting don't do 1x19 anymore and I'm doing my rig. Have asked for a quote off KZ marine.

    RNI fuel requirements

    in TechTalk

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    Currently running std yamy 4 stroke 3 bladed prop. Remember you don't have that extra weight in the stern compared to the 4 stroke. No rules on storage and moving petrol containers around as far as I know.

     

    Have contemplated trading in for a 6hp 4stroke. Thirsty work goes well with that and in a Ross outboard well, it surely would be enough.

    RNI fuel requirements

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    8hp 4stroke yamy, 2.5 litre per hour, 6 knots in virtually anything.

     

    150 miles divided by 6 knots equals 25 hrs. 25hrs times 2.5litres equals 62.5litres to meet ruling.

     

    Therefore 12litres in main tank and 50litres in portable containers. Not a problem for us.

    Insurance for long haul short handed races.

    in MarineTalk

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    I'm with Tower, which I have no problem with BUT they only insure within 50miles of coast. So after reading this forum got in contact with Baileys Senior Risk Advisor, stating shorthanded racing, carbon rig 4 years old, 1982 Ross 930 and RNI entry. Got the following reply  ...

     

    "Unfortunately due to the age of the boat, type of vessel and proposed racing cover it's not one we would be able to arrange cover for. Sorry we can't be of assistance."

     

    So for me it looks like offshore insurance with either Pantaenius or Northern Reef would prefer a local crowd, tried talking to Club Marine but they said no to the carbon mast.

     

    And no I'm not dodgy, two claims on household insurance over 30 years insured.

     

    Have just put in application to Nautical, see how that goes.

    Chains Ropes and Anchors Enduro

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    Start Me Up’s SSANZ Chains Ropes and Anchors ANZAC Enduro Longhaul Report!

     

    The campaign started a couple of months ago, laid up in hospital, realising how close to death I almost was, I was determined to do this race to prove I was back on my feet and going hard to family and friends. Fast forward to last Wednesday, my crew aka Radar realised my #1 was more stickyback than sailcloth and sourced a brilliant Lidgard unit but needed work. Luckily he also works at Lidgards and they allowed us to give this sail a nip and tuck ….. Legends.  Next day, start day, tried to pass ourselves off at CRA as professional sailors, didn’t work, staff member described us as sailing bludgers, just rude!

     

    Anyway, start time I conveniently parked us under the Harbour Bridge without wind so the fellow Ross 930’s could get a head start. I’m a considerate competitor! So off we go, running a #2 and full main, very nice. Hitting out towards Tiri and we made a crucial error, heading out into the Gulf, the old Ross just didn’t like it, thus in a short amount of time our competition made 6 miles on us just like that. So we got on with it and didn’t give up but by the time we reached the Poor Knights we were in a totally different wind pattern to everyone else, now 5 hours at current speed behind similar boats but ahead of a couple. Rounded the Knights, lets see how this newly configured Lidgards #1 goes. Oh yeah, with the wind, not the flashest top end speeds but consistent as, we reeled in people and the ones we didn’t gave up and to me that counts as a win.

     

    Daylight emerged Saturday with several boats within eyesight including Moving Violation a well sailed Elliott 7.9.  We charged slowly down to Cuvier Island knowing we could not finish by cutoff now but determined to finish. Darkness came and nav lights on third night out on a 215 mile race not flash but all good. Interesting light combinations out there, may pay to check yours, one white light or one stern light, or nav lights with a white all round are not a representation of a sailing vessel. Drifting slightly sidewards round Channel Island, then assym up and a bit of wind we’re off. I trawled the kite on hoist and pointed out to Radar that I’d caught a jellyfish! He immediately pointed out that I was a sexually active muppet and had put a hole in it! Just as well my crew is a sailmaker because the hole just got bigger.  Anyway this was just a demonstration of how tired we were. I got the helm and kept myself alert by seeing how many waves I could catch by listening to them, great fun. The finish was a bit stressful due to tiredness but the sense of achievement was huge. Yes it was a RNI qualifier but we had already qualified with the Akarana 350 so it was a classic case of completing a goal that got me out of hospital.

     

    Many thanks to our supporters, family, sponsors and employers, without you we couldn’t have done it. Also to the others that completed Longhaul after cutoff, you all knew you were out of the money but pure bloody mindedness and the determination to knock the bastard off made you finish…. YOU ROCK!!!!

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