Priscilla II

https://www.tipandshaft.com/en/imoca-en/quentin-lucet-on-hugo-boss-we-focused-on-hydrodynamic-drag/

Start delayed. https://www.minitransat.fr/en Interesting rig https://youtu.be/zopn9p6npKI

Plenty of yachts have uncomfortable passages to Tonga.

There’s a interview with Sebastian Josse ex Rothschild where he describes how violent the Imoca designs are in a seaway. The minimal stripped out design philosophy where the emphasis is on automation and the continual monitoring of the physical status of the sole human contained within a hurtling bucking carbon boom box is as Lateral says masochistic lunacy. The deprivation of simple human comforts has been taken to a extreme which in my view will result in more risk than banging into a land mass whilst suffering from sleep deprivation as AT has already exampled. The romance of man alone co

https://youtu.be/BUyxjlDZaV8

Crikey we should of built more 1050,s and 10.5 marinas.

Wright 11m great boat. Three skin kauri glassed large volume walk through transom boom furl yanmar what’s not to like. Vastly different than a Farr in manners less tippy and energetic more a cruiser but not a dog like a Bavaria or Bendy Boy so all you need is a 12m marina and happy days.

Crikey this is what competitive ocean sailing looks like from the skippers perspective. No longer in the elements but tucked away in a carbon boom box.

Beta marine diesels Japanese Kubota engine with British conversion bits. Two different threads and Hex sizes in certain places , duh.

Vinylester also gets the pox too.Your advice to TB is most prudent given 2 points. Very rare for a GRP boat to die from the pox. 29ft yacht ain’t never going to ever recover the cost of a full professional osmosis repair. https://mike-menzies-marine.co.nz/osmosis-blistering/

http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/docs/Volume124/JPS_124_4_02.pdf Interestingly the larger craft were planked to a length of 30 metres.

JB any photos? Crikey shroud poles whats next foils, very Imoca meets AC cat. 25 knots top speed. http://virtual.fijimuseum.org.fj/template.php?id=DTIA&next=DWAC&cat=48

Tupaia’s map. http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/docs/Volume116/jps_v116_no3_2007/3%20A%20new%20reading%20of%20Tupaias%20chart.pdf

Crikey ,Puff are you seriously comparing Tupaia with Rimas. Fark you urgently need to enrol in the newly announced compulsory History of Nz which is now freely available at your local school. Better still read the journals of Cook and take note that Tupaia held a very accurate knowledge of what islands lay far to the west of Hawaii which Cook ignored. The Polynesian navigators successfully journeyed to and returned from destinations across the Pacific and that has never been achieved by a loony Russian nor a cork.

Able Tasman's artist Isaac Gilsemans 1642 sketch shows Maori warriors in twin hulled canoes which would have been both fast and stable.

Back to the sail. Fascinating the detail of the woven panel joins ,the square head and attachments. This sail was delivered by Cooks ship to England. The feathers are a great detail. Next time I order a set from Doyle’s I will include a feather or two as a ode to the great Polynesian sailmakers of the past. Early part of this clip shows how Doyle’s have reached to the past masters for technical advice to weave a proper sail.

Only remaining Maori sail, crikey are those the first soft shackles. https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/atea-otago/31-08-2019/te-ra-the-sail-last-of-its-kind/ https://www.facebook.com/maoritextiles/videos/vb.627280544388219/363332467595847/?type=2&theater

Standen in the Concourse Henderson will make up a couple of stainless ratchet straps to support tank off the plywood. Anzor also stock ratchets and pad eyes in stainless. Cable tie to secure ratchet arm

Japanese find this method effective. https://youtu.be/V2uzRS0-wFI

Mumby 48 Alloy. https://www.multihullsolutions.com.au/boats/pre-owned/sail-multihulls/2018-mumby-48-shindig/

Adding to the chaos the Western exit entry closes permanently very soon. When I questioned the Panukites about what other single exit entry marinas the have visited a chorused reply of Marina del Rey rang out. Crikey aren’t most marinas in the North Island single entry exit so why example one located in Los Angeles unless they had been on a costly foreign juncket.

DF you should know better than to ask perfectly rational questions regarding the wharf alignment but the truth will lay in what developments are to come north of the new Sealink site. This is a permanent facility not just a temporary relocation for AC purposes.

It’s a ethos thing regarding Westhaven and liveaboards. Kevin’s mob and many before simply cannot see the wood from the trees. It will not change and the sea creature vs the management adversarial dance just continues adnauseam. Shame really to see how disconnected management of a marina can really be.

Colin explaining Lagoon 450 weaknesses about a minute in. https://youtu.be/4y-9ea9Nwwc How do you rig a preventer successfully when your boom is so damned high. $1500 pm Westhaven marina fee no thanks. Crikey what would be the cost to haul and hard stand.

Wheels I wonder how much leeway you would get on one of these. Phenomenal lift speed power assisted minimal heel crikey what more could you want in a cruiser.