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Priscilla II

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  1. Hah just perusing her vitals refrigeration for 300lbs of meat fuel 500 gallons fresh water 500 gallons 16hp Lister swinging a 24x24 prop with a auxiliary Lister 8hp driving another prop or a 4kva generator both engines ran through a 20 gallon fresh water tank before exiting to a keel cooler for hot water shower. Waihape was no ordinary yacht designed and built by no ordinary character.
  2. https://yachtee.blogspot.com/2014/08/voor-ben-mijn-nederlandse-vriend-5.html
  3. And orchestra conductors poo pipe engineers fishing boat crews etc etc.
  4. Cup ain’t on this weekend.
  5. Be keen too. Some renderings from WBF. RB having a moan about plagiarism crikey man it’s a boat... http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?211858-Design-Plans-similar-to-PT11&highlight=pT11
  6. Don’t prams tow like a blunt turd?
  7. You will be very old and very grey by the time you get to and from North Head with the traffic the way it is and bugger all parking.
  8. Always liked the big deep cockpits on Clarks designs.
  9. Yup she went to Perth WA renamed Stealaway. She was moored in Motueka when we looked at buying her 20 years ago. I will dig out some pics and post.
  10. Yup really. https://www.noonsite.com/news/nw-spain-government-introduces-a-no-sailing-zone-following-29-incidents-between-sailboats-and-killer-whales/
  11. They should have registered the Anita as a super yacht what a complete fiasco. If you have a bulging wallet then the borders are open but not for humanitarian purposes. Superyachts entering NZ border can quarantine at sea - if they spend millions in repairs before America's Cup. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12367974
  12. One tuff sailor and one tuff boat. A dash to shelter Tue Sep 22 2020 By three o’clock I had had enough of the incessant wind and decided to look for a more sheltered position. The best option was Blanket Bay down the end of Thompson Sound and at confluence of Doubtful and Bradshaw Sounds. It looked protected from these winds by the 1200 meter Mt Grono and had a series of little coves with established stern lines for mooring to. So I slipped my overworked headline and motored out into the Sound. Of course it hadn’t calmed down at all from yesterday. In fact the wind was even st
  13. https://givealittle.co.nz/donate/cause/cavatinas-solo-circumnavigation-of-nz
  14. https://medium.com/@davidcoats_nz/the-captain-and-his-crooked-tailed-crew-remembering-evan-logan-327ae36292c6
  15. Many many moons ago used to be a hardware store on Broadway New Market that had ladders on rails to reach the stock if it wasn’t so long ago and my memory corroded by the passage of time I would tell you the name. As a young chippie used to shop here for hardware and supplies.
  16. http://www.balta.fr/gorfouz.html | L Now white topsides.
  17. https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/375404/how-nz-took-influenza-to-samoa-killing-a-fifth-of-its-population
  18. Have long admired his designs Astrolabe Hermes Quintessence Chivas Regal Sweet Reason Chaos etc does anybody have information on Bruce Clark himself.
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