Terry B
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Um, Harrytom was saying POSTS. IS, your chart cannot possibly be POSTS per day - maybe views?
If it's POSTS, buggered if I can find that many POSTS. Maybe the figure is VIEWS?
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So, 2 years and a few months after starting this little project, she's finished.
I'm gonna name her BLOO. After the colour and also because I made so many bloo's making her that I swear she has more construction errors than any other dinghy ever made. 😀
I made her with the intention of fitting her on the foredeck of my Whiting 29. Which I sold 6 months ago. So I no longer need the dinghy.
Plus, she doesn't fit in my vehicle so I can't get her to the water to do the maiden voyage. Still, she looks good sitting in a corner of my garden shed🤣
No idea why these loaded upside down, but it kinda suits the journey this build has been................
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Get yourself a copy of 'The Royal Akarana Yacht Club Coastal Cruising Handbook'.
The bible. Really.
Buy from any reputable (that may be a barrier
) marine shop, or there's usually second hand copies on Trade Me.
Hours of fab reading and really good, safe info on anchorages etc.
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As Jon says above, either a darker timber or any old timber and paint it white? You've a reasonable amount of white inside already so might not look out of place?
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Also Fortress Fasteners in Rosebank Rd, Avondale (very close to Anzor store).
They have a pretty good website
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That was a good listen - thanks Aard.
Sounds like a great guy.
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Ta for the thoughts. I should mention that I don't have a trailer sailer. I did years ago, then for 10 years a keeler which I sold a few months ago. So I was just curious given that a keeler has that large heavy beast underneath it and trailer sailers don't. Hence the question as to how a trailer sailer would react to a drogue or lines chucked off the stern.
And I've been in seas on the northern side of Rangitoto in a 40' keeler that were not nice. In a trailer sailer those conditions would have been dangerous. I've sailed from Kawau back to Westhaven in conditions that started as benign, end up running with a handkerchief of a jib in nasty steep seas. Forecasts were all for no more than 15 knots. Sometimes you get caught out even with the best of planning. In a keeler, all good. In a trailer sailer, not so much.
Agree with all the comments re hatches/boards in/life jackets/heaving to etc. Those are basics (although not everyone knows that).
I'm a cautious sailer, I don't take undue risks (anyone who sails with me will be nodding there heads now 🙂).
Dtwo - when I had the trailer sailer I kept it in a lock up at westhaven with the rig up. That lock up went to make way for bloody campervans for the rugby world cup when we held it here a few years ago (but that's another story/moan).
One day I watched a trailer sailer 'launched' down the ramp still with the trailer firmly strapped to it. Trailer had jumped off the towball. Carnage as it careered down the ramp side swiping boats either side of it. Not sure what the result was but I don't think it would have sailed well to windward. 🤪
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I've been pondering. 🤔
I've read a lot about drogues and other options when running before large seas. As someone who only tootles about in the Hauraki Gulf, I've not experienced these conditions - I avoid them like the plague. Or the pandemic.
However these sort safety procedures apply to keel boats.
Does the same principle apply to trailer sailers? Your average Noelex 22 or any of the myriad of other designs in NZ?
Obvious answer is to not go out in those conditions BUT, in NZ, we have very changeable weather and it can get gnarly very quickly.
What say you experienced sailors?
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Can they (whoever 'they' are) use that land for non boat use? Surely there's some land ring fenced for 'marine' use down there?
And if pier 21 is not used (in the future) as a haulout facility - then Westhaven is down to one facility (apart from floating dock).
And whats to stop Orams going?
And then there's none?
No point having a boat in Westhaven if you can't haul it easily.
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Hi 2flit, I googled "boat painter in fiji willie" and came up with a few boat blogs that named Willie as doing a great job. Maybe send the bloggers a message thru their blogs and ask for Willies details - they may still have them?
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Hi all, a 'crewer' has messaged me so these are now gone.
Glad I didn't have to dump them!
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That's right - FREE!
They're used but still work fine - but not full capacity any more. It's just the flexible panels and wires you can see in the photo, no other gear.
I was gonna throw them but I thought maybe some fine 'crewer' might want them?
Just PM me if you do - first in wins...........
And you need to pick up from Sandringham, Akl.
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Not sure if there's been a thread on this before - if there has I can't find it.
I have a number of kids life jackets in very good condition and want to donate them - but can't see anywhere on-line that takes second hand ones. I'm in Akl.............
Anyone know of anyone who takes them? Apart from my local suburban small yacht, yacht club ...........
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Awesome, I've been semi following the build - great to see her in the water.
Those junk rigs have always fascinated me. Something about the way they look.............
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Um, it's not 935 years old, it's (35 years old) - didn't use the shift key very well 😀
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Am I right in assuming you use a 'treatment' to prevent diesel bug?
I've had my 935 year old) yacht for 10 years and never treated the diesel. Never had the bug either. But I always keep the tank full.
I hear (and read) all sorts of theories on the diesel bug - have I just been lucky so far?
I'm starting to think that, for the small extra cost, maybe I should start 'treating' the diesel, just to be on the safe side......... any comments/thoughts? I'd appreciate the advice.
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Steve, you happy with the composting toilet you installed?
Thinking about one next time the jabsco breaks down. Which will probably be the next time I use it 🙂
Apologies for the thread drift..........
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This what I put in the appropriate section...... not the best wording perhaps but it was very early this morning.. 😏
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BP - did you click on the link that IT provided at the start of this thread?
As Fogg says, it's easy enough to do on the phone. They ask you to log in but thats easy - takes 30 seconds to set up a login and password...........
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Please go on line and fill in the survey - it only takes a few minutes.
I've just done it - at the moment the 18 knot votes are winning the survey. Bloody hell.
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So the first thing they talk about is increasing safety, then the first change is to increase the max speed in Waitemata 'zone' from 12 to 18 knots!!!
Makes all kinda sense. Not.
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I have a friend (I swear I do!) who has owned his Clipper for 30 years.
Has raced it in the (distant) past but just cruises her now. Looks after it very well - 'nurses her along' as he calls it.
She's one of the ones named by Arco above.
I did a Coastal Classic on her 20 odd years ago. Lottsa fun, took a week to get back to Auckland
Good all round yacht, usual story - she's old, get a survey............. good luck.
) marine shop, or there's usually second hand copies on Trade Me.
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Awesome BP - very talented 😀