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    Auckland-Noumea

    in ShortTalk

    Posted

    Its funny and sad that back in 2007 I took my boat into the pacific with a cat one certificate, if I went agin now with the same crew, many who have 10,000's nm's.

     

    We would have to get more theory to satisfy the pen pushers, yet you can climb Mt Cook without a climbing certificate.

     

    I can register my boat in South Africa for 545 rand.....  if I go again, I will be at cat 1 level safety wise and flying a SA flag

    Auckland-Noumea

    in ShortTalk

    Posted

    its because the people who issue cat 1 also sell the courses necessary to get the crew up to speed, irrespective of their offshore experience, theory in a pool counts for more....

     

    little segregation of duty or revenue

    Filters

    in TechTalk

    Posted

    Funny you say that as I changed the filter and had a persistent leak around the gasket on my old Perkins 4108, i left it as it was really slow, will check the filter make now....   I need to completely clean out my Racors, has not been done of a long time.

    Nz yacht in trouble off Fiji

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    At 10 knots you are only 20 mins away from a reef 3 miles away.    At night 20 mins can go real quick if you have any problems and you also know you can;t climb, due to no solid backstay, you dont want anything in front of you full stop....       30 tons of yacht with no backstay doing 10 knots just doesn't spell enough maneuverability  to me at night, when you think you are 3miles away from an unlit reef.   I am real glad they are ok, I just don;t think things leading up to it where prudent

     

    We have all heard stories of people who where sure in the pacific they where a few miles away....

     

     

    If they had that speed they could have way pointed 20miles below that entire system when they where like 30miles away then headed north up towards fiji....   probably only adding an hour or twos sailing,   more islands on that line further north but again WIDE berth due to inability to climb in an emergency...    Or wait till daylight if you do need to thread needle

    Nz yacht in trouble off Fiji

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    Only after they hit the reef, lost rig so lost most comms including stuff like sat phone in dodger,   SSB ariel etc, they said king tide hid reef from radar, they where doing 10 knots when they hit, they must have had steerage.   I don't like threading the needle in daylight let alone at night at that speed.   

     

    If they only had paper charts at that point wouldn't you just sail well low of all danger like 15-20miles at night and only approach anything during the daylight?    

     

    I have setoff windward in the pacific at midnight to avoid really heavy headwinds,  and it gives me the Sh&ts everytime

    Nz yacht in trouble off Fiji

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    Lots of boats have been lost at night thinking they where x miles away from an unlit reef.

     

    Lesson STAY WELL away from everything at night.

     

    There isn't a lot of hazards south of that reef,  its almost a wing mark on the Minerva / Fiji sail.  

    Nz yacht in trouble off Fiji

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    "The plotter and the radar both said we were three miles off but the two plotters were incorrect by three miles so we just hit the edge of the reef," he said.

     

    Bloody close to even be three miles off at night with no backstay....

     

    My boat, as straight spreaders, once backstay was lost you would want to get spinnaker halyard cranked on backwards and possibly go up and add another halyard so you could spread then like running backstays...   then use inner staysail and a possibly partial unfurled jib depending on wind strength. 

     

    I would be trying to stay a bit further away from things at night. 

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