jonathan

The 20m-long boat, named Jungle, left Picton a week ago, heading for Tonga

just saw that, anyone know what reef they are on?

Poor Gabby helming / foiling / holding main sheet..... Doing all this while having a slower boat.... (we are sorry for the language that Gobby just spurted....)

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11790545

tuffy - tell me more , haven't thought about domestic but why not..... if they done work on boat I could move to my mancave..... wheels - i have seen retrofited euro 115's dam its a nice light......

No political party has an answer to the globalisation of labour intensive industries.

yeah its a nice cheap boat and if you raced offshore you would have no chance in either the cruising or main racing fleet on handicap or line.... nice cruiser tho, but i personally would rather have a more protected rudder... "noted title of thread race fleet"

Should have qualified This is internal lighting..... I am not ballsy enough to go led on Navs yet. Even at trade that hella 115 is a lot of beer tokens , have seen them installed tho and wow

I am sure its been covered but I could not easily find via search. I have 5 lights I want to replace, I really like the Hella Euro 115 but at about $145 a pop I find myself looking at alternatives. I want a lot of light as the interior is darker teak.

dinghy fleets are growing in AKL, no marina fees, low cost, true class designs etc just sayin many of these fleets cost less then westhaven fee;s alone..... and no need for handicaps racing is racing, our old mismatched fleet are turning into cruisers as its impossible to find a class left barring y88 and perhaps bumper boats y11, ross 9.3 so many possible classes have fallen apart as people "optimised" them so they could win on phrf in coastal etc, prods gennys etc etc

As i see it the problems for REAL GROWTH in keelboat racing in NZ All the new boats are too expensive for current small boat particpants - thus no new class.. well there is its just 50 + foot long All the old boats are different and people are sick of phrf racing lottery Lots of our race results are predetermined by weather ie uphill vs downhill Not enough windward / leeward racing. Club handicaps worse the PHRF Costs thousands to park your boat as needs to be close to westhaven (i do see increasing panmure fleets tho) I cant see why offshore race changes the above at all, jus

Is there anywhere you can download an analysis of all yacht entries/exits from NZ per year etc? Would be interesting to see how the NZ cruising fleet has grown/diminished over the years...

you can get a lot cheaper then this one.... IE you can land a 100W for about $145 nzd these ones are cheap as chips in china http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1257706302 but its not the same construction, been doing some reading

I will do $350 for you.... charlie ash

looks ok quality not cheapest

Found an aliexpress sellor, have a few on the way

i didn't need a stability thing for cat 1 in my hans christian, while they are slow them seem to float well, but i hear race inspectors descretion, choose your cat 1 inspector carefully. I need new wire.. stainless fails badly even though it looks ok...

Only after battery charging on tamaki river piles... have a genset onboard, thinking the 100W would be fine

Burnscoe have a 130w semi flexible and mppt controller for $449 100w setup is $349, any thoughts on the panel itself? http://www.burnsco.co.nz/shop/rv/electrical-lighting/flexible-solar-panel-130w

the solution is small boat racing 470's etc, young people don't have dosh for bigger or moored in marina boats too busy saving 20% deposit for a house

That pretty much sums up keelboats at the moment

not selling tap anymore but the holding tank is now $100 http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1258228572

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i think that one is a bit big mate... will post dimensions