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I wish it was less than $200 😅 $330 for the panel, $100 for the railblaza Mounts plus whatever the foam, glass, resin, primer and paint cost me. And then there was the hours making it! Oh how I would love to stumble across it mounted to someone else's boat 😉

I did a berth swap for a weekend some years back, put my boat in Westhaven and the other guy had my berth in G H. Came to hop on the boat on Sunday for a regatta and found that it had been chained to the dock. Turns out Westhaven management weren't to happy being cut out of a weekends rental 😬

Of course, the RRP of the stolen items adds up to slightly less than my excess. I've had boats in the river on and off for 20 years and this is the first incident. Biggest pain is the tool bag, although not valuable $ wise - contained 20 years worth of boat job specific items. If you asked me to list it all I couldn't, but you can bet with every little job I need to do over the next few years I will be cursing the bastard! As an aside, the only reason I discovered the theft is because my neighbour had rearranged my pushpit and BBQ for the second time this year so I was on board

Just a heads up. Came back from a Fiji delivery trip to find my boat has been hit by an anti-santa. Small padlocks busted off aft lockers, among other items my tool bag and dinghy fuel containers gone as well as my Solar Panel. Its a 50w Renogy flexible one mounted on a custom 10mm foam and fibreglass backing board, painted 2 pot vivid white. It was mounted via Railblaza articulating bait board Mounts screwed into tapped resin cores. One mount is central and the other set off to to one side. It's pretty unmistakable, will post a Pic. Kick in the dick is they most likely use

Turn up at L Pier tomorrow and you'll be guaranteed a super exciting ride to the bay of islands. Heavier the better 🤙🏽

Oh my He born naked 🤣

AKL Motorway stuff!

Sorted! Thanks Screwball, and enjoy the 'Naki' Cheers

Yeah that first one probably shouldn't have even been run? Second race was interesting, the only difference I can see is that when we win a start we extend for the entire race, whereas this morning the longer the race went the closer ETNZ got to having them. But as Ben said "The momentum's with us, boys" 😉

Yeah it's an 0183 with the multiple female spade terminals. But the Triducer, so speed/depth/temp all in same unit. Are you keen to lend or sell?

Either will do in the meantime.

Ours has stopped reading speed, got one on order but unlikely to be here before the Coastal. Anyone have or know where one could be obtained pronto? 022 044 9171

It's a shame you can't turn them off and just listen to the chat on the boats. Definitely a good line of communication between our 3 guys, all in synch it seems. I did like Ray's comment from the chase boat "Ben's been asking for someone to do that to him all regatta - just glad it was us!" Was a pretty ballsy move considering it wasn't a pair of MRX's bobbing about the startline in 8kts of breeze.

Ben Ainslee certainly knows a "F@$&en W@#&er" when he hears one! 🤣 Toys well and truly about to leave the cot?

I'm heading up to bring a boat back but can't do it till after the Coastal Classic. Been watching these nice highs roll through, quite frustrating! You can bet that from Labour Monday it'll be shite 😅

We had one barge between us and a boat we were passing just off Tapeka at Bay Week. We were leeward boat and had to go down to avoid a collision. Even then his kite Brushed against our spreaders. Silly bastard on the helm just gave us a blank look when we were calling him up. Doesn't fill you with confidence

With NZ's current financial issues, it must work out cheaper to send our Navy vessels to Samoa for a complete Reefhit 🤔

Or Squawk Tops even

I got a Melges 24 tapered carbon prod there a few years back for my 830. It had a small blemish and was half normal cost.

Getting a NTFT "Notice to facilitate travel" made up at Fiji immigration is straightforward if boat owner/skipper is in Fiji. They just email you a copy, you print it off and all good. Not had an issue at the departure airport, AIR Nz or Fiji Air.

Funnily enough the first thing I did was start to unclip the chair from the halyard, but I came to my senses. A slow letting out of the halyard was duly undertaken - after a delay from my mate to snap a few incriminating photos. 😁 When it happened I felt the boat stiffen as it got to the edge of its hull stability, then the downward arc of myself and the top of the mast seemed to accelerate once past the point of no return.

Had my Ross 830 at over 90 degrees with me in a bosuns chair at the top of the rig, and the retractable bulb keel up against the hull. Mast tip hit the water, had a cordless drill, phone, car keys etc on cockpit seat and didn't get one drop of water over the coamings. I remember hanging out in the river strapped to top of the mast, looking at the boat and thinking "So that's why it's that shape"

Pretty good for fishing Jon

Neat unit But at only 6 litres an hour I can't see it being much use for the cruising Yachtsman. However it would be a life saver in a grab bag!