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On 18/02/2025 at 12:04 PM, LBD said:
Excellent thanks, that is how I will set it up as well... eventually I will look to link it to my chart plotter as well.
Cheers
Yes when you're eyes have got like mine a bigger display would be good.
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I installed one on the 930 for 3 kings, northern triangle and RNI races.
It's the B&G version. Running it through a zero loss splitter and masthead vhf serial.
Radio is powerful and clear, and the AIS is really easy to set up. All round a nice bit of kit and on a small boat it makes sense to have it in one unit.
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23 hours ago, Black Panther said:
An argument against trailer boats. Gulf harbour ramp around 4.15 today
We went out on a mates launch from Gulf Harbour at 1030, the car park and grass area was just covered in tow wagons and trailers. From tiri to kawau was like the southern motorway on a Sunday afternoon 😅
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Panel before and after... FFS what a mess
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Through the eagle eyes of Josh Tucker, and the audacity/idiocy of the culprit, my stolen solar panel was spotted mounted on the pushpit of a small sailing vessel further up the Weiti River a couple of weeks ago.
It had been disguised by painting it grey (terribly) but was definitely the one I had made.
The guy lives aboard so we stalked him, got a look in his car which had gear of mine in it, and passed the info and photos on to the police.
On Monday morning, police executed a search warrant on the vessel using Deodar. He was arrested and charged with the theft of my gear, is out on bail and back on his boat.
He has a lot of possibly stolen gear, the police want people who have boats in the river to check for any break ins or missing stuff asap. If they can identify more victims they will have more to charge him with.
He's on a small yellow yacht moored close to the old Stillwater campground. Keep an eye out for this P.O.S!
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18 minutes ago, Psyche said:
What an epic stuff up and what on earth is Collins trying to say???
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19 hours ago, Psyche said:
but with the solar panel- an item that new is less than 200 and second hand 50 bucks maybe, that has to be either f-wits, teenagers or a scumbag boatie
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 😉
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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 😬
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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 trying to straighten that mess out. In all honesty that annoys me more than the theft!
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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 used my own tools to remove it off the pushpit 🤬
Moored on 120 near Stillwater end of the river. A mates boat also lost some gear.
Merry effing Xmas eh
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Turn up at L Pier tomorrow and you'll be guaranteed a super exciting ride to the bay of islands. Heavier the better 🤙🏽
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Oh my
He born naked 🤣
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AKL Motorway stuff!
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Sorted!
Thanks Screwball, and enjoy the 'Naki'
Cheers
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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" 😉
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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?
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Either will do in the meantime.
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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
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8 minutes ago, Deep Purple said:
The best part about watching the racing in bed with my wife sleeping and the sound off is not having to listen to the commentary.
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.
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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 😅
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3 hours ago, Deep Purple said:
3 navy yachts entered in Bay Week. Probably in coastal too
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
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With NZ's current financial issues, it must work out cheaper to send our Navy vessels to Samoa for a complete Reefhit 🤔
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2025 Evolution Sails SSANZ Northern Triangle. https://www.ssanz.co.nz/nt-2025/
in ShortTalk
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We weren't surprised at all. The Entertainer is a bit of a jet when sailed correctly and those 2 certainly did that this race!
We had a pretty good first leg, despite me taking a heavy fall at about 11pm off the Cavallis and ending up getting dragged alongside the boat at 10+kts for a bit while my co skipper slowed the boat down and deployed the ladder. Once drying off, getting changed and putting a spare life jacket on (yes, the auto inflate worked) we got back to business although we were at that point operating what resembled a mobile abattoir (Head wounds do make quite a mess don't they!) And we managed to put Doggo on the podium.
Trouble was, I had broken my nose, wrecked my neck and it turns out concussed myself enough that I was basically a passenger for leg 2. With the boat tactics relying on 1 sometimes useful brain we made a couple of bad choices, and 1 total rookie error of not doing a couple of backups despite sailing through a lot of weed, instead just plodding on wondering why we couldn't pull away from a 1020 in under 5kts breeze... fell out of sync with the other light boats and the result was a throw away leg 2.
Last leg was looking like a possible win on the cards till the park up at North Channel, we Zig Zagged instead of just taking it like a man and waiting for breeze to fill in, (the option our competition took)
They all got away while we watched and swore from further inshore, by the time we got going they were dots on the horizon but the breeze, at 16-20kts was just ideal for us to mount a comeback charge.
Started with J1 till clear of kawau, hoisted MH0 and ran both until halfway to Tiri, peeled to A5 as breeze freed up then final change to S1 runner for Whangaparaoa to finish.
Passed quite a few boats including Moving Violation off the Naval Base and rode Carpe Diems transom across the line.
An exciting finish to an otherwise forgettable performance 😉