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A mate of mine has inherited a basket case catamaran and is missing a tracked type gooseneck fitting. Something like the pic - does anyone have one laying around they'd part with? Cheers in advance!

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Big Roach/Squaretop Carbon Main maybe 1 year old. Built by Calibre Sails Whangarei for previous owner but too much sail area for the standard keel. Absolute weapon under 10kts but I have to reef at 15 so no good for my short handed racing aspirations. Mint condition. Comes with sausage bag and Battens. P - 11.0m E - 4.27m MUW - 2.8m MTW - 3.57m MHW - 3.88m Also a near new UK sails Gennaker, Black, used maybe half a dozen times still crisp as. Comes with turtle launching bag, sail is as new. Luff - 14.0m Leech - 12.2m Half width - 6.64m Foot - 6.65m $4k for both sails,

Its certainly a little bit of an involved job but nothing that someone with a smidge of practical abilities can't do. I purchased a Melges 24 Tapered carbon prod and outer tube from Jason at Kilwell in Rotorua, and 'Frenched' the outer into the hull as shown in the pictures. To get the elliptical shape correct I cut an angle on some drain pipe of the same diameter and filed it unit it laid in the right orientation, then traced around it. I laminated a few sheets of thick ply together to beef up the rear bulkhead on the anchor locker to carry the loads, and arranged carbon u

Some pics of my old 830. Best open transom conversion I've seen on one, designed by R Edlin and work done by Chris Sayer. Rasied cockpit floor and completely enclosed outboard well, makes my 930 cockpit feel positively claustraphobic! Its currently on the hard being stored by new owner.

Flexibles seem to be ok if you flex them ONCE... Slightly... and glue them down. Mine were fully mobile and just bungeed/laid wherever they'd fit on a day by day basis while cruising. they'd get wind under them and flap etc, eventually the joiners between cells would fail and that would be it. The problem is a solid 100w panel on an 8.3 meter sports yacht is a big, ungainly piece of meccano indeed and I'm not fitting a bimini

Is it a flexible panel? Had three fail in 2 years, gone to glass/alloy.

Mean Streaks Mean Drift up the Coast: Hard out 8 weeks of prep almost completed in time to head down to Westhaven Thursday afternoon for briefing. Bugger - blowing from exactly where we want to go, so long motor and missed briefing. (I say almost ready as when off watch during the race approaching Sail Rock I took the opportunity to wire up the new gas bottle cut off solenoid in order to boil some water for the chicken cup-a-soup ) Met with my mates Joel and Reece and new rent-a-crew Irene at the Squaddys cooked breakfast, us Sussing her out to make sure she knew what she was getting he

I both resent, and resemble the direction this conversation is taking

Had a couple of messages/texts already, must have been too cheap but looks like it’s sold payment pending - cheers

As title states, tiller pilot came as spare with the boat and I can’t see me needing it. Hooked up to a power supply and sailed around the kitchen, seems to do all the normal autopilot things. Amp draw less than 1.0 on push and pull, compass seems to know what’s going on. Case it good nick no cracks etc. Comes with lead, both parts of the plug but no manual. As is where is $100 Freight extra. 0220449171

Yeah I too am going hard out trying to make the start line. Better book a side of Tazzy D to raft up to in Russell eh

Hi Kelvin I have just taken Mean Streak off a 10.5m berth at Gulf Harbour that should still be available, I was paying $100 a week. Not quite Westhaven but a lot closer to the Coastal start than Whangarei Cruising Club! If you are keen flick me a text and I will give you the owners contact details. Cheers Nigel

Finish of the SSANZ 50. We've had one Glamour race and 3 Shockers, they sure are a tweaky thing.

Cheers Brendan I’ll contact you soon

Anyone have or know of a soft pack liferaft I could hire/borrow for the coastal this year?

Thanks guys ????????

Hi crew Just looking to book a cat 3 inspection for the coastal, I have the list of inspectors but before I start calling them randomly can anyone recommend an inspector based on or near the peninsula? Thanks

I don’t have the time either but she was a good buy at the right moment despite the aged interior/biscuit coloured exterior ???? Things got pretty medieval today...

A couple of weekends work: Sold my 830 Shapeshifter and helped pack her up for a trip to Nelson, drove up to Whangarei and bought a replacement 930, sailed her back to Whangaparaoa, did a race, and started scraping/heating/grinding and sanding the horrible textured feature coating off the saloon ceiling/sides/under decks surfaces. Oh and I need to get it all finished by this weekends SSANZ race ????

I’m doing it on my 930. Will be one way as boat staying up there for Xmas cruise and bay week, currently have no bowman signed up, what do you weigh, what do you drink and how good are you at drinking it?

Bring her out for the Anzac Shorthaul? At least 2 other 830's will be there

Older means wiser though eh Richard ????

Legend! No rush but I'll flick you a P.M

Yeah man If you look under the base of the wand unit you may still be able to make out Noah's signature