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Sorted thanks to Chalmers Marine in Dairy flat. Knowledgeable and helpful chap

I'd be keen on the black backing to control knobs and a rack/tray out of it if you're breaking it up

The Marina Shop, Whangarei

Soooo R930's are out then 🤣🤣🤣

Bought my boat with no propeller, fitted a Gori 2 years ago and now the prop is sliding back and forth about 10mm on the shaft. Looking at parts diagram it appears that when previous owner lost the prop, a spacer went with it. Boat going back in Friday, not rating my chances of getting a new one in 2 days 😅

In the coastal this year I accidentally gybed the 930 after rounding the Brett. The wind was at 80 degrees apparent just forward of the port stays and we were on port. We were too close in to the cliffs because we had a mare of a gennaker drop before rounding and lost our way whilst grinding the sail in over the pushpit with a cabin top winch it took 10 or so minutes and my co-skipper (who is a Diabetic) then had to go and lie down in the cabin for 20-30mins while he recovered from the effort. So I'm tight reaching in about 15-18kts with a full main and #2 heavy up, jib is slatting

Watch out for that guy Seen him do indecent things to old wooden boats

Can also ditch matches and rub sticks together for fire. Or better still eat your Sabre tooth Tiger raw? Got a 25 litre Calorfier in the 1020. Heats up quick, since I repacked the insulation inside the case and lagged all the pipes it'll stay hot overnight. IMO if you have an engine driven fridge/freezer it's a no Brainer. Plus, the extra fresh cooling water capacity must make engine cooling circuit more efficient?

It was pretty heinous at the Brett. We went through a couple of hours before the incident, and the sea state was all over the place. An accidental gybe would have been pretty easy to have happen. Breeze was anything from 20-30kts and shifty. Really sad for crew and family, and also race organizers.

I like it.

Wee yacht moored off the beach, mainsheet has come adrift and the boom is thrashing about in this Easterly rubbish. It would be a grim row out at the moment but someone may know the owner 😅

I've often considered it But I reckon running extra halyards, utilizing anchor winch etc can be more progressive than suddenly realizing your rudder is supporting 50% of your hull

Or go on backwards 😅

Was viewing a boat on the hard at Marsden Cove yesterday and afterwards went to the marina to visit a friend who was staying there for a short time was surprised to see a seal swimming around the boats. Kids thought he was great. Most amazing sight for me though was all the Fan Worm attached to the pontoons. Quite pretty I have to say. My mate (who's French) reckons in the med they cut the top off and use the worm living inside as bait, to great effect. Maybe we need to think of a way to commercialize all these imports 🤔

The issue I have (and I would wager I'm not the first to suffer this).... Is that we have a particular trip in mind. Duration 6 months. And although we are a family of 4, part of the attraction (read persuader) for getting this endeavor off the ground with my fair lady is the ability to periodically home other entire families with kids for 2 weeks at a time to break up the boredom for the kids and her. So, myself who would happily go offshore in a Ross 40 or some such now has to look for something that can sleep 8-9, and sustain land folk who don't grasp the concept of not show

Had a look at 1 with the Family and although it was a stunning example, and they tick a lot of the boxes for me, the size of the cockpit was a real turn-off for the misinster of profit disbursement and shoe acquisition. I see it as a good/safe offshore cockpit, she sees it as something where you can't stretch out to sunbathe 😅 I know of a couple that have sold recently for well under what you'd expect, I recall them being over $200k not THAT long ago.

My old one (Gaucho) was I believe built 86/7? I seem to have 85 locked in my head as design date but could be wrong. Gary from Leading Edge boat builders in Beachaven is restoring Aqua Vitae and seems to know pretty much everything about kiwi yachts. Look him up or head to the SR26 page on Facepalm. Great boats - good luck!

We were in Longhaul ona wooden 30 footer and finished just before midnight. Spent about 2 hrs drifting NE of Rangi light avoiding the tide in zero breeze but never got bored as we were defending our lead from a few big boats. Change of tide bought a fresh breeze line which we hooked into and flew to the finish... great fun 👍🏾

Not a kiwi boat and $75k north of budget

Only issue I have is draft. 2.2 max. Otherwise I'd e converting a Ross 12 to Pacific cruiser by now 😉

Yeah old listings A couple in OZ at the moment

Looking to get out of the 1020 and replace with something suitable to take family to the islands next season. The 1020 is such a good boat that it's bigger Sister would seem a good way to go. Anyone have/know of one that may be coming up for sale? Cheers

Today feels like it should have been the day 🤪

Looking like quite a different breeze to the first race for this Saturday - not very SSANZ-ey at all! Huey must have got his dates wrong? 🤔

I must admit I have been out on 2 handed races in the past, early hours, sleep deprived and approaching commercial/fishing/processing boats with all kinds of lights coming off them. Worked myself into a lather trying to decipher what they were up to, imagining sub surface tow cables, networking net dragging trawlers etc etc until I get to the point I have to wake the off watch crew for a second opinion or just tack/gybe and get the hell away from them. Although the off watch crew has also told me in great detail about the rabbits that managed to stay 1 or 2 waves in front of the bow