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Just dragged a carbon class jib out of the stack that came with Mean Streak. She’s covered in rust and was built way back by Giddens but most of the hanks unsiezed with a bit of CRC - reckon she’s a race winner!

Trying my hardest not to believe any of the forecasting models ????

I also had a great run with Vivid on my 830, in the Weiti and cleaning regularly for racing. I’ve just applied the same to the 930, by airless. 2 full coats all over and a third on the waterline, bow sections and foils. Went back in a month ago, haven’t cleaned yet but a thin brown coat of slime evident top 100mm. Wipes clean with ease so hopefully will slide off when we motor out for the Enduro????

Still got both these sails, open to reasonable offers!

I’ll have to have a borrow of my missus facepalm... what page?

Maybe I’m destined to be a single handed racer?

Want to enter the above on my Ross 930 Mean Streak but short 3 crew. Ideally a bowperson would be great! Dinghy sailors would find themselves at home on this lively boat... Reliability and temperament more important than experience. Racing every second Sunday starting mid May. PM or contact me on 022 044 9171

I was told to expect nothing but Gybes on the 250 - have I been duped?

Got to say Bruce and the boys at Brin Wilson are a cut above. Happy to have had them hold my hand throughout this one

Thanks guys Entered SSANZ Anzac Longhaul with the other 930 tragics y

Decided I didn’t like the location of a certain rock to the south of Rangi Light during a single handed race a while back, so shifted it a bit. Seeing as how Murray Ross was renowned for designing overbuilt heavy shitters I continued to sail it for a month with the kids on board before finally deciding to pull her out and have a look. What followed was three weeks on the hard whilst the good folk at Brin Wilson’s removed and reattached the dangly bit and I took the opportunity to scrape 20 years worth of Antifoul back to the Gelcoat and start the underbelly process properly. Even with all th

Ask and Ye shall receive ????

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Aaarrrrgggghhh Marshys one went west and my mate forked out telephone numbers for a new one

Looks like Genny gone, will take $1500 for main

Thanks mate will do

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!

Up - open to offers

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

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