philstar

Heard this from my brother who lives down that way. We had Einstein for a few years and she was beautifully built. Looks like she has a new engine and some good sails. Good opportunity for a youngster to pick up a really good boat! Just letting you know Einstein was racing in the opening day race at Bucklands beach last week and was T-boned - the boat has been written off by insurance. Apparently they were on Port, the other boat was on Starboard, the starboard boat bore away to avoid a collision, mean time Einstein tacked onto starboard to avoid a collision, and the origin

She’s on trade me! Does anyone know what happened! She was owned by my father for a while and was a really nice yacht! looks like a huge hit to the starboard side https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/boats-marine/yachts/keeler/listing/4995332263

Talented young fella died in a free diving accident in Tonga last week https://matangitonga.to/2024/06/17/diving-accident-claims-life-promising-young-athlete-haapai

Faark. I just heard this from Bill. RIP Smithy, my first RNI , thanks mate! Live every day people!

We are pretty sure the boat in flames behind little barrier was the stolen one from Weiti. Pretty sad for the owners. The police are aware of the situatiin I think. Hopefully the cretins will be caught.

Bill from covers and canvas is also a top bloke vorpal blade on here

Snipers white island race. For what was meant to be a light airs race it was looking pretty windy as we approached North head after our motor up from Gulf harbour. The pre-race discussion centered around a fractional kite ( our big one, not the wee flat thing in a sock) and a reef in the main. Max’s logic was this is our qualifier first and a race second, finishing the race and getting to know the Sniper were the priorities of the race. That sounded like a pretty good plan to me. The sail choice turned out to be a pretty good one as both Galeforce and Kick wiped out around us specta

It obviously got caught by rising sea levels caused by climate change. They should have seen this coming Little Shoal bay is absolutely riven by sea level rises and climate change. The science is settled !!

Terrible news. Survivability in the water in 40 - 50 knots is truly limited. Just shows how truly reliant we are on liferafts or a dinghy eh

They look like very nice yachts. Brand new out of the wrapper for 89k seems pretty good value too. It will be interesting to see how they perform against the Sr's and Ross boats.

so you could do a similar set up to the one that Kick and Sniper have gone for. We've both built cedar core carbon prods with static tubes. I was pretty comfortable building the prod and beefing it all up enough to hold gennakers and code zero's. I'm not sure I'd want it holding the rig though although I can't see why it wouldn't if its beefed up enough. Snipers prod is based around an Elliott 7 prod, which has around a 4mm wall thickness, with 4 laminations of 4mm cedar on both sides. There is a layer of carbon in between each lamination. Its then wrapped in 5 layers of carbon uni's and

so whats the end goal? Do you want a longer prod?

Booboo gets to trim the stereo Booboo gets to trim the stereo and the rum cup only

Freeeeedom! will be there with a newly recovered bowchick......hopefully.