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  1. Faark. I just heard this from Bill. RIP Smithy, my first RNI , thanks mate! Live every day people!
  2. 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.
  3. Bill from covers and canvas is also a top bloke vorpal blade on here
  4. 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
  5. 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 !!
  6. 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
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  9. so whats the end goal? Do you want a longer prod?
  10. Booboo gets to trim the stereo Booboo gets to trim the stereo and the rum cup only
  11. Freeeeedom! will be there with a newly recovered bowchick......hopefully.
  12. philstar

    Bottom Job

    We had a Lotus 10.6 Rewi which was done at Hobsonville marina a few years ago. It cost around 15k from memory. Full plane back, dry out, a layer of glass and epoxy, then anitfoul. The performance difference afterwards was huge I think she lost alot of weight. As far as I see if you like your boat and intend keeping her its probably worth doing.
  13. I've ditched the gate idea, too hard to make it work with an internal track. We got inspiration from Nigel and Cory on Katana ( Sunfast 3600). We're putting an eye bolt at the second spreader and rigging an prestretched 8mm dynex strop with a rigging screw at the base of the mast. It will work the same way as a separate trysail track, we can hoist the trysail on the topping lift or the main halyard. in addition its removeable, light and easy to rig. The Trysail will be rigged with soft hanks. I reckon its a good option.
  14. Hey team I've posted this in its own topic in tech talk but ideas would be great. I'm looking for ideas on a try sail track on Sniper. Its an alloy mast with an internal track. Basically I don't want to put an ugly external track on the outside of the mast and have all the bulk and weight of the track on the mast. Ideas? Can we do a short track at the bottom of the mast which feeds into the internal track? Or another alternative might be a dynex strop which goes from the gooseneck up the mast and we hoist the trysail on this. I think
  15. That sounds like what I'm after. a pic would be great Matt.
  16. Hey team I'm looking for ideas on a try sail track on Sniper. Its an alloy mast with an internal track. Basically I don't want to put an ugly external track on the outside of the mast and have all the bulk and weight of the track on the mast. Ideas? Can we do a short track at the bottom of the mast which feeds into the internal track? Or another alternative might be a dynex strop which goes from the gooseneck up the mast and we hoist the trysail on this. I think Katana uses this. The rig is out of the boat until 21 september and I'm just looking for ideas.
  17. Freedom got a great start at the pin along with String Theory and Exodus. Went well all the way down to browns island with Attitude catching fast. String theory dropped their kite after browns with us and Attitude fully sending it towards rocky bay right in front of Suellens camera boat. Suellen had just started filming us when the Attitude boys tried to steal our thunder by destroying their kite. We carried our kite right down to Rocky bay, then dropped and 2 sailed to passage islands where we hoisted again a little too early. This is where we discovered that if you duck under big leane
  18. Yep very similar hull shape to Charel which has a more traditional cotpit/ dodger set up. Interesting interview with jeremie bayou and sam davies on facebook. They were both saying that when these boats are at full speed you simply can't move around safely, cook, eat do maintenance or anything. Maybe the inside of alex's cabin is just a big pink padded cell........
  19. Yep multihulls are pretty maneuverable and misunderstood. We will generally always prefer to dip a keelboat. rather than make one tack, because then the keel boat just goes high and pinches us out after the tack. I can't see the problem here, the kids on the weta were eyeballing the skipper of the keel boat and possibly ducked him closer than he was comfortable. At the end of the day if they'd hit they would have come off MUCH worse and probably broken their prod. Relax, as long as the skippers are eye-balling each other then you should be able avoid contact. The keel boat on starb
  20. Sniper is IN! 4 Elliot 1050,s and a 10.5 Its gonna be a great race.
  21. Yep I agree on the slow down train of thought. That cat didn't appear to have any escape hatches which I think would probably be a good idea in a cruising cat of that size. 35 knots with gusts and big seas is pretty big conditions for a cat, even a 11.7 metre one !! Not good.
  22. So Freedom had a great race, until we scored an own goal. The video is here, can anyone see our own goal? please ignore the last minut of the vid it extended into nighttime for some reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5adMwDTMYQ
  23. 8 Multihulls to play with! 15 - 20 knots sw breeze. Big send off the start and to Navy buoy Hull flying upwind to Shag island and around pakatoa Screecher reach around top of waiheke. Hull flying upwind to the finish in flat water. And this year we don't have a self-reefing half main WOOHOO bring in on !!!!! FREEEEEEEEEEDOM !! remember no smiling- this is all very serious
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