Berend de Boer
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Pretty sure they have balsa core above waterline if it bothers you.
What does that mean? I thought balsa was only used for the deck?
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What do you guys know about the Easterly 30 Keeler?
Goal is coastal cruising, i.e. Hauraki gulf, sail to Bay of Islands and further up, longer term goal sailing around NZ.
I was looking at H28, but the Easterly 30 definitely has more room, a lot wider.
I'm interested in how it sails. What would be typical speeds if trimmed well and with favourable winds?
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Storm sails. Have leisure furl main, furling Genoa and heavyweather Jib that has soft hanks to removable inner forstay. Plus large diesel (110 hp)
As I understand it the inspector is pretty flexible as long as he can see you have thought through the issue, and you can explain your alternative plan. I.e. you need to address the topic, not do it exactly as it is written. But let us now.
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I guess I mean how crowded are the anchorages, and can you actually get on the moorings?
Can't answer that in general. But we were there in September during the Australian school holiday, and we mostly anchored as we prefer it a bit away from the crowds. Probably most moorings were taken during that time I would say. Definitely not crowded according to my definition, but it's not lonely.
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how's the anchorage/mooring situation?
I'm pretty sure all boats come with the cruising Whitsundays cruising guide, so you get all the spots. Easy anchoring, lots of mooring options too.
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I had a great time there. On a 32 foot. Did it 5 days, as that was all I had at that time, but should have done more like 10 days.
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I support extending the wharf. By digging a canal on the shore.
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She said she was able to repair the second watermaker with parts salvaged from their first. She also claims to have restored her boat. So certainly would indicate technical abilities.
On the other hand, how common is it to have two watermakers? It seems these things are pretty expensive, so is having two common?
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Here link to interview with a completely different story than you have seen so far:
Forget everything you have read on the fake news sites. In this interview they appear to be knowledgeable.
It appears they had a force 11 storm on day 1 (hmm), then did fine for a long time, their spreader broke, but they arrived still fine in Kiribati. The boat was too big fit into the lagoon there they claim, so they decided to continue to the Cook Islands. Arriving in that area, and due to counter currents they decided to go North. That was May 25. They lost the ability to start the motor due to flooding of the boat caused by rain. Then they arrived in the "Devil's Triangle." According to them this was Tiger Shark territory.
They had two water makers, the first one failed.
Other's pointed out they had a wind turbine and solar panels, so that seems to have provided the power for the water maker.
Also the lady on the left claims she repaired this boat for 2.5 years before they set off for a three month cruise in the South Pacific.
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In the mean time every fake news newspaper has printed this story and received the click bait. Job done!
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And Krakatoa II did too I think, just got dropped off by a drone or something
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It feels I just got home, and these guys are already at Cape Brett!
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And here is the story where they left off: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/201848914/new-zealander-feared-for-his-life-in-fiji-yacht-crash
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Well one more, it seems the free NZ nautical charts + free OpenCPN gives you the right position. Why would anybody carry CM93? Old equipment on plotter?
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Should have stated that I didn't expect the reef to be visible, but "hearable" i.e. the "booming" would stand out or not?
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My OpenCNP with NZ raster charts also seems to have the reef in the Google Earth location (switching between them) and entering above coordinates.
Or perhaps I completely read the chart wrong, so please let me know! It's a trip I would like to make one day, so better get the learning curve of reading the map started before I hit a reef.
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Be interested to know what charts they were using.
My Navionics Android tablet app has the reef at the same location as Google.
Given the reef is almost 3 kms across, I'm surprised you could miss it. Never been on a yacht close to a reef at night, so no clue if what I'm saying is true
PS: I'm assuming the location of the reef is 21° 2′ S, 178° 51′ W per some Wikipedia page I hit.
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Indeed great video. If you do another one, can I suggest at least 720px uploads? 480p is a bit small these days.
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I have downloaded the app on my new phone, does anyone know how to get charts on to it?
I think there is actually a download option (perhaps you need to enable a plugin, can't remember), but the screen layout is so screwed up, it's basically impossible to reach the right buttons. But as ballystick said, that's the easiest.
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Berend, like the old 2400 baud modems, that is the MAXIMUM speed it can do. In my experience (admittedly limited wth the irridum go) it virtually never acheives that, and is not practical for we browsing. Have you actually used one for this, or are you just reading the specs?
My experience is that a Pactor 3 over SSB is normally faster to download a grib or email, and the Pactor 4 MUCH faster....
Unfortunately I'm old enough to have used 2400 baud modems, and yes, the good ones did basically give you close to that. And indeed, was just reading the specs. So if the 2400 baud is only true under rate circumstances, please disregard, I really was under the impression the 2.4Kbps was pretty guaranteed (given you can get 300Kbps satellite connections easily I thought the 2.4Kbps was just them limiting you, not an issue with the technology).
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On the Iridium Go speed: it's similar to a 2400 baud modem (that's very old), so that's 2.4Kbits/s. Note that your typical ADSL does 1Mbits/s. Or in kilobytes, it's about 0.3 KB/s versus 100KB/s. That's a pretty huge difference.
But you probably can use the internet, with special precautions: use a text based browser (such as lynx), or try browsing with images and javascript (and probably stylesheets) turned off. The actual page you are downloading is usually very small. For example the NZ Herald page, as just text, is just 47386 bytes, and would take perhaps 30 seconds. Annoying, but not insurmountable.
The text based browser is easiest, and fastest, but if you want to use FireFox/Chrome, install the Web Developer plugin, which gives you all the techie options to disable these things. It's made for developers, so you get a lot of options.
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Ah thanks guys. Yes, initially I was just going to skip printed charts altogether, but those nice big charts look pretty beautiful
So bought the "Tamaki Strait and Approaches including Waiheke Island" one, just because it looks so nice. And yes, they come with a warning you need to update them (but don't tell you how, but it seems you can download the notices here).But the plan is to use OpenCPN (on phone) when sailing initially, just starting with baby steps.
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Having just completed my level sailing 2 course, we got introduced to nautical charts, actually quite a fascinating subject. As forum members here seems to have decades of experience sailing in NZ waters, perhaps you can give me some feedback on your experience with these charts:
1. Are they accurate, in the sense that you personally have never experienced a rock/reef not in there, nor know anyone who has?
2. Are you so convinced they are accurate that you would be happy to plot an entire course in NZ waters you haven't sailed in before, check with your GPS you are not hitting any rocks, enable the auto pilot, and go to sleep (obviously assuming every traffic moves out of your way, just a contrived example to know how much people would trust NZ charts).
3. How accurate are these raster charts for GPS purposes, correct within a few metres according to your experience?
Please feel free to refer my to other posts on this forum, but didn't find any on this subject. Thanks for any feedback!
Fatality - Northland
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NZ Herald says the fourth winch was a body recovery, so had already died by that stage.