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But I'm sure I've seen something similar in real life.... not done it exactly, tho

Auto correct! I wonder why Wellington has never entered the conversation.

I wonder why selling Tom has veneer entered the conversation. None of the issues being discussed exist there. There is heaps of space in oriental Bay and a great waterfront for grandstands. Does any one know?

How not. It'd be a big reminisce for me. I used to pedal down there as a kid and watch the citizen match racing. Great grandstand.

.Be careful what you wish for. Retail is about convenience these days. We used to have a hammer hardware 5 minutes drive away at the local shops. A little more expensive than bunnings but easy and convenient when you need a hose fitting or something. Now it's gone and there's are only two hardware shops in Tauranga bunnings and mitre 10 a long drive away. So, I am always happy to support burnsco or smart marine because I'll always want to pop in and buy 5m of rope or 2 bolts to finish my job and won't want to wait days for a delivery. I may be weird but...It means I buy stuff that I c

I worry about low zoom gps losing important detail. My practice when embarking on a new or unfamiliar passage is to get out the paper chart. List the hazards and major way points expected and then transfer to the GPS. I then cross them off as I pass them. For a night passage, an old seadog showed me the benefit of also making a light list. Has proved worth while at least once.

Do it! But Maybe not in 40 knots. First time I hoved to was a disaster and I wish I had practiced first. Was a long time ago (40 years?) off kawau in a ply 21 foot quarter tonner. While being blown sideways the solid keeled dinghy got flipped because it couldn't go sideways at the same speed as the boat and ended up being dragged under the boat. While retrieving it one of the crew ripped a stanchion out of the (obviously) rotten deck as we lurched due to having too large a Genoa. Learnt a lot about the technique though, but have been wary of ply boats since. The corollary to t

93 knots! There's got to be a story in that. I can't comprehend survival at that wind. My worst at 55 knots gives me nightmares still.

Talking with my neighbour in the marina on Saturday and he casually mentioned he was delayed leaving for Fiji as his lithium batteries had swolllen up and he was waiting to get them looked at. He said he thought that there was no charge controller on them. Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen so I asked him to disconnect his cables and perhaps move his boat away from mine. Perhaps I should also move mine away from his?

Same for when someone wants to use the head. Way easier.

Sounds idyllic. Not sure how that tech talk got in your thread. Keen to know where you got that big mat. My wife wants one for next summer. (She just doesn't know it yet)

"witnesses report a rogue wave. Even MNZ have conceded rogue waves are a real thing." On my last cruise in March i was in 25-30 knots SE heading from slipper Island to great mercury. Big lumpy sea from starboard quarter. One wave appeared from abeam much larger and moving faster. It crested and hit athwart ships and moved us bodily sideways, I don't know how far. Tui is a Farrier 41 and we had the Boards up (running) if they were down I don't know what would happen- break the Boards? Flip the boat? We were in +50m water. I don't know what that wave would have done to a boat when i

Just looking at the 1050 for sale reminded me to post this. Two years ago we wrapped our boat dark blue. Looked beautiful. Until bubbles started to appear on the hull. Surveyor tapped and concluded delamination. He said he was working with another boat with same issue. Long story short and $000's later have just stripped and repainted. Turns out the builder didn't put enough effort into prep between layers and the heat generated by the sun on the dark colour encouraged separation. It occurred mainly in the fairing compound so a lucky escape. Not really anything to discuss j

That's a sweet looking boat

Where are you based. Not clear which part of both island you are in.