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Addem

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  1. I'd appreciate some feedback as to the reliability of snap shackles for spinnaker sheets.

    On our previous boat (Challenge 29) our practice for dropping the kite when reaching was to ping the guy at the pole.  We know have Pork Chop, an Elliott 10.5, and with the greater loads we find the Ronstan type clip (right hand pic) won't release easily. We've had the ring strip out twice.  I like the spike type clip (left hand) but we had two of them spontaneously release while the Genniker was flapping away, which is not desirable.

     

    So, question is:  What is the recommendation for use on larger boats?   

     

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  2. The annual Legends Regatta is on again this labour weekend at Great Mercury Island, organised by Mt Maunganui Yacht Club.

    Entry Details are at http://www.mmyc.org.nz/legends/.

     

    This is a great weekend event with start lines available from Auckland, Whangamata, Whitianga and, of course, Tauranga.  The Whitianga start line is especially suitable for the trailer sailor who is looking for something different.

     

    It's a social occasion as much as a regatta weekend with two semi serious short races on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and much socialising or fishing/diving time in the beautiful Mercury Islands.  

     

    There is heaps of spot prizes and a substantial main prize, courtesy of Burnsco.

     

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  3. And if a Harbourmaster has the power to do this then why the hell aren't they utilising this section when some of our "peers" in the stinkpot world set off in small ships, overweight with no lifejackets!

    Case in point: two guys were rescued after capsizing a 5m tinnie at the maketu bar in the weekend heading out in "harsh conditions" to set a net.

  4. . The only tricky thing I remember is trying to get the far end of the pole into the ring on a bumpy day. ? The kite pole thing I mean.

    That's why we used a plastic tube. One person can slide it in while the topper is taking the weight. No clips required until the end of the day or someone in the cockpit can secure it while the foredeck get on with tidying up.

     

    We've got a 4m pole.

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    One of the reasons I have never had a keeler , apart from the fact I don,t like leaning over or sinking,

     

    Can't say I'm keen on the sinking part. Hasn't happened to me yet. Am I doing something wrong?

     

    is sailing really in decline? I know club membership is. But are there less sailors? Is this as a percentage of population or in absolute terms? Does petrol prices have something to do with it? Perhaps it just that sailing had its heyday in the 70's-90's and there are too many other things to do for leisure?

     

    One aspect is certain, boats like houses are much bigger than they used to be. Who'd contemplate building a quarter tonner these days? Or 28 footer? I'm reading a book from the 70's where the common opinion was that 25foot was the perfect size for a cruising couple.

     

    I've tried the trailer sailer and the swing mooring but I love the step on convenience of a marina. I doubt they are cheap to build.

  6. apparently 40-50kph

     

    which is pretty quick

     

    http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/tsunami4.htm

    That's what I thought. IT my point was that it's the volume of water that is behind it which is more significant than the height, which will change as it hits the shallows and the again as it lands.

     

    As a lay person I have no idea if the 30cm is the height mid ocean, at the beach or as it washes through my house. So I don't know how to react.

     

    Last time there was a tsunami warning, I think from one of the Chilean eargquakes, a host of people around the east coast went down to the beach to watch because they didn't comprehend that 1m or so of tsunami is a mighty dangerous beast.

  7. question so will post very vague info that can be interpretted so many ways it could never be seen as incorrect, "the wave height will be over 30cm" em, todays swell is 1.2m (made that info up) so i am sure the waves will be bigger than 30cm no matter what. but when there is a 30m wall of water bearing down on us, the civil defence were correct. "see we told you it would be over 30cm.

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    I always wonder about this too. a lay person (like me and most of us) wouldn't know the difference between swell of 1.2m and a tsunami of 1.2m. I think the difference is that it's the volume of water behind and the speed it is traveling that counts not the height. Similar to the Bristol tidal bore.

     

    I barely raised a eyebrow at a 30cm wave. But if they said something like "a wave which can penetrate 2km inland at 30kmh" that's going to get my interest.

  8. Myth busters proved that if you run in the rain you get more wet than if you walk. Ergo, absent of AIS and English Channel situations if you go slow you will hit less things. Pure science right there.

  9. The olympics is generally a young person event. There is nothing stopping an old codger qualifying in any class (or sport for that matter) but they just don't want to put in the grind or lose the physical edge or both.

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