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Hi. Can you provide more info for Luddites like me? What us this how does it work. Why is it more promising?

Really? I'd have thought that was asking for a blockage.

And this is what it looks like after 17 years of brewing away.

The conclusion of the tale is that the saw will come out tomorrow. The pipe is I'm too difficult access to fiddle with chemistry. I have two heads and will do the HCl treatment on the other. Basically, flush it through from the bowl to the holding tank. Then let it sit for a day or two and dilute it with lots of water and empty it to the sea. Will probably replace the jabsco pump after.

I fear it is too late and too difficult. Would the HCl dissolve the concretion or just loosen it? Then I'd have to find a way of getting it out. I've come up with a plan to lay a new pipe but now have to think about whether to leave the old in situ or get it out somehow. That waste pipe is hard to work with in the confined space. If I leave it there the pong will stay for long. If I get it out In pieces it'll spill its load all through the bilge (under said floor). No good options really. A case of prevention being waaaayyyyyyy better than cure.

Great idea. Was thinking caustic soda (draino) but acid v alkaline is the question.

Yes I always do that especially white vinegar but boat is new(ish) to me so I guess not everyone does that.

Another poo pipe question unrelated to Parnell. I have a head where the outlet pipe is built in under the floor. It's a fixed floor as is also the shower. The pipe is nearly level and over decades (2005 construction) poo et al has been sitting and doing something to the pipe. It is now seriously blocked through some sort of scale/plaque/calcification (I know it is not calcium but you get the idea). The plaque is like a plaster lining and is now blocked solid. Can't get a wire etc through. We've tried unblocking with all sorts of machinery but think we have compacted it.

Plenty of black sails on Tauranga

The RRS are for most sailing rsces but not all. Any race committee can change them.

Certainly not racing as we know it. 4 crew on a 40ft foiler. No one actually looking at the sails. Auto pilot making ride height decisions. Adjustments all done by buttons. But. Did you notice the amount (frequency and range) of main traveller adjustment? A human would probably never do that much. But there were clearly crews that knew how to get the best from the gizmo's provided and those that didn't. But the results from le French with least time in tbe boat show that the tech can be mastered quickly. Im sure that this is all progress and We

Precisely what we need. Legends regatta - Tauranga to Great Mercury Island. And then NW on return on Monday.

Both fronts fell off.

I think we did. I recall a conversation and I think BP's daughter played with him before he died. And we discussed his boat being for sale.

Yacht is Dutch for fast ship (another Dutch word) and i understand that Americans began using 'sail boat' to distinguish from steamers. So yacht started to be reserved luxury or racing classes. English were more traditional and stuck the older usages. Something like that.

There are indeed 7 ropes: per https://classic-sailing.com/article/how-many-ropes-boat/. Bell rope Bolt rope Tow rope Foot rope Man rope Top rope Heel rope. A Cunningham is not a downhaul. A downhaul is used to pull down a yard. The Cunningham (designed by a kiwi) is used to tighten the bottom luff of a sail. The other duplication terms developed due to local usage. Boom vang appears to be a Dutch term (where we get lots of sailing terms) and Kicking strap an English one- both meaning to stop the boom from kicking up.

Not surprised. I gave up on SA long time ago. It is the wild west of the Web in my view. No wonder a Texan feels at home there. Nautical terms are intended to be clear and definitive to avoid confusion. Hence, there are no ropes on a boat. But when you broach and are laying on your topsides you are also laying on your beam ends.

Agreed. I don't get what they can only do 36 minutes of racing in a day. I like the event but miss the Extreme series where they had a full race card over two days.

It may not be helpful to an Auckland based boat but looks like t there is lots of capacity at Whangamata as an interim.

Ps. I've never really liked Jimmy Buffet but David Crosby had a similar lifestyle.

That is just brilliant. Highlight of my day. You really do need to write that book. Maybe your daughter can ghost write it for you she is clearly talented and charismatic enough.

I think they'll be cautious. They started the trip with 2 reefs and no4 which I'd never used.

I just read the delivery trip of Pork Chop (Elliot 10.5) which has gone from Tauranga to Wellingtton. There's a photo of tooth marks and teeth on the bow as evidence of an Orca bite. https://rpnyc.org.nz/blog/pork-chop-delivery-tauranga-to-wellington-by-barry-carruth/

I'm always afraid of commenting about a lady's, ah, attributes.