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Brave browser... their business model is certainly brave! <sarc>have you tried using chrome?</sarc> I’ll pass on the feedback👍

It was a weird year, because so few boats actually finished. The results above are correct by the si’s, as boats not over the line by the time limit can have their gps positions recorded, and be given a finishing position, but are not eligible for handicap or prizes.

Yeah I get that for people outside the sailing community the reporting can be a bit meaningless. I was more replying to Fogg’s comment about the media coverage dying a death and trying to work out why we are missing part of the target audience?

Considering only 16 boats finished the race the party on saturday night was the best it’s been in years we managed to finish, got in at 1.30pm, nice kite run to the finish with the sea breeze filling in. im interested in the comment about lack of coverage as we put in a lot of effort on the media side The live Event reporting stuff goes through Facebook, the starts were live streamed, and the start video was up pretty soon afterwards, finishing story was up early Saturday morning, live drone footage of boats finishing etc etc we have the usual tracker running for people to

Its gonna be a 3 bottles of rum race

To be fair, this thread is in Marine talk, which is usually has quite well informed commentary. Small talk on the other hand....

Just to preface this, I'm not a bridge, mechanical or structural engineer, so this is all best guess from heavily loaded snafus I've seen over the last 20 yrs IT, you're right Its a reasonably long slender member, so it will have a bit of stretch one loaded. However, I would guess though that the bridge structure itself has moved more that that. If Vic remade the piece to the original dimensions, when you went to install it you would probablly find it would appear to be to short ad the structure will mave likely moved away. The challenge is then to pull the structure back to the c

What complicates the matter is that strut is a stressed member. Fabricating a bit of steel is the easy bit, getting it in there is somewhat harder Imagine trying to replace a spreader, and you have to get the rig tension and mast bend back to where is should (must) be, without touching the turnbuckles or addind any significant weight aloft. Its certinaly not beyond the wit of man to complete, but considering the implications if it goes wrong the amount of planning, peer review and analysis that goes into this will be significant

no it's Friday today 👍

Foiling kiteboarders with a race kite aren't slow...

Tanks Carpe, I;d missed that bit. Oh and BOIGuy, appreciate the links and info, but be nice mate. This should be a good conservation about the new rules, not slagging people off👍

Seems spinlock have a standard (pictured below) and performance version that IT posted this is the double cup tether currently on the fosters website

For example old rule 26.1 Compared to the new rule The words .. crew or equipment have gone?! So does the bowsprit constitute hull or equipment... can;t find a definition quickly of what a hull is and what is equipment. Check rule 14, that's a really big change for some fleets, no exoneration from a minor collision even if you were right of way but could have avoided.

Had a tour around the site on point Erin this afternoon, not my project but a tidy little operation

Understatement of the year award contender right there😂😂