Ed

Watch your mainsheet system. Roachy sails like to have oodles of leach tension to standup the top of the sail properly, which can lead into a spiral of more mainsheet purchase, stronger boom, bigger traveller, stronger back beam to cope with it all. Not saying its a bad thing, just something to be aware of.

z pier, you didn't say it had to be free

Sounds suspiciously like revenue generation for the tow trucks. What's the bets it will be pay and display like z pier by the end of the year?

I think that would work. I can have a look on Tuesday when we rig the boats for bay week

Use 6 mm dynice ( nee dynex) for the connection tee ball to jesus ring. Luggage tag to the ring and the tee ball before inserting into the mast

metal man, metal corp, sims pacific, they'll all give you 60 to 70 cents a kg, maybe enough for a box of beer or two

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10546486

Is there a special category for boats who's crew weigh more than the boat?

Best bbq mount I have seen is one bolted onto the end of an old winch handle. It then hangs off the winch, is off the deck, and can be swung out off the way when you have finished cooking

If space is an issue get a scrubba bag. It's the dry bag mentioned above, with a washboard like surface on the inside, and also doubles as a dry bag. $70 at burnsco http://www.burnsco.co.nz/shop/shop/scrubba-wash-bag Can,t see it being overly efficient with water though

That's the thing, there is no bid, 50th is the opening price

I remember one fireball where the correct amount of rig tension was that which would just still allow the center board to be moved

Not as mad as you need to be to sail a lump of concrete

Yep, always makes me chuckle as they don't live on waihiki

When you said you had bought a green trimaran I thought it was timberwolf...

I think it is crush damage, as the damage starts in the middle of the case and radiates out. There is no tension connection between the middle of the board and the case If it was tension, I would have expected crack to form at the ends and work in. What is key here is understanding what the failure mechanism was: too much flex in the bottom of the hull causing the fibre grass to break? Opening in the base of the hull too large causing point loading of the board onto a part of the case? localised crushing of the core behind the board (unlikely with ply, unless it has got wet and a bit sp

Sorted now, but thanks anyway

Has anyone got a car to suit the Ronstan series 32 I Beam (RC6320) track that they would be willing to part company with?

I'm still trying to think of a one design class in nz with 11 effectively identical boats that could get cat2..... S34 maybe? Not particularly identical these days Y88 - long way to gissy in one of those Err....

Was that this year?

It's a local yacht race with local boats, so a local handicapping system is appropriate. The cost and hassle of IRC isn,t required, espically so for endorsed.

Yep, forestay tension is all about mainsheet We werent playing the main sheet up wind, just the traveller

The rudder blades are pretty good, nothing major on either. It's not a stall, the reason I say that is earlier in the race we sailed through a wake or something that tripped the flow on both rudders, wierd feeling, like there as nothing attached to the tillers. A quick wiggle of the tiller, the flow reattached and we were again. We didn't have any issue boosting downwind with the kite on either gybe, so I'm thinking more and more its a daggerboard issue

Port for us - something weird going on....

If I had weather helm on both tacks I would indeed be looking very carefully at the rig. we were on the no2 jib, and sheeting was consistent, its was on every tack that port had weather helm, starboard was finger tip control. If it was a foil or rudder rake, I would expect to feel it on both tacks, but I'm not (cassette rudders by the way, so no chance of kicking back. It seems to be pointing towards a foil twisting when loaded in a particular direction, time for a close look at the rudder cassettes and daggerboard cases for cracks