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41 minutes ago, Septic said:
You could at least post a link 🙃
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21 hours ago, ex Elly said:
The American commentator described Phil Robertson as the 'clutch' skipper. He also said that Canada were the clutch team.
And now Danny Lee has done a 'clutch putt'! 🤣 https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/golf/300834723/watch-danny-lee-holes-incredible-putt-for-63-million-win-on-liv-tour
Clutching at straws, perhaps?
Clutch is an adjective as well as a noun and a verb these days
Language evoloution and etymology is very wierd sometimes!
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19 minutes ago, Romany said:
And now from the meaningless graph department.
This came up on windy when i swiped or clicked or something...
Anybody got a clue as to what it means?
Thats the raw weather balloon data, pressue and temperature will predictable change relates to altitude, hence the angled gridlines to provide a straight line in theory.
Red line is temperature and blue line is the dew point
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Reaching strut, it’s for improving the angle to the spinnaker guy when you are tight reaching with the pole almost on the forestay. You rig it usually somewhere inline with the shrouds/ mast straight out the side of the boat, pushing the guy a bit further outboard and significantly reduceing the load on it
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Resurrecting this topic as I found the solution, but haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else. It turns out I wasn't going mad and the system did have an issue. There was a second heading sensor on the network. Turns out the ZG100 stops transmitting heading if it sees anything else sending heading onto the N2K bus(even if its the chartplotter spitting out COG as a HDG sentence).
The solution (cryptically written in the instructions I admit) is to change the instance of the Zg100/point-1 from 0 to 1. Problem solved!
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2 hours ago, GCL said:
All they'd need ... is a reinforce concrete ramp ......
I can't think of any yards in the greater auckland area that you can get to mast up that have a ramp that would suit the trailer and wide multis, and the costs of building one would be significant (even ignoring the consenting requirements)
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3 hours ago, Sudden5869 said:
Fineline Advantage Dyneema is great. I find the limited colour choice, restricts how much I'll use.
If you ask nicely, they'll make it in just about any colour you want....
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Burnsco are showing stock online in most of their stores for orange smokes?
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12 minutes ago, ex Elly said:
Will still require liferaft or dinghy. Not much room for a dinghy on a Piedy!
Coastal is Cat3 minus dinghy/liferaft, got changed a couple of years ago
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If you want to go down the home brew route, hat labs do a NMEA200 development board
https://hatlabs.fi/product/sailor-hat-with-esp32/?v=8e3eb2c69a18
An example of how it has been developed to create a mast rotation compensation unit with an external sensor
https://github.com/randel0/NEMA2K-Mast-Rotation-Compensator
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From their facebook page...
"Hardstand Closure
It’s with great sadness that we need to make our users aware that following a directive from the Orakei Local Board, the hardstand will be closing for good as of the 28th of February 2023.
The decision has left us stunned, especially when all of the board members were made aware that Pier 21 is (and now has) closed for good. Leaving Auckland even more drastically short of hardstand spaces and availability.
The local board recently carried out a very limited “public consultation”, limited as it only consulted with members within the local Orakei area even though the site is primarily used by Aucklander's who do not live within the Orakei area. Additionally, one of the three options that they put forward / sought consultation on (Option 3) incorporates a new safe harbour and tree top boardwalks without explaining during consultation that neither the Local Board nor Council (even in the 10 year long term plan) have any funding to develop this option (estimated at 20 million plus). Additionally, half the “submitters” came from the Akarana Marine Sports Trust / Royal Akarana Yacht Club with 340 submitters supporting the hardstand and 469 opposed (i.e. selected option 3 as their preferred)
A link to the “consultation” can be found here: https://akhaveyoursay.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/the-landing
As part of the consultation process, the Orakei Local Board were made aware of the following:
Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei made a submission supporting the hardstand staying.
Hardstand Viability; it was formally confirmed that the Hardstand returned non-rates revenue prior to the Orakei Local Boards “involvement”.
Auckland’s requirement for hardstands; they received formal confirmation via a letter from the New Zealand Marina Operators Association and The New Zealand Marine Association confirming that Auckland requires more hardstands and that the closure of The Landing Hardstand would be extremely detrimental to Auckland’s marine industry.
Bio Security; they were made aware by Councils own Bio Security department (the same department that is spending millions of rate payers money annually trying to minimise bio security issues in the greater Auckland area) that hardstands in general are a key tool in managing bio security issues and that the hardstand at The Landing provides such services.
Reduction in hardstands in the greater Auckland area; they were made aware that in the last six months two hardstands in the greater Auckland area had closed, and two further were likely to close. Coincidentally, Pier 21 (the yard that hauls the largest volume of vessels in the Auckland area), announced its closure only three days after the board meeting that effectively closed The Landing Hardstand.
Additional cost to rate payers; they were made aware that the Hardstand business effectively covered off all day to day running costs of The Landing (approximately 250K per annum) and that if the Hardstand were to close these costs would have to be met by ratepayers.
All this information and they still opted to close the hardstand in favour of a new $20-million-dollar park that there is no funding allocated to…. and not likely to be for many years.
Doesn’t sound right, does it? We don’t think so either.
How you can help:
•Register via Office@thelanding.org.nz to join our database of hardstand supporters.
•Email / write to the Mayor and your local Councillors and MP’s outlining your concerns.
•Let the local board members that voted for the hardstand’s closures know your thoughts and remember its local body elections time.
There is already a group of both hardstand and The Landing users who have united and are currently putting together a legal challenge, we are fortunate to have several people who have underwritten these costs but going forward we may look for additional financial contributors. We will keep you up to date with the status of the legal challenge via email (you will obviously need to register to receive this).
Local Board members that voted in favour of closing the hardstand*:
•Scott Milne: scott.milne@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz / 021 876 326
•Sarah Powrie: sarah.powrie@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz / 021 142 2913
•Margaret Voyce: margaret.voyce@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz / 029 880 9900
•Troy Elliott: troy.elliott@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz / 021 658 769
*details found on the Auckland Council website
Local Board Members who supported the hardstand:
•Troy Churton
•Colin Davis
** David Wong abstained from the vote **
Other useful contact details included:
•Councillor Desley Simpson: desley.simpson@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz / 021 971 786
•Auckland Council Councillors: https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/.../ward-councillors...
•Mayor Goff: phil.goff@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz"-
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Went to the boat, switched everything on and it all works fine now,
Something must have got a bit confused (bit like me sometimes😣)
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Didn't get much time to trouble shoot this at the weekend, but looking for pointers on what to check:
N2K network,
2x triton displays, Vulcan 7R, Lowrance point 1 (B&G ZG100 equivelent) compass/gps, terminators on both ends of the backbone;)
When the Vulcan is switched off, the tritons will pick up heading from the point 1, when its switched on, they won't. Switch off the Vulcan again, and the heading reappears on the display.
When the vulcan is on, I do have an option on the triton to use COG as heading, but thats nots ideal obviously, I want true heading from the compass.
Feels like something in the Vulcan is spewing out a network config thats over riding the compass I think, what should I be looking for?
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A driftathon and then a dying breeze, basically impossible to handiap.
Whats the bets the final race is 20-25+ kts🌬️
Gotta say, racetrack is an incredible resource/dataset, both from trying to set handicaps, to even just researching and tracking down boats. It's also in some cases really edivent when ownership of boats changed as the rating shifts significantly.
Long may it continue!
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The electric ferry that has been operating in Wellingtonn for the last 4 months hasn't really made the news snice coming into service, so I assume it working fine down there?
Anyone been on it?
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31 minutes ago, Ptown said:
There wasn't last year!
Hence the "probably" 😂
To be fair, we got a nice sea breeze in the Bay which got us to the line inside the limit, there were a lot of boats infront of us on the water who pulled out before that, but yeah, that was the lightest race in a long while.
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13 minutes ago, Shagger said:
What is the wind direction going to be?
That will determine our entry status.
Yes, there will be wind, from a direction.....probably
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9 hours ago, Psyche said:
I'll take a guess that most of the boats only use PHRF for SSANZ, none of the clubs use it for harbour racing.
Squaddie does PHRF results as well as PHS
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Yes pine harbour does, also the landing at Orakei
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What sort of boat Leon?
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As someone who works in a numbers based engineering world I remember spending far too long trying to work this out, then being totally, unreasonably even, upset once it was explained.
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For an 8.5 multihull that will get cleaned regularly do you see any benefit in going for a harder antifoul and burnishing?
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How much of the epoxy market is finished product shipped in and how much is contract manufactured onshore?
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TP52 Med Cup boats are nuts, TWS 14 knots, TWA of 36°-38°, Jib lead about 3.2° off centerline r. 9.1 knots boat speed
Also that jib likely costs more than my entire boat!
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The Harbour Classic - 1st April
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We had a fitting on the tiller connecting bar fail, gutted to have had to pull out
The Friday party had an awesome atmosphere, with Phil and the band doing great work👍