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Fuckers even nicked the rum!
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Have you enquired with the westhaven office? I thought they were pretty much full.
Beggars can't be choosers and all that, but westhaven is pretty well sheltered, theres not much between the berths so long as you fit
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Anyone got one lurking in the back of the garage?
Buying NOS from overseas will cost me abut the same as bottle of Mt Gay, so figure thats the going rate for a clean one👍
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So ETNZ have signed Nathan Outerridge, and Ashby is still on the team
Pete and Blair haven’t renewed yet, changing of the guard perhaps?
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On 21/09/2021 at 9:07 AM, DoT said:
Imagine being a electrician there...
By the looks of it everyone is an electrican there😂
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The latest marketing spiel I heard on a new GPS unit was that it use L1 and L5 GNSS signals, as opposed to virtually all the recreational divices out there just uing L1, which putthe accuracy in the +\- 20cm range, with a 25hz update.
Any one able to explain in laymans terms why this additional signal frequecy helps so much, something to do with ionosphere correction? Or is this snake oil?
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I’ve acquired a Vulcan 7 chart plotter, but it doesn’t come with anything over and above the base map.
what do people recommend for the gulf and up to bay of islands? Mostly racing rather than cruising
Are there other options bar cmap and navionics?
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yep neither side looks good in those videos
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its kicking off again at the marina... someone will likely be up for assult with that move
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Whats the going rate on a dst810?
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1 year mortgage rate now at 1.85%, time to talk to my sailmaker!
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1 hour ago, SloopJohnB said:
and all the class threads, yes some could have been trimmed but all of them.😒
All the old threads are all still there, just all moved into marine talk now.
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The round IOW race leak seems to have come from butterworth via the U.K. times. An LSD article, since pulled, suggested this race would be a “hype” race, and not actually part of the cup challenge.
AC37 to be in NZ back end of next year... allegedly
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Looking for a backup generator for a plant.
Standard unit, 1 year warrenty.
Oh you wanted a 5 year warrenty? certinaly, that'll be another $32K please Sir
Yep, pieces of paper get very expensive very quickly
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Half the Shaw 650 fleet
money shot
badonkadonk
wha ka
snatch
magic trick
barely legal
pronstar
situation normal
and an honourable mention to the Shaw 7
angry dragon
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Why didn’t you protest them at the time?
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There is a temporary haulout facility at Macefield Beach, but I think the fees are quite high....
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The 8.5s generally run a double ended mainsheet with between between 4:1 to 8:1 on the end of the boom. This is run forward to the mast base then back to a winch in each cockpit. Running the sheets forwards means you are not trying to run rope through the main sheet blocks as you ease the traveller, and it helps induce mast rotation.
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31 minutes ago, Island Time said:
The web page does not work in the Brave browser...
Brave browser... their business model is certainly brave!
<sarc>have you tried using chrome?</sarc>
I’ll pass on the feedback👍
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7 minutes ago, Island Time said:
Certainly a lot less discussion on here than usual.
And personally I tried to find the results on the website, and at first it would not load, then, for example, it had DNC in the solo division for boats that were there.
There were conflicting results at various locations on the website, for example overall and at division levels did not agree.
The web page does not work in the Brave browser, and the results are still wrong now, for example;
and ;
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.
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25 minutes ago, Tamure said:
Sailing stories are for the sailors, the wider public are just not that interested. It doesnt matter how many media channels you pump it out on, its still just another yacht race which unless you are really into it mostly incomprehensible, even for sailors like me its a bit of a "ok so what?" If its about pleasing advertisers with views... dont know anything about marketing so cant comment.
Live vid updates, now thats interesting
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?
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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 follow the race. This does rely on cell phone coverage, so can get a bit shaky around the Brett, but for the most part is does it’s job
The main piece stories were also published through the coastal classic app and the website, the line honours story went up just after 9am on Facebook, I’m not sure what time the website was updated.
we were also pushing out updates through Instagram and Twitter, with an event hashtag for social contributions.
I know some here are anti Facebook, an opinion I understand. I can take that feedback to the committee, but what other channels/platforms should we be using.
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Its gonna be a 3 bottles of rum race
Bay of Islands Mammal Sanctuary rules
in MarineTalk
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According to offical stats over 60% of submissions we re supportive.
I can just imagine it...
" We support improving the the marine habitat BUT... whoa - dont need to read any further that, tick in the support box"