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That is Fusion Marine at Manga Rd Silverdale. Use the crane to tow a trailer I do not know who owns it, but there is also the big shed on the north side of the Weiti River where Jon Douglas built the 2 big Roger Hill cats (Kotuku and Cation)

NZTA allows a max width of 11 m, so 8m is no problem. The tri would sit on a standard low loader with a cradle. Need all the relevant permits, pilot vehicles, permissible routes etc but nothing that has not been done 000's times before. I am sure Pete at Boat Haulage would have all the answers, and similarly any of the house movers. I know of a 14m x 7m cat moved from the back of Hunua to Maraetai by a house mover without a problem.

had not thought about that, really is threading the needle

other options Hutchesons in Tauranga https://hutchesonboats.co.nz/ or maybe the Milford Slipway http://www.findglocal.com/NZ/Auckland/425610114869669/The-Slipway-Milford, have seen some tremendous results for rolled on paint given that you are almost painting 3 boats the $47k quote is not unreasonable.

Make a Dyneema strop, loop in each end, the one for the head of the spinnaker should be long enough to cow hitch it thru the head eye. By the way, I think you are better off having a halyard with a little "spring" in it to absorb shock loading - not like a main or genoa where you need a tight luff

you would not buy one now, but my yacht came with one of these still works and even with Predictwind I find it handy to down load some of the available maps to get "the big picture"

failure rates as in software going crazy, refusing to turn on and the stupid little charging pin coming away from the motherboard. As I said they are good but not perfect If you just want to send a message home then one of the satellite messengers eg In Reach would be more than sufficient

This question was raised quite recently so suggest you search for the previous discussion Seeing as you have both the SSB and Pactor, I would suggest spending the $'s for the insulators. Iridium Go is great, but not the be all and end all. In the 2019 ICNZ Rally I think the failure rate of Go's was around 20%. I am not sure about the comments re Sat comms becoming cheaper, purchase price and monthly sub have not changed over the last few years. You can get much more effective use of SSB by getting a HAM licence, and I would expect if your SSB (an ICOM?) runs a PACTOR it can be "open

Roger Hill design?

big boat(power or sail?) or Fizz boat. 100's of the latter (up to ~10m), not so many of the former. Any preferred region?

you can also take fuel and turn it into heat, a few here might remember the turbine cars from the 50's and 60's unfortunately their fuel consumption makes a fire breathing HSV Commodore look economical. The P6 Rover had a weird front suspension to accommodate a turbine

remember these guys

actually that was from Ben Lexcen

another option you might think about is a cat such as this by Dan Leech http://leechboats.com/power/l825-semi-displacement-power-cat

update on Fiji issued yesterday https://www.denaraumarina.com/arriving-departing-fiji/

and I seem to recall part of the deal was a "tax free " zone in the area where the teams were located, with enough space conveniently available for Berty to build on of his pharmacy plants

I know of a few at Westpark who have been living aboard for more than 20yrs .

Westhaven rules You shall not live on board the Vessel or elsewhere in Westhaven without our permission. Sleeping overnight on the Vessel for more than two consecutive nights constitutes living on board. So if you stick to your 1-2 nights a week no prob. Just keep a low profile and you should be ok. More than that on a regular basis best to talk to the office.

There is a video around of a 70' trawler entering Greymouth, sneaker wave got it on the port quarter and she was upside down in a flash. These pics are Dave Jackson's Karros II having some excitement trying to enter Greymouth, there is an even "better" picture in the SYC clubhouse

and is the habitat of copious swarms of swallows just waiting for a new addition to the club to provide yet another place to roost and sh*t...

I think he might have had his numbers wrong. I made a quick calc using the approach found here https://smalltridesign.com/masts/Rigging-Mast-Loads.html and came up with a shroud load circa 10,000kg Viewing the series of videos by Parlay and another guy fixing the same problem is reinforcing that these boats are just slapped together. Apart from lots of silicon, the European boat builders seem to love that brown bog you see. Anyone thinking of taking a Bendy Boat offshore should watch these videos first.

Yes, they have had a smooth passage, alot better than everyone had going north in 2019! Not an agent, just an interested observer (living vicariously?), on the one hand wishing I was doing the trip but on the other hand agree with some here, even BP (OMG!) that this year is not a good time to go . Fusio and Caro Vita got in Tuesday night/Wed morning at Denerau and Savusavu respectively, with the rest of the group that left Tues 1 June, close behind on Wednesday. You can see Sula II's comment here re quarantine https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/SulaII?fbclid=IwAR3

I think the 80t load is perhaps a little high, as a bench mark 16mm 316 1/19 rigging wire, which is what these would use has a breaking load of ~25t. For sure there are big loads to handle. The bulkhead is just one part of the structure, it is (well should be with proper bonding) acting as a web with the wing deck and top decks acting as the flanges. In the old days (before Mrs BK and friends got loose with high density foams, carbon etc) the typical main bulkhead detail from say Ron Given was a built up bulkhead with 12mm plywood each side of about a 40 x 40 frames with pvc foam filling

the scary thing is my father wanted to buy a Princess for my mother. We convinced him to instead buy a Chrysler Alpine, a car that was brilliant in concept, won lots of awards but underpowered by a gutless ex Simca motor and terribly assembled by Todd's. Put me off French cars for life

missed that one. There is an article in the latest issue of The Shed mag on John Haynes of Haynes Car Manuals fame, it sounds like the aforementioned Viva was what really got his business going😅 How many people realise this had its origins back to the Viva?