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18 minutes ago, Fish said:
Are you sure? Houses are moved all over the place all the time. It needs to be done at night, and with a specialist company, but it is fairly straight forward. Basically a truck with a hydraulic deck and a pilot vehicle. A phone call or two to the appropriate company would tell you if it is viable or not. If boat movers say no, I'd try house movers under google.
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.
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5 hours ago, ex Elly said:
I think the trimaran would be too wide for Milford. Probably wouldn't squeeze through the pedestrian bridge.
had not thought about that, really is threading the needle
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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.
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47 minutes ago, aardvarkash10 said:
I need a 1m long leader to go between the halyard and the head of the spinnaker to accommodate the new you-beaut sock / douser. I'm ok with any solution that is easy, cheap and good (yeah, yeah choose any two...).
Halyard is some skinny dyneema-looking cord with a pelican on it.
Have at me with your suggestions.
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
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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"
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1 hour ago, Black Panther said:
Failure rate as in ceased to function? Need more data I've used one and consider it it more than sufficient.
All i really want is the ability to send a text once a day to my wife.
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
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18 minutes ago, cornr said:
Radio nets was 1 thing I wondered about. I have no experience, but have heard that there are not really that many anymore that are regularly used. E mail and gribs I think are cheaper with ssb (I have a pactor) but I think I would end up carrying some sort of sat device even if I kept the SSB, so am still going to need some sort of sat subscription. I do like the idea of being able to chat with people rather than text/email, but would VHF will do for the local stuff anyway?
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 "opened up" to HAM frequencies.
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2 hours ago, darkside said:
Alloycats are building a 12m for me in Tauranga. Leave them alone until it's launched please.
Roger Hill design?
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2 hours ago, Scotty3934 said:
Does anyone know of a comprehensive list of Ali Boat Builders in NZ?
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?
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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
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remember these guys
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4 hours ago, harrytom said:
maybe RNZYS could carry out what Bondi Threatened and turn it in to a plate.
actually that was from Ben Lexcen
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1 hour ago, Fujo said:
One of these would be pretty much ideal for my future boating around the inner gulf now I've sold our yacht. Do you have any more details on the boat and designer.
another option you might think about is a cat such as this by Dan Leech
http://leechboats.com/power/l825-semi-displacement-power-cat
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update on Fiji issued yesterday
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42 minutes ago, Fogg said:
Alinghi invented the hosting fee concept when they decided not to defend the AC on Lake Geneva but take it to another city / country (Valencia) who paid them a hosting fee.
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
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10 hours ago, waikiore said:
There are a large no at both Bayswater and Westypark still living aboard
I know of a few at Westpark who have been living aboard for more than 20yrs .
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1 hour ago, Yourmomm said:
Thinking of temporarily mooring in a marina eg westhaven, for 1-3 months, but would need to stay on board 1-2 nights a week...
They (and others) seem pretty anti-staying on board (EVER!), from my conversations with them...does anyone know how rigorously do they (and others) enforce this rule, for such occasional stayers?
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.
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54 minutes ago, alibaba said:
The Grey is simply frightening when the river is running due to rain, with incoming vessels having to fight into about an 8 knot flow. Takes a long time to cross. I now realise why nearly all the fishing boats in the harbour were big ones! Mind you- I saw a skipper coming in quit nonchalantly, one hand on the wheel the other elbow on the window ledge looking quite relaxed. They breed 'em tough down there
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
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On 12/06/2021 at 5:50 PM, aardvarkash10 said:
Navigation Marks, GPS and the Wisdom of Wives
The Wairoa River is a narrow muddy creek filled with cow piss and estuary water. It meanders its way from the bottom of the Hunua Hills, past Clevedon and onward to the sea picking up mud, cowshit, and a not entirely savoury smell as it goes.
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...
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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.
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21 minutes ago, muzled said:
Looks like they should be in in a matter of hours, pretty smooth passage?
Guess they'll be straight to quarantine and the next episode will tell how the passage went.
Are you the agent helping them out MH?
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
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On 11/06/2021 at 8:05 AM, wheels said:
Not sure it is fair to blame on build/design issues. For instance, the first Cat that lad bought was one of three out of several thousand, that still had the rigs standing. That was one of the reasons they chose the boat. The Hull was swiss cheese and that should have been the glaring obvious for Not choosing that boat. It had been hammered hard up against other Hulls or jetty or something.
These Boats have absolutely enourmous loads on the stays. This is not exact, but I am not far from the correct numbers when I say a 45ft'r has some 80 tonnes of loading on the main stays, which are trying to pull the two Hulls up into two. You cannot just glue the cracks back together. The Resin is not the strength. It is the glass in the resin that gives it the strength. Therefore, the crack needs to be cut out, glued really well and majorly built up with glass. Infact I think if it were me, I would be using Carbon.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 in the gaps, all vacuum bagged together.
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1 hour ago, 44forty said:
Austin Princess is my favourite ugly car of all time , the poor buggers getting dropped at school in those cars couldn’t hide for all the massive windows
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
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30 minutes ago, aardvarkash10 said:
were you never subjected to an HC Viva? What a shitbox they were...
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?
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Anyone here have a Boat Repainted in Fiji, how did that go for you?
in TechTalk
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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)