Steve Pope
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Just for interests sake is that a yard in Ngunguru or a home build?
It is a home build, Gary designed it for the builder.
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Gary Underwood has designed another, in a similar vein, an example is being built at Ngunguru. Not sure about trailerable though, but probably could be.
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Freeze salt water in suitably shaped plastic containers, squeeze a little water out when filling to allow for ice expansion. We have an Engel 40l and turn it down to lowest freeze temp and refreeze the bottles we use in the auxilliary chilly bin, if / when they start to thaw, only takes an hour or two.
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If you want bulk raw sheep grease (lanolin) any wool scourer will have it, probably find a 20l minimum.
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Chain oil is generally very sticky, Spectro's Chain wax is something else, not sticky, I lube bowden cables with it and have used it on sail slides with success.
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Lubricate with chain oiil on all moving parts, most often on the main slides, hanks and center boards. It doesnt evaporate like CRC and doesnt dry out like grease.
Do you mean chain wax, as in motorcycle chains, or just chain oil as in chainsaw chain oil???
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Kaipara is worth a visit if you have the time and the swell is around 1m + - incoming tide is the go, The channel (maybe a K wide) and is around 4 miles + - to the North paralell to the beach between the outer sand bar and the beach just watch for "sweepers" on the way in, they come in 3's and are reasonably steep, turn into them and then go back on course after the 3rd one. Once you are past the initial sandy lumps at the start, they are generally breaking so they are quite visible for you to thread your way through, it is like a large river, we were doing 11 knots with the tide and wind. NZ charts have recently been updated. Whangape is interesting as well, a lot simpler than the Kaipara, keep to Stb once across the bar on the way in until you are in the "fiord" No 1 eyeball is important!! Call up Kaipara coastguard if you do come in, but remember to contact them once you are in, otherwise they are likely to get cross!
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A pic would help.
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I have used soft seal for several years, short term pretty good, medium term doesn't last that long. But if you can re-apply it every 3 months or so it works. Cheap option.
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I removed the batteries from mine and replaced with a longish 12v lead and a cigarette lighter plug, still good after 8 years.
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I see a Logan (Duder owned ? ) lost its bumkin and the top of its mast
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Galvanised bolts and nuts are all you need and better than SS for attaching annodes. SS below the waterline is not a good idea. Sheep grease (raw lanoline) is ok for thread protection (doesn't allow the threads to seize)
As Wheels says a thin membrane between the mast and the steps is the go. If using monel rivets you don't need to use protection on them as monel to all intents and purposes is inert, but if you do it may give you a little more piece of mind, belt and braces, so to speak.
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When Auckland City Council (panuku in disguise perhaps) pushed through the change from "City of Sails" to what could be taken for be a stylised Pohutukawa flower. I, like a lot of people, asked myself why. I now realise that there was a hidden message to all boaties using the Waitemata that their fate had been or was being decided. The message was there I just never recognised it.
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The yacht is Willpower, now the ICNZ tracking site is up again, she is showing 7 knots in 27 knots of wind
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It appears that the ICNZ tracking site is currently down, but when I last looked there was a ( multihull? ) showing 18.1 knots in a 27 knot breeze, He will be home in no time at all!!
Looking ahead, the wind tracks quickly to the east leaving the rest of the ex New Caledonia fleet in much lighter airs.
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I too have been caught in similar wind strengths returning from the Islands, like them I was so close, the wind picking up all the time, (it peaked 12 hours ahead of the time it was forecast to arrive, and that we were trying to beat ) but the urge to get into the bay, hoping to catch the Customs before knock off meant we pushed on expecting to get relief as we closed with the shore. We were laid over for several minutes by a gust much stronger than we had anticipated, just had to let the sheets fly and even then the wind held her over, being a centreboarder we didn't have a lead mine 2 metres down to hold us up, a saving grace maybe? luckily, although there was white water we didn't take any across the cockpit, another reef (done in time) would have helped! Once around the nine pin we were headed and had to tack all the way in. Customs had given up on us, so it was have a rum time, a walk up and down our "enclosure" and a welcome nights sleep.
"Wisdom after the event" means I would probably act earlier (another reef etc.) but at the time we thought we had it sorted.
Plus we had no large windows, only glued and screwed 10mm acrylic, so no water down below.
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Maybe of interest as to how NRC is spending up.
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Thanks BP, I was going to post it too, NRC always uses "vessels" dirty bottoms when referring to Med fan worm as the method of its spread, no mention of tides, coastal currents etc. etc. It would be interesting to see how much has been spent on "containing / eradicating the fan worm. It has to be in the millions!
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I usually use meths to dilute epoxy to get a better penetration / sealing on the first coat.
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Went mountain climbing
Enjoyed the pics, bugger about the shop though.
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Google Suva Museum, there is a picture online of the Fulagi Proa.
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Is there a butterfly valve in the inlet manifold? They are generally held in place with a smallish machine screw holding them to the pivot shaft. If there is and the screw has done what it has done and is missing the next thing to travel towards the valve could be the butterfly plate.
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Switch the caps around, if possible. Might be a faulty cap....
Will do, hadn't thought of a faulty cap
Antifoul alternative - boat bags?
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probably quite tasty to a leopard seal!?