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Looking good Team

Aussie Sail GP find the weed too

I wonder if the launch had Lithium ? Looks as if started in the engine area and this follows other incidents where the BMS failed in NZ and offshore.

They have specifically made it onerous for clubs/ members to opt out using their form -so most clubs wont entertain it . Of note lately are the numbers of members bleeding from the gold plater clubs to their local or even more economic town based options ...

I dont begrudge paying once but through every yacht club ????

The cat is away and roaming and no one really knows where the the bag was..

Great shot of those over at the start.... And well done to the Gulf Harbour girls on the little Townson keeping a lot of bigger boats back.

What happened to this race ? Saw them milling around before the start and perfect sailing conditions up to the Mairangi turning mark but they never came up the bays -not even to Takapuna or the H28 mark at Milford ? Was it North Head to the Viaduct?

There are really good people on the board of Yachting NZ , hopefully they will make it easier for some of us who annually pay many affiliation fees to avoid this , as David just fudged the matter.

No news on this race? Presume it was them I saw going down the harbour on Saturday morning ....

As noted above -not the first J boat to have lower bearing failure leading to unmanageable ingress of water, the old IOR shaped glass yacht essentially pumped her mast through the bottom , and the Aage Nielsen yacht -well our multi skin Kauri yachts are a lot stronger from the same vintage -thinking of the Brin Wilson built S & S boats for example.

Unfortunately the formulation has changed since my last application (3 years) its thinner not nearly as porridge as it used to be and goes on almost glossy -never before seen that, I too was v happy with the green that slowly went bluish in the past. Yes low salinity and various street run off polution does help (5 years in Milford creek between applications) Many years ago I witnessed people mixing up there own brews- the issue that struck me at the time was, and still is, many of their 'ingredients' were rather more toxic to humans than barnacles and they were splashing it about with gay ab

Certainly as noticed this weekend Altex No 5 has been watered down lately , having been a very happy customer for 25 plus years I seem to have slime after two months not had that before.....

Ac38 seems to be in trouble, challenger of record melting into acrimonious court cases , no venue, no rules yet , unless you are a billionaire trying to offload large amounts -who will be a sponsor of such an event ? or potential team ? Yes I know the hoards from Auckland that went enjoyed the event but that could have been anywhere , and it really has no connection to the yacht racing that most of us regularly engage in.

Superb real upcycling, I turned some of my Navy Whaler oars into Nutshell spars (bought at the auction on Torpedo Bay wharf many moons ago)

Harken

Wow, I will raise a glass to Conrad Coleman tonight to get within 1 mile of j le C at the finish after all that well done.

I would be extremely happy to be within 4 miles of Jean le Cam after all that way.

Ha , but seriously you do realise the smaller the yacht the bigger the launching party.......... (having had some experience in that department with our nutshells)

Either the regatta website or the squadron will have some soon i believe

Snap for this year

I just empty a full kettle of fresh through the system when i come home pump it through then close the valves, of course this wont stop the anaerobic smell from the intake side from the first two pumps next time away.

Having said that the Aussies put wheels on the Cav 32's when they took on the moulds 🙄

Cant imagine why someone would put a wheel on a D31 , yes tiller is the go

The viewing and race lengths were better in Chch, however if the breeze had stayed more like friday the viewing would have been amazing. (From Westhaven )