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Agreed I believe the Squadron made the right call after speaking to a large cross section of owners

Hit the nail on the head it was your neighbours, with current boats using propspeed on the prop and maybe shaft you should see very little activity on your anode, most NZ wooden boats are over compensating with anodes causing their own issues.

Glad Im not an ETNZ boatbuilder grinding carbon etc all day and night and bonding bits in imperfect conditions

Wheels is dead right, this comes up every few years -simply put doesnt work no matter how much you may want to believe them.

The Herald having trouble telling Port from Starboard today unless the photo is reversed........

Indeed -even a wildly modified Ross 30 would be safer

Strange behaviour by the squadron patrol boat shortening the course on saturday at orakei -if that was indeed what they were doing, First Tiri sat by the breakwater then took up a position between North Head and the Orakei mark then shifted back to the Kelly Tarltons side of the mark as if to finish boats there which would make sense, didnt hear sound signals but saw the flag - I think they confused a few Stewarts a Ross 830 and MRX at least....

Built Glendowie by John ........ cant remember yet, but owned for 20plus years by the late great Trevor Coubray a wonderful and hilarious guy -Mooringologist then commander of Okahu Bay hardstand and friend of yachtsmen everywhere. He took the flathead ford ten out and replaced it with the second hand Bukh 20 driving backwards through belts !! Did she come with the Merv Seefont clinker dinghy that Trev sold her with and was still on board ten years ago at Westpark?

Looked like a Tourism Auckland promotion

Good shot for those waiting in Opua to see what develops this week....

Re the big guys going this way: some years ago at Sanctuary Cove I had a look at the first First 30 of the current shape in Aussie came back here all excited costings were cheap looked great then did some figures, similar sizing to an 88 all good a lot cheaper than an 88 all good, 60% heavier than an 88 all bad, in a hull that was designed to be light and frisky big production polyester boatbuilding just couldnt do it . If built by Cooksons that yacht could sparkle, but done by Bene -well the videos prove it downwind in a gale just mushing along where an 88 or Ross 30 in particular would be se

BP it is a Victron monocrystalline from Lusty and Blundell

Put a victron monitor and bigger batteries in before xmas, now very relaxed about house loads and amazed how much a small good quality solar panel generates

Yes have seen several dreadful attempts lately, but the Boat Coat guy seems to do it properly, and have more experience.

And its fun and easy to work with

Ply is the one material that with WEST epoxy can be fixed and repaired as good as new, certainly in the case of Pivers and a lot of early Spencers better than new if they were bonded with Aerolite.

Wow very envious

I like the idea of escaping the Marina monopoly

Dont forget the RM970 - as the hull is built out of goodstuff she could be built in Kiwiland - I cant believe no one has tried under licence to produce them, yes yes I know the hull and decks are currently under 20% of a yacht cost, however deals could be done. Just imagine new yachts built in NZ how radical

Now that is really cool, almost enough to tempt me out of the kauri log, not sure how she would go on the wind though..

Careful round Kelly Tarltons now, the only moorings with decent draft are out by the wavescreen

Doubt it, he has been building in Devonport all that time since doing his time at Gladdens in Milford.

She is well built and if rigged as designed with a modern lug will sail exceedingly well, of course has a modern Yanmar for docking purposes a true trade wind machine . I just hope that because local riggers dont understand what a lugger can do they dont try and change the design. I have personally designed and built a carbon lugger and was astounded at the controllability and performance possibilities with this rig, often people see you and think that is a quaint gaffer- till you sail by planing....

Thats the old Waitemata, this one Wakatere? has jets and foils , one big one between the hulls and smaller trim ones aft, one wonders if they knew they had hit something why they didnt stop, for there seemed to be no question it was her from early on.

What has the new pilot boat hit ? Quick haul out and a lot of Police taking photos...