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Yes unfortunately all true, the ship could have been built right here in Auckland and delivered on time, rather than eight months late -and the state of her!!! Professional Skipper is the only magazine with the guts to follow this amazing story of Wellington bungling. In Australia the money would have to be spent internally keeping Aussies earning paying tax and spending, but not us we send north of 12 million to a Bangladesh yard. The number of consultants NZ paid for on this have questions to be answered, apart from a couple of Herald articles our press have shied away from this amazing

Who is the Kiwi who has entered this Blue water classic? , two years to the start.I know its not KM or BP as their keels are too modern.

That is a classic, 50 years this year celebrations at Jeremy Rogers in the UK

Sure is good to see Blink sail to her promise well done you guys

Ha unlikely to get an answer

Yes and she appears to be just inside one of the better known tourist ones....

Yes for obvious reasons the west coast wont happen, and Manukau now closed to shipping of any size, so we are left with the Firth- but who will pay?

Was hers, but she quickly sold it after trying to shift Brown Island, the new owner patched her up and was cruising in a week, she is working on a whiting I believe

Look for significant speed increase on this test boat, particularly to weather. They have been working hard.

Which NZ team has entered the One Ton Cup revisited this year to be sailed in Europe? The organisers say there is a team from NZ?

New ETNZ boat getting launched today....

Yes knowing all on board I really feel for them, and IT it woudnt hurt to tighten up on some of the posters of the rambling kind here.

If you buy her please get rid of the teak, otherwise you will regret it. If you must, use one of the fake teak options they will protect her and last a lot longer.

Knowing those on board and their experience, a terrible tragedy which just serves to remind us to keep alert always, Harry Tory and Ross on way back apparently.

yes I am in the market for a pair of 28's

Southern Man take note of what E749 tells you

Good to see Artemis getting the win after the trials they have had, its anyones series

Me too

Was 5% in my day but I believe is 6% now.

Perhaps Jody on Itchy Feet has led a dodgy wire past his compass.... doesn't make sense that hard left

Anarchy Hupane Crusader and Blink - that's where the interesting racing will happen

Agree KM those two pairings will be worth watching, V70 talking big at the moment, Monday night -Tuesday morning all things being perfect. (Is it ever ?).

Er yeah another from Mairangi Bay here -same question as KM as we are about to upgrade the sounds on board as well.

Cruising division down to one boat with Moody Blue heading to Opua for repairs, and Platino still here.

The Swedish hanks shown are what was marketed as NZ style hanks in Europe- referring of course to the Murray hanks made here for years, the European ones are not made of the same metal as the old Murray ones though -which could if carefully prised open be used again and again. I too have experienced the wichard hanks coming away from the forestay in very unpleasant conditions (flogging) and seen them hook other halyards --very tricky.