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Your questions response largely depends on the Marina being referred to, if its Westhaven KM is on track and Bayswater westpark and Pine Harbour, if its OBC or Half moon bay then the berth has value and wont drop. Westpark the going rate for 12M seems to be settling at $2000.00 which is up from the $10.00 I was trading them for ten years ago despite the silting up of the place. Dont know much about Gulf Harbour but demand doesnt seem that high.

going out today

Great to see such close line times for the wide variety of craft entered, looking back in time if I rocked up with an H28 or say Sheila 11 would my entry still be accepted these days?

Yes will be out there watching, though I dont expect exciting video from the first leg like truxton provided a race or two back.

Well done to whoever organised the forestay banners all the boats are wearing around the marinas of Auckland, its a great sight

None of those are ocean wallopers Bevan , changed your focus?

Oh come MB I thought you were going to tell us that was all good value, yes with the power and water now charged separately I have a recent release from them explaining that the "big boys" would now be paying their share which would minimise the need for the smaller berths to subsidise them and thus restrict the increase to cost....

Yes I did the research, and ended up going all Hella for the nav and mainly Hella for the interior, finished a day before Christmas -what a difference in consumption -very pleased with the result, if you saw the testing done by Hella here you would find it easier to swallow the price, gulp

Good to hear that you boys have given away the demon drink....

In the harbour last week, but likely to be further out this week

Actually the Olympic sailors (for that is all this was for are neither young nor numerous) and for those of us actively involved in promoting youth dinghy and keelboat sailing on the shore this whole sham has been a terrible waste of time fighting for common sense to come to the top again.

Just wait till they deploy the foils

Now I know why the ETNZ guys are so much faster than my rum soaked sausage roll fuelled carcass on the morning Tamaki Drive ride

Scrap lead not such a good idea, the balance of tin, antimony etc has to be right under water.

Well MB as a payer of three lots of Yachting NZ levys I do object to a high performance centre being allocated most of the money for just the Olympic sailors (a very small number of highly sponsored people) - though when you look at the latest funding round you can see why YNZ put such emphasis on them. Dont get me wrong I have nothing against dinghy sailing, and some of the people at YNZ are great supporting the grass roots of yachting Kim Admore springs to mind, however they do appear to have forgotten the silent majority of us who pay each year - for what exactly? Clubs are administering th

Ed you miss my point, yes we didnt have a long distance race, but these boats were all out there in the NZ fleet some racing some not and given time we could have rounded up a heap more, even the walkers coming down to the viaduct in the afternoon were heard to exclaim that isnt the real Rainbow 11 or the real Waianiwa is it ? As they looked past the assembled Volvo fleet in port, so people do remember when yachting caught the imagination of the public back then. Also you missed the great Rosco on the lidgard IMP. And that scow being mother ship to sundance was helmed by a well known sailmaker

Indeed this has been David Abercrombies baby all along and turning his back on Orakei and wasting money on PR spin needs to be sheeted home to him.

Undoubtedly BP, some of the best quality racing that I have done in recent years was in the One Ton Cup revisited two years ago, widely disparate boats well handicapped and every dog had his day, oh and they were by todays standards small cheap local non planing boats. Really made us all think - and the fleet was populated heavily by sailmakers or ex sailmakers there because they wanted to be, rather than for business.....

ETNZ challenger for this years Americas cup is in the drink -just waiting for some breeze...... Ben Ainslie sailed his one yesterday in Bermuda

yes watching last years island race start I was struck by how few normal Dad and Mum Kiwi boats were going, there is no place for them amongst the big boat race fleet anymore, never mind how time poor we all are, even the racey small boats were populated by sailmakers and boatbuilders who kinda had to be there.

Without dancing all around the issue again, as all angles seem to have been discussed, if you can reach rated RPM ie 3600 with a clean bottom then the box will not be overloaded . And more important you will not be running in lug mode, thus allowing full horsepower to be available if ever required and avoiding damage to the engine (premature carbonning of exhaust elbow etc etc.) And the prop will run quieter with more tip clearance 15% was always rule of thumb and what classification agencies use as absolute minimum, however on a lot of yachts we sneak it down to nearer 10% depending on hull

Yes agree about good value, have done canals in the UK from Chester and in and out of Wales great fun. Two years ago did a week on the Norfolk Broads once again great value with travel and accomodation looked after. Pays to research who you are chartering off though, both times we felt very lucky when looking at some of the other boats.Now investigating the French canals for this year...

yes I would be looking for 6 knots ish at 3000 and being able to get near 3600 as she sinks into her own hole going a little quicker (gives you reserve for weather conditions)

Put MAXwax on available in a spraycan at most good chandlers - I got a year out of it, not quite propspeed but for your situation ideal. And yes you should reach maximum 3600 with all things being right - clean bottom etc etc. We require that to sign off new engines as the boats always get heavier bottom fouling etc and you dont want to put a modern small diesel into lug. Depending on the engine an older one can have a little leeway.

Take my hat off to him even if he did a Moitessier now