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You have too not need fumigation, not be bio-fouled and have provisions for the remainder of the 12 day period. Provisions includes being fully self contained, including power/gas, fresh water and appropriate black water treatment/storage space. Otherwise it's off to quarantine...

Thanks. Appreciate the details. Would love a photo of your headboard? I assume it's a custom build... Your setup sounds the same as ours, except for the the built in block, which would only make the issue I am concerned about worse. I feel I am creating an issue where one does not exist, so I will convert to a 2:1 and see how it goes... Thanks all.

Div C was shortened to Torpedo, all other divisions were finished at Westhaven.

Due to the lack of wind and the tide, a number of boats were OCS. (Including us). A few boats, (we saw three), used their motor to return to the correct side of the start line to start. As a friendly FYI, this is not allowed. Your propellor is not allowed to be engaged from the time of the preparatory signal, (4 mins), and certainly not after the start signal. No naming/shaming... I realise it's a long shot that the skippers will even see this, but figured I would try. I will also try and track down the three boats and mention it privately. Fwiw, the three boats we did s

Yes, but now there are two ropes stopping the headboard from twisting. The same as why you use a 2:1 on the downhaul for Code Zero furler - to stop the Furler from twisting. If you have one rope going to the bottom of the furler the rope can twist on itself and so the furler spins on the centre line of the rope (a mistake I will not make again), so adding a 2:1 the two ropes prevent the furler from spinning. Thanks. That's the Doyle Anomaly Headboard. I can't see how it doesn't suffer from the problem I am trying to resolve. Thanks for that - it's a neat idea and solves ano

I want to change the main halyard to a 2:1. There is a lot of weight in the main and the load of the full battens makes it time consuming to shake out a reef, it cannot be done without winching. I can see that when we put in a 2:1 into the mast head crane that the 2:1 is going to stop the top of the sail from being able to twist sideways. With a square top I see this putting a lot of sideways load on the headboard. I see a lot of boats with square tops running 2:1 halyards but I can't see how they eliminate this problem of stopping the headboard from turning outboard.

Most of the links on the official website for the tracking map are broken. But you can find it here.

Every drop in LiFePO4 battery I have looked at, specifies if it can or cannot be parallelled and even the maximum number of units that can be paralleled together. I haven't researched the reason for this limitation. I have found that the cheaper drop-in units don't support paralleling. I would not parallel anything that says it cannot be and would definitely not parallel anything that doesn't specify the capability.

Why do you make that assertion? (Not that it is wrong, but I don't see the relevance). They aren't advertised as being Lithium Polymer, nothing says they are LiPo. They are advertised as LiFePO4...?!

So it has four settings. The manual is pretty light on what these do? Polar, Actual, Manual, Table. I am guess that Polar needs a h5000? What does Actual and Manual do? I seem to get no lines on Actual. Is there a way to add more intermediate rows to the table? Thanks

It's the Zeus2 - no H5000 - the AC12 is set for all the VMC/TWA calculations.

Our B&G What-If panel for a route used to be spot on. At some point during an upgrade, (or maybe I ti-tooed too much), it's gone way off, saying that we'll be sailing at 20deg AWA with 25deg TWA. The downwind legs are also out, reporting 130TWA when we should be doing 165TWA. We've resorted to doing the math manually, but it would be nice to get this feature working properly again. Anyone know where it's getting the data from to make these calculations and how I set it? I can't think of anything that I changed. I don't use the start-line feature, but I feel it is somehow

I don't think that's the reason. I would say SSANZ numbers are going through the roof cause it's easy to find a co-skipper that wants the two-handed challenge. How come we get 180 boats for SSANZ but less than 30 boats for the RAYC Gold Cup Series or the Commodore Cup Series, which are the same length races? This isn't to do with having a race that a boat can finish - there is something else at play here. Not being an expert, I think the problem is more demand on peoples time and more choice of things to do. That choice could even be a different, (usually faster), boat. It's

You should definitely get rid of the wire. You could downgrade the diameter considerably, saving cost on the line, but then you need to think about clutches and winches and handling which will increase cost. I made up a 5mm exposed core to a 10mm with sheath as a trial experiment for replacing my main halyard. It would be 5mm at the mast and 10mm at the clutch. Several end to end splices 5 to 6 to 8 with cover got me to 10mm at the clutch adding an 1mm insert should get 12mm at the clutch reef points.

I got a piece of "Viscous Tube" from RigPro and repaired it. The last race we did required a reef for the duration and we didn't shake it for the reach home so I don't know if it works yet and don't really understand why the last one blew out, so the repair might also just pop out. Might find out on Wednesday night... Keen to obtain a spare if it surplus to your requirements?

Anyone recognise this type/make of track/car? Had one of the bearing inserts pop out and disappear last night. This is our boom outhaul track. Can't replace it with webbing because the end if the boom tapers up to a point. Thanks

The WN "Mobile Caravan" plan is not RBI. I did not intend to imply that the WN Caravan product was RBI, I was just going off on a tangent explaining RBI vs normal Mobile. These days RBI is generally marketed as "Fixed Wireless Broadband", which is kind of a contradiction in terms. Regarding better coverage from the modem, the devices all use common chipsets, they have the same antenna configuration and they have the same transmit/receive limitations which are all part of the LTE standard. A lot of phones do not support dual frequencies (often called 4G+) and other features such as carr

Playing devils advocate, allowing cruisers in, would create a backdoor into NZ for anyone with the means/money. I would expect the boat brokers in the pacific could do quite well out of it. And I am sure the cruisers would be able to charge a hansom price for a couple of extra crew positions. A lot of people are stranded through no fault of their own and are asking for our help. That includes NZ citizens who don't have the means to get home from across the world.

But there is no difference. Those people are entitled to enter NZ on either a boat or a plane. They could of sailed here, legally landed at Opua and still bought there 12 Covid cases with them and MiQ would of dealt with it. Not directed at you personally, but where should the Government draw the line? Should they allow cruise ships with 6000 foreign passengers to dock if they have been at sea for 14 days? Should they allow fully loaded A380-800's with 800 foreign passengers to land and disembark if the country they are coming from assures us that all the passengers were in iso

Wireless Nation mobile plans use the Spark Network via an MVNO agreement. Any number of devices on the market can have an external antennas attached which will increase the range. RBI connectivity uses 4G on the mobile network but can be carrier independent depending on where you are, it is typically set up with uni-directional antennas, such as a Yagi, resulting in maximum signal strength. Uni directional is no good for a boat unless it's auto tracking - which is mega bucks. RBI can and does work with omni directional antennas. You aren't contractually allowed to move your RBI base s

Section 13 of the border order states that if a ship is in distress and/or it is necessary to preserve human life, then the clauses which prevent non-New Zealand citizens or foreign vessels from entering do not apply. In those circumstances, vessels will be allowed to enter New Zealand. However, any deliberate attempt to contravene the order would be liable for prosecution and may result in a $15,000 NZD fine, imprisonment of up to 12 months, or forfeiture of the vessel. I can't see how this section could possibly apply to any vessel unless it's on the way to/from Antarctica. It's n

So this is not different to flying into Auckland, catching a domestic flight to Wellington, and departing for Australia. A visa is of course required for this. Even flight crew overnighting are issued special Visa's. "these guys", to just get to the Airport, (a) needed an exemption for their vessel; (b) needed a exemption for entry under the critical workers rules; (c) needed to be granted a Visa (d) needed to comply with isolation requirements These are the same rules that apply to a commercial vessel and its crew.

Could Kiwi sailors Northwest Passage transit break legal ice between Canada and US

While they won't pay up front, they'll end up with the liability. NZ Govt may or may not have the ability recover this via various international treaties. One thing for certain, until that debt is settled, they won't even be considered for an NZ visa. And even after it is paid there's still no guarantee. Their boat, if seized, will ultimately be sold, this would offset their deportation costs, any residual will be forfeit. So not exactly 'free', but none the less it's an effective way to liquidate an asset if your intention was to spend every cent of it on airfares anyway.

https://www.12voltplanet.co.uk/adjustable-delay-timer-relay-delay-on-or-off-12v-10a.html I would put that across in the existing circuit and install a 3 position toggle switch circuit to start it, I would add a bypass as the third position so I could run for longer than the timer if I wanted. And I would add a light so I knew the compressor was running....