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  1. Terrible, next time you're bleating about safety regs and/or RO cancellations, have a read of this. http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2015/04/27/tragedy-on-mobile-bay/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
  2. Vodafone just pulled out. Zana and Sundreamer's records remain for another year
  3. Couple of heavily cropped pics of start coastal 2000 with a couple of GBE's and Slime and Coastal 2002 with Slime Question, who are the GBE's?
  4. I think there's talk of a fully crewed round North Island race in 2016 too
  5. Clutching at straws I think unless there is a reason to link the two stories that the police are keeping quiet. There has been no sight of the pair for 8 months. Nobody knows where they are or even if they are in the country. I'd think the boat has either headed straight out or straight down. Very unlikely to be sitting up the coast somewhere, very distinctive and too many eyes
  6. I'm in if I can figure out a way to route the vent pipe out of the boat. I'll assemble some experts this weekend at Kawau to consider.
  7. Great report Josh and I fully agree on Peachgrove Bay, my favourite place.
  8. There are grids at Westhaven but I'm unsure of the rules......
  9. Yes enquiring minds need to know. I heard you're buying a Y88
  10. I'm more worried about the bad image it gives boaties. We are already seen as being rich pricks. Having said that YNZ has no place on the site. Then there is this blasting all over the radio this morning. Ummmmmm how can the Westhaven Users Group charge for something they don't own? The impression on the radio is that the rich prick boaties are standing in the way of families wanting to cross the bridge on their bikes. Whatever the truth, there goes any sympathy we may have had. http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/north-shore-times/8777157/Fee-threatens-path-feasibility
  11. http://www.tradeaboat.co.nz/detail/marine/boats/shoalcraft/10m/73033
  12. Yeah they are a great boat. I've known a few people with them over the years. Met a guy recently that had one. While I can't recall who (old age), they all loved them so I'd imagine they are very hard to source.
  13. He regretted that the council had not talked to him earlier if the plan had room for self-contained motor homes. They were most of the park's business and he was happy to keep operating that part, though the five motel units were popular Funny tho, I thought most of the sympathy lay with traditional kiwi family campers in tents, not cashed up retiree's in $200k mobile homes
  14. It's like the car park argument, give $1000000 to beneficiaries and its a crime on humanity, subsidise executives audi parking spot to the tune of $17m and thats trifling and not worth collecting It's a stupid place for ynz , impossible to get to, i like the takapuna beach cafe but if you want to go for lunch you have to arrive at breakfast time to get a park. And the backlash against yachties as being elitist rich pricks will last for decades Mind you I think the camp should go too. It should be a park
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    timberwolf

    How do you flip a boat in a rum race?
  16. You mean this $7.9 million dollar monumental f*ck up? There was, and then there wasn't. The bridge across the motorway was to have opened last September but hairline cracks have appeared on 10 of 206 acrylic panels fixed to the $7.9 million structure. The Herald reported in May that the Transport Agency was considering whether to attach temporary screens to the structure, so it could be used before a permanent solution was found. The agency says tests have satisfied it that the 10 lanes of traffic passing underneath are in no danger from faulty panels. But it can't say
  17. Perhaps Foreman and her friends can get a job at the marine centre and stop clogging up our ponsonby/herne bay roads every night commuting over the bridge. I'd happily stay out of their town if they stayed out of ours.
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    timberwolf

    Partly because your angle of heel flying 2 hulls meant considerable downforce from your rig. Relieved if you cant.
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    timberwolf

    that last photo is upside down
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    timberwolf

    I visited it today, very cool, and ummmmmm long...........
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