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I purchased Jagor's remote horn relay and set it up yesterday. Works so well. I can Bluetooth to the boats stereo so that the countdowns are loud and clear to the race crew and the horn goes all by itself. Magic!!! I haven't set it up with a battery as I only intend to use it in my fizz boat but there is room to do so if I want.

What does the N22 weigh? That trailer looks very light. No diagonals?

Man, what a tough start to the regatta. Boat speed looks good but struggling in the fleet enviroment. Josh Junior could have been pinged several times until the ultimate port starboard that cost him so much close to the first mark. everyone else doing it the hard way too Pete and Blair look quick so I'm picking them to come back strong.

Ha! Motoring back up the river. Harbourmaster would get the pricker if we came in under genny

Set a new personal monohull record

Had a cannon on the bow that fired potatoes. I remember one day Allan was pacing the marina, brick to his ear. Jenny said he was uptight about the "cottage" next door in Paratai Drive being for sale and development might block his view. She smiled and said she'd bought it but hadn't told him. Had the largest arms collection in NZ and a huge shooting range under the house Both Jennys were the centre of attention back then

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Was mainsheet trimmer on Mint owned by John Faire in the early 90's. Fun boats. Many an after-race function on the Dave Giddens skippered Jenny G. Namesake owners wife Jenny Gibbs always turned up with massive food platters and rum.

Always easy to moan but the handicappers got it pretty right. Nothing in there that looks out of whack. For some reason the boats behind finished a lot stronger. If you look at the first half of the fleet that finished on racetrack, they mostly only achieved around 95% of racetrack rating whereas the second half were most above 100%. Maybe the oncoming tide pushed them more, the sea flattened, or maybe they just sailed better

No if you look closely you can see the gennaker tack a few feet forward of the bundle. We hoist and drop from the main hatch.

Yep, tack-line out a couple of feet then halyard to the top between the two lower stays, then tack-line then sheet. Opposite to drop, grab sheet, tack-line away bring tack and clew together, bunch up and drop. Thats all assuming you have space to run flat for hoist and drop. Gennakers only

Busting out

Nah, line's where it's at.

We had a great race. Nailed a good start going with masthead genny when others held back, seeing that the wind would shift aft well aft before motuhie. Ended up in just behind Rogue 2 and a couple of cruising division big boats. Held our spot across to navy buoy then a smoking reach across to the noisies under masthead then 3/4 kite to take the lead of the whole fleet which we held until almost home bay motutapu. then a ten mile beat to windward in a wind against tide chop and we could do nought but watch big-boat after big-boat pass us. we finished 1st in line in our divis

And very pricey. The issue you may have with that type of pedestal is engaging the cleat in a deepish narrow cockpit. But in a Tasman 20 you probably won't be loading the main so hard that you can't push it in with your foot.

Getting sorted

I used to take sundreamer up there for work and antifouling as he had the only travel lift in the region wide enough. He was always very fair on pricing

Not for much longer possibly https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/125651171/court-orders-end-to-feuding-boatbuilding-brothers-stoush-over-7-million-land

Not yet but not designed for rum racing and ditch dancing

Thats a good idea. I cleaned out a bunch of sailing books from my mums house over the last couple of weeks and gave most to the local hospice shop. But I have a couple "Auckland by the sea" "hauraki gulf" "mahurangi" that probably wouldn't have found a buyer here so I kept them to offer to anyone on the other side of the range to have for free or pass on to a north Auckland hospice. Was going to try and find someone on facetok or instawitter

It is a given that if 2 yachts occupy the same body of water, at least one of them is racing Doesn't matter if the other knows, or is going the same way, or is even a yacht or even a boat. I raced my wife (in car) back from Sandspit to Westhaven one day, yacht won (long weekend traffic)

Yep, you could, but you'd need 100 buyers to place orders

124 Entries so far, Short-course Open looks to be getting a bit unwieldy. I feel very small in that fleet

sure is

In our case it needs to be portable as we have a range of members (mine) and club RIB's that perform as start boats. Ciggy sockets or alligator clips as approriate I remember making one up for SSANZ many years ago