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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

Funny how videos can be dated by the cars in them. Except for Cuba where every video looks like 1959 And one day New Zealand where videos will look like 2025 for ever

20 years ago, probably not spoiler alert - they made it https://adventureblog.net/2020/05/20-years-ago-two-men-crossed-the-atlantic-ocean-in-floating-cars.html

Yeah the americas cup and F1 screwed them over totally

So the figures are out, $5m in cash and $94m in inflated charges love the new headland. Just what we need, another north head https://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/americas-cup/125476415/as-the-americas-cup-door-probably-closes-a-new-one-opens-for-auckland

https://www.repco.co.nz/en/globes-batteries-electrical/electrical-accessories/horns/air-horn-12v-115db-acx5108/p/A1193525

Couple of airhorns in a box, push button and ciggy socket to the committee boat Just visible top left in this pic

Not really. thats a reaching machine and heavy. AC boat doesn't have to cross the Atlantic or bass strait and only needs to do windward leewards. No cantered, or moving ballast. Maybe a dss foil but not radical as they need to tack quick and close, And sails, lots of them Never happen though

I'd like to see a scaled up tp52, 75 to 90'

Farr 727 is a very pretty boat

And no doubt inflated through the roof given the dearth of events over the last year. When ASB Showgrounds are to the wall council properties owning the viaduct arena would have been gloating over the millions they made. In accounting talk, debit Americas Cup Grant megabucks, Credit Stadium rents received megabucks, aren't we doing well, bonus to this account please

They lynch mob bagging coutts and butterworth for going to alinghi even though tnz had told them they weren't worth the money they were getting. Has anyone ever been so wrong? led by Murray deaker who can be forgiven because....Murray deaker.... but also a few yachting industry leaders, sailors that I won't name because it's an embarrassment on their good deeds elsewhere for yachting

Not all that surprising. The IAC Class was at the end of its development. Any gains would come at a very high cost. Like Formula 1. That last .1 of a second per lap is the hardest to get. I was told last night the Black Heart hierarchy were quite happy for it to go offshore.

The big (only?) loser is Goff who used most of the money to develop the viaduct under the guise of AmCup funding