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Anyone here have a Boat Repainted in Fiji, how did that go for you?
Deep Purple replied to 2flit's topic in TechTalk
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 -
Anyone here have a Boat Repainted in Fiji, how did that go for you?
Deep Purple replied to 2flit's topic in TechTalk
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
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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
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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)
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Yep, you could, but you'd need 100 buyers to place orders
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124 Entries so far, Short-course Open looks to be getting a bit unwieldy. I feel very small in that fleet
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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
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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
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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
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Yeah the americas cup and F1 screwed them over totally
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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
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https://www.repco.co.nz/en/globes-batteries-electrical/electrical-accessories/horns/air-horn-12v-115db-acx5108/p/A1193525
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Couple of airhorns in a box, push button and ciggy socket to the committee boat Just visible top left in this pic
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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
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I'd like to see a scaled up tp52, 75 to 90'
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Farr 727 is a very pretty boat
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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
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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
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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.
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The big (only?) loser is Goff who used most of the money to develop the viaduct under the guise of AmCup funding
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I'd rather watch TP52's or J-Boats battle it out in Americas Cup or just an event here. Those guys attract more billionaires/superyachts that the Americas Cup does. Rugby World Cup (or any other championship including the olympics) isn't held in the winners country by default. It's put out to the highest bidder by Rugby (always the winner on the day) I only watched the last one (all since 2000 actually) on TV so makes no difference to me where it's held
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Taking the Morgan?