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Brokers will not generally recommend any surveyor due in large part to liability, any broker usually does have a handful of cardholders topped up regularly by surveyors. Obviously any hardball surveyor that is too nitpicky or regularly blows a sale will find it harder, but actually they are doing their jobs and signing their name on the documents, its that important. Most surveys the owner pays for the lift and hold, most yards require the vessel be pressure washed , which let's be realistic allows the surveyor to do his job, the potential purchaser pays for the survey. Any ow

Just a pity they don't seem to like taking enough lifejackets or putting a phone in a ziplock bag.

Agree with all above and will add moving the winches aft may create a lead angle being interferred with by the vessels curve aft, check before moving anything there is likely a very good reason they are where they are.

Well "passed on the oar" can be read two ways, both have nautical implications.

San Fran, cross trees? Do you mean spreaders? the statement doesn't make things clear, where does the wire start and where does it end? You mention chainplates so we are talking a cap shroud, an intermediate a lower.......? And yes I agree with IT, it doesn't matter if the worlds best rigger put it in, its your job to make sure its done right coz the rigger ain't gonna be around when the sh*t hits the fan. The only way you are going to know if the split pin is properly installed is to do some study or talk with a rigger, some riggers are helpful others have not got enou

Well this thread aged well.

Hopefully you remembered to throw the breaker before tightening things up, that can be a learning experience as well.

Yeah the shaft and the old worn gear I have, the shaft micces out at 23mm diameter so definitely old school built to last not like the shite that has obsolescence designed into the lifecycle. Don't know what the new stuff has size wise but I'm sure I would be disappointed.

Just been through this, the slow up was due to a heavily worn bronze gear teeth on the primary shaft of the Windlass The Windlass was a Maxwell Nilsson originally installed in the late 1980's. The boat a Farr 1220. I approached Maxwell they wanted nothing to do with it, much better luck with James Nilsson located on Hillside Rd, Glenfield. Bought the whole unit to them and they essentially serviced it and rebuilt it, they noted a couple of keyway keys that were stainless steel, they suggested replacing them with bronze which would fail before transferring load damage further d

Why the the powers that be didn't do a right turn and head north at the bottom of the Victoria St tunnel go under the Harbour and exit between the motorway and Barry's Point Road is beyond me. We do have some PC bureaucratic dickwads that exhibit such short term thinking its criminal. Quick put a band aid on it and declare the problem fixed, nobody will notice. We need infrastructure designed for 20 years not 5 and the dumbnuts that think we will all be electric soon, where are we going to get the power required to charge a nation of electric cars. Oopsie we haven't addressed that i

Seafarers are built by the guy that used to own/design/build Southern Pacific before they got absorbed by the Safety at sea/ Kiwi yachting entities actually he was there in the early Safety at Sea days. They rebuilt a batch of poorly built Aquapros for Aquapro because the quality out of China was shite as I recall. Seafarer build a good quality product quality German materials and welded not glued seams. if I was in the market for a new dinghy he would be my first call, has a factory up at Diary Flat so not too far away.

Hey dinghy driver meet Karma, Karma can be a bitch. Honestly some people don't deserve to have dinghy let alone a boat, what a twat.

NIWA has all sorts of data you can poll, its a cumbersome website to use and you have to be very specific or else it spits out garbage. It will depend upon where geographically, you need the info for and what you are trying to prove, whether a wind or rain event for instance. Additionally some stations gather complete data while others will collect say rainfall only. You can poll time ranges and dates to and from, actual wind direction and use several stations.

If the ferry had been two feet to the left they would have taken the rig out at the gooseneck and saved them having to pull the rig for the dangly top bit. What on earth makes people think they can win against a vessel like a ferry, stay out of their way.

Think this one has a fore aft hydraulic ram with a cam if I recall.

Agree Doc, have to ask, is this Pogo your new toy? Shaggybaxter over on SA has one he was close to selling.

A GME 403 the orange one, is essentially obsolete- bravo on finding some cheap replacement batteries but one has to wonder how do you value life especially at sea? Why would you not invest in a GPS capable EPIRB, Accuracy improves from 4 sq miles to often less than 100 metres which is comforting to know when you have hit the big red button WHILE stepping up into a life raft more especially so if you are treading water. Plenty of time to ponder how much you saved on batteries for an obsolete EPIRB. THERE SHOULD BE NO SHORT CUTS ON SAFETY. Someone on site found a brand new G

The amount spent on reversing everything would make the idea moot and you would have all of the uglier sides up, can't. imagine it being a good look.

There was a 50 ftr in the States, the story goes when he told his wife he was going to build another race boat a huge row broke out. He named the boat FUJIMO, stands for F... U Jane I'm Moving Out.

Ok that makes sense I would have thought a great circle route would allow him to get closer to his target while getting south. Hence the confusion.

Left turn? I'm confused.

Have seen the boat on the hard at Little Shoal Bay, hard to tell if you're coming or going..........😀

Yep did my blind nav for YM Offshore many moons ago in the Solent, it was shall we say challenging , had to know Morse and Flags too and no I'm not that old.....

With a few pearler sailing days mixed in that unfortunately all occurred during lockdown.....grrrr.

Talking with Matt on this very subject, have a 1220 and Voltage and Ammeter look like they a finally giving up have cleaned contacts etc. Long short I have ordered a Victron BMV 712 Smart at Matt's suggestion looks smart pardon the pun. https://www.victronenergy.com/blog/2017/09/18/bmv-712-smart-battery-monitor-with-bluetooth-built-in/