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Great upgrade from Class B for an offshore vessel - means the satellites can see you ALL the time instead of MOST of the time on class B...

anywhere in NZ? Mana is pretty good - Wellington - $500/m for a 12m....

Make sure whatever you get is FCC compliant (or IEC). It's illegal in NZ to use an uncertified transmitter. For your info, a NAIS 500 (B&G or Simrad) is $955 + GST, and is compliant.

Also note that the standard is NOT retrospective, despite what some inspectors are trying to apply for EWOF's.... Its a shambles, and has been for years, with the electrical registration board exonerating themselves and trying to make the inspectors liable for any issues that come up in applying their standards. It's not surprising that the inspectors are cautious. Yes, for any new vessels its going to get difficult....

From the NZ standards site; AS/NZS 3004.2:2014 Current Date published: 27/06/14 So, no, there are no current standards requiring IEC compliance. The current standard says "Lead-acid storage batteries, alkaline and lithium ion storage batteries shall not be placed in a common cabinet or container or in close vicinity to each other." "2.9.3 Additional requirements for lithium ion batteries The following additional requirements apply: (a) Lithium ion batteries shall be installed in locations that ensure the battery manufacturer’s specified operating temperature lim

Normally Yachts use the B&G version - V60B. I've put lots of these on customers boats and had no issues.... If the display is too small for AIS and you have a MFD or Triton2 displays, they can do the AIS instead... via NMEA2000...

What BooBoo said. The amount of rudder blade forward of the pivot point is what provides rudder balance (ease of turning). Those rudders look like they drop down to probably fwd of the pivot point - it's essential that they lock down properly and cannot move aft in their cases - even a few mm makes a big difference. So the balance on the rudders controls helm load, but as Booboo says, the centre of lateral resistance v the centre of effort of the rig denotes how MUCH rudder is needed to counter any rotational forces. If you need a few deg of rudder to keep the boat sailing straight, then

I'd be interested to read of any incident with LIFEPO4 batteries being identified as the cause of ANY fire, ashore or afloat, BMS failure or not. LifePo4 batts are VERY hard to make burn (ABYC tried to do it and couldn't) - other Lithium chemistries have no place on a boat IMO.

Or you could try Rats (member on here) - send him a PM...

Yep, I've got a good one, just needs lower seals done. Low hours, excellent condition, was used on a duck punt...make an offer.

Imo this is a leadership failure. All crew should be warned and aware of possibility of a gybe when sailing deep, esp by the lee. No-one should be positioned even close to where they could be hit, regardless of convenience. Crew safety is paramount, and any helmsman, tactician or skipper should be well aware of any time when this is possible.

Depends on the platform. LINZ NZ do raster and vector charts for NZ for free - but you need a system (like opencpn) that can display them. None of the main Marine Electronics companies support them...

Just a note BK, now that Garmin own Navionics, and Navico have bought C-map, all the development work from Navico is now Cmap... There are several levels of charts, the basic one being "Discover", then the advanced one being "Reveal" NZ Reveal charts are $294 + GST, Discover is $146 + GST. There is not yet a Reveal for the pacific, Discover (Pacific Territories) is $294 + GST. From Navico - reveal "Cruising, fishing or sailing, C-MAP® REVEAL™ charts offer the very best of C-MAP. With Shaded Relief, including game-changing Reveal Seafloor Imagery, Aerial Photography, Satellite Overlay an

The 800 is obsolete, replaced by the 810.

There are not a heap of Laser 2's around. Should not be too hard to build a new rudder and stock if you have the old ones for measurements??

Id go now or Tomorrow... Always watch developments, and stop if needed...

Hmm last night was unexpected to me. I thought Prada would do it - they had given 2 races to Ben due to failures. However, last night, Ben was faster...lightly the brits will win now I think. Great racing, and close!

The Louis Vitton has been pretty good IMO. The final two boats are pretty close, and the racing is interesting...

It's 420 odd nautical miles from North Cape to Nelson. 3 days for most boats, or 2 to NP, and one to Nelson. 24hr days... Opua to Nelson Id go W coast.

Only had them try that with me once. Asked for a supervisor, who read the appointment letter, no problems... A stamp is possibly not necessary, but anything that makes the letter look more official might help. You could, of course, check with your airline. Just record who you speak to, and time/date, or even record the call...

I've always managed with an appointment letter from the vessel, Stamped with the vessels stamp and signed by the owner/skipper, saying you are appointed as crew on SV XYZ, registration details, from date XXXXXX as skipper/mate/deckhand whatever. Vessel is currently in Fiji waters and expects to depart approximately XXXXXX. Never been an issue... Commercial Mariners do this all the time.

So she would have capsized in a mast on the water incident with everything battened down! That, IMO is not a seaworthy keel yacht...

Well, this is interesting "the builder Perini, has stated Bayesian had positive stability to 73 degrees with the board up and 88 degrees with the board down."

in GH marina at present...

Saving on marina fees as I understand it...liveaboard.