[New Hull cleaning regs for Auckland - more costs....]

I assume this applies to marina pontoons/fingers?

[1020 Mast step required]

Try Max at Stay Tuned rigging for the stays

[SSANZ Triple 2021]

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[25gm PFD cylinders - quantity available. Free to Crew]

Def keen for a few spares on the boat. Ill be on one of the check in tables at breifing

[The Cup is gone]

16 minutes ago, waikiore said:

PS another excellent cartoon in the Herald today

What a useful comment.

Who reads the Herald? 
 

[Daggerboard lubricant (none / silicone / grease / something more exotic )]

I used to wet the boards of my GBE with seawater before putting them down.

Once I sprayed them with dry glide or similar, but be aware if you do that, painting and repairs etc need really really good prep.

I found wet and dry them nice and smooth and wet them and that was enough. Could never move under load, dont worry about that.

[Stepping Out, Spencer Saraband, 2389]

loving the story. Thanks!

[WTB 80mm ID carbon tube 5.2m]

Have you looked on your foredeck? I think there is one there. Looks a lot like a spinnaker pole?

[Northern Triangle race]

Seems to be a lot of interest already, which is awesome.

Gale Force is keen for sure.

[Spinnaker Net]

I made one for Gale Force. We found it incredibly useful for shorthanded racing to precent wraps when doing marginal hoists or gybes. 

[SailGP]

It is incredibly annoying. And why oh why did the NZL team do soooo bad?

[Time to service the anchor winch...]

Slow may be a wiring issue. No need to ask how i just learnt that.

[Auckland Regatta 2021]

It sure was a great regatta. I was racing in the 40R div, and we had 12 W/L races over 3 days. Solid breeze on the weekend, some extremely close racing, big speeds downhill. Extremely hard work, can hardly move today!

[Expanding Foam Removal]

So for an update. Acetone did indeed damage the conduit, which i had to rip out, and now need to replace. 3-4 hours all up (just removing the wires) should have gone full destruction mode at the beginning and saved time. Ended up damaging the switch wires and nav light wires with all the pulling, so even more to redo. 
 

Expanding foam will not be used again! 
 

Now to fix the blocked toilet while i get new cables made up...

[Expanding Foam Removal]

I have anchor winch cables and nav light wires i need to replace, but they are well glued into a conduit by expanding foam of some kind, presumably to stop leaks. 
 

Any ideas on how to remove them? 

[new ac race dates set]

My god there are some boring old men with selective memories. 
I know you think you recall close racing with lead changes and exciting starts, but that is such rose tinted glasses nonsense.

IACC racing was in general so boring it puts insomniacs to sleep. Sure there was some epic racing, but in general, win the start, win the race. Just like now.

go on youtube and watch. My god its dull

[herald ban?]

Good job.  The joke of a newspaper has been doing so much unnecessary sh*t stirring over the last year about ETNZ. 

There is a difference between raising valid concerns over taxpayer money and click baiting with sensational headlines. 

[Club Med?]

1 minute ago, Black Panther said:

I was thinking of the boat Alain Colas sailed in the transat

I think it is that one

[The Gulf Alone]

Ive entered

[The Wild West Gulf]

20 minutes ago, Addem said:

It’s not just jet skis. 
I had two situations in the Gulf during the last week. One was a launch and the other an enormous sailing cat (which did a beautiful gybe of their Code 0 after we bore away to let them past, so clearly are experienced). Also saw another showing no interest in giving way to Prada so Prada had to bear away and go around them.
 

I’m becoming a proponent of more regulation out there. 

Pretty sure the teams want you to keep a consistent course and they go around you. ETNZ def does.  If you suddenly turn to avoid a boat doing 40 as they take evasive action it could be 'fun'.  

[The Gulf Alone]

I’m pretty keen on this, just trying to sort a few things out, big job to get boat back into race mode, so might be playing as a cruiser!

[Yacht semi submerged off Waikalabubu]

True story

[Yacht semi submerged off Waikalabubu]

Rite off

[Next Cup]

How dull

[YNZ Race Regulations Cat1-Cat5; Anomalies and concerns]

I suspect the sail requirements are for new sails aren't they?

 They always grandfathered in existing setups. for example the orange storm jibs.  Old storm jibs didnt need the colour, new ones did.  Mine has orange corners, new ones fully orange?

So if you have a 40% reef point, you dont need to go and move it for the new reg to 50%, but if you build a new sail this year, you better line up...

I don/t think I agree necessarily, as the head of a well reefed main should prob line up with some sort of mast support, mid panel prob not ideal.