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  1. Clipper

    timberwolf

    Not sure what your point is (other than trying to sound like a know it all). Top speeds are fun, and no one said "we sailed around the track at 30 knots" On Voom we finished over an hour behind you, but from our GPS track, we averaged 11knots over the ground, you would have had to average a fair bit more than that. Our top speed on the GPS was 21.5 under kite, 19.8 when 2 sailing with 2 reefs and the storm jib. Of course there is lots of slow times.For us, it was the bottom of every one of those steep waves, or the turning around for 24 minutes to search for and pick up the hatch
  2. Does anyone have any suggestions for good site to order gear from overseas?
  3. Clipper

    timberwolf

    thats a pretty eclectic collection of multis! All different bow shapes and cabin shapes and lack of cabin shapes. Very cool.
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    timberwolf

    Awesome. There goes my record!
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    timberwolf

    I thought the last Ac proved you needed a wing. If you were looking to argue a tri superiority within a rule, look to the ORMA developements whihc were nearly all tris for a reason. Boats designed within a rul all tend to end up similar over time as the best option becomes apparent. You have an open boat - is a tri really the way to go...?
  6. Clipper

    timberwolf

    I vote new main hull. Probably cheaper than new rig and sails too...
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    timberwolf

    last nights rum race. Just awesome reach from orakei to torpedo.
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    timberwolf

    Massive thread drift I know, but did you know your old 7.4 now lives in windy welly? I saw her at evans bay a few weeks ago. Tim, Timberwolf did look awesome for the few seconds we saw before you were gone...
  9. Saturday: Picked up mainsail with new reef point from Bill, took that and the book out to voom and fitted. Put on wetsuit and cleaned the bottom. Kinda chilly. Tried to fix winch, got grease everywhere, failed to fix winch, took winch off and home. Tried to fit new watertight bulkheads, bolts too short, gave up. Replaced starboard nav light, worked out somewhere to temporarily set up cooker so we can have a hot drink if the simrad 100 is a long slow one Sunday: Fitted bulkheads this time after getting new bolts! Finished ‘proof of concept’ version of temporary shelf for cooker. Mowed la
  10. So instead of working on the mini, you sulked in your room...?
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    timberwolf

    Mast is fine, amas look too long...
  12. Clipper

    timberwolf

    New Mast, or repainted old mast?
  13. Clipper

    timberwolf

    Wow. Can't wait to see to see that all finished up. I presume you are building a new rig too. When will she all be ready to splash?
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    timberwolf

    Lookin good tim - cant wait to see her all painted up and back on the water.
  15. Thanks for the update Rob. Where are you based?
  16. Hey Rob, Hows progress on your big proa? You looked to have hulls sorted when you came to talk to us, and were working on the rig (from memory anyway) ? Are you any closer to launch date? (this is a genuine enquiry, as I am interested in how it will go)
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    timberwolf

    Sanding time. My favourite bit of the game...
  18. Clipper

    timberwolf

    Awesome. Looking fast.
  19. Rob seems an intelligent, enthusiastic man, who is putting his ideas out there. The only 'crime' (for want of a better word) he seems to have committed is talking up his boats, specifically the time frames taken to build. But who hasn't done that? In recent days I have read that Timberwolf and Frantic Drift will be readyfor the coastal...I believe that was the intention some months ago, thats wehre the 'stories' may have come from. Keep it up rob, and let me come for a blat on your boat, whenever it is finished!
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    timberwolf

    Looks awesome Tim.
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    timberwolf

    Well, rumour has it they are a bit longer, so need a bit more structure...
  22. Those 2 look like brothers, not sisters. Scary beasts, the both of them. Horse that ran into a wall is what I think of.
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