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Good on Peter Burling for poking the bear at the press conference! Got a snap too. It doesn't seem like his style, but I hope he has more.
Shifty day and having regained the lead covering would have been the go in latter stages of R 2. I know you have to be brave but win it 1st.
I don't do Facebook but opened the link to ETNZ page and a poster noted that Oracle removed something from the boat immediately
after race 2. Anybody know anything??
I'm assuming it was something other than a strutting Aussie helmsman.
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out of the ordinary maybe, bizarre certainly not. He survived which makes it the correct choice.
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even more fun is running the diesel dry tank at Motuhiue so you know there is no option but to use what's free, sailing off the anchor and onto the old W (?) pier ( before the yellow dock got shifted there) at , filling up at and going back out. All single handed and without incident.
Taught me a lot.
Including not to run the tank dry
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Funny how this guy can be celebrated but others with the same 'free spirit' get a caning for daring to ask...
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but entirely believable. I'd be watching my back if I was the devil, and that should mean someone else can punch said Devil fair in that smarmy gob hehas.
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Televised live on sky today. BAR did kind of make a meal of it although unsurprising differences given the
size of foils on TNZ. Almost a mono foil.
Cover don't cover question remains a no brainer - doesn't matter what class of boat - with 2 evenly matched boats the one with the tactical strength
should win. I'd suggest at this time the result for every team except Oracle is to have made the next round and so shooting away on a flyer is either a "lets see" or "we don't give a rats" moment.
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Neither, I'll go down to the Squadron and watch what I can with a bacon butty
Slap on some sunscreen, order French fries with it, and you'll feel like you were there
Seriously, a question tho' - will they admit anyone or does one have to be a member. I quite like bacon butties and have a list of places around town where they can be obtained. Didn't know Squadron was in the game.
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my wife says im never allowed to do it, even if i won the funds in lotto to pay for it
That's just plain mean.
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...Turns out gh won't haul you if your bottom is dirty????
BP have they told you that? i.e. have you just heard from someone 2nd hand or did you see their lips move..
If it is the latter - anybody want to buy a Townson 36?** Never been rallied, raced or rolled ...
I'm almost done with this kind of crap.
** semi joking, but if the offer is right I'll consider it
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Whakatane looks to be in the cross hairs. Good luck to all - run for the hills.
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Do I understand correctly that this is 1500RPM and now 1000 RPM in Neutral??
Yes Wheels that is what I believe I was told. He was speaking in an Auckland version of South Islandish though, so I could be mistaken.
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on behalf of a friend down south...
has a Jeanneau Gin Fizz (38' cruising fin keel, skeg hung rudder with a fixed 3 blade prop). No idea what size prop off the cuff.
Normal start regime is to let it warm up and kick it in the guts to 2400rpm just because. Yesterday will not go beyond 1500rpm (unloaded) after warm up. Motoring from Nelson to Mapua it would not go beyond 1500 rpm. Cruising revs are 1500rpm underway but normally when asked - will push on to higher rpm and dig a bigger hole in the ocean....
Got to Mapua, tied up to the wharf for a cup of tea and a sleep, later in day started again but now would not run beyond 1000rpm.
Injector pump rebuilt approx.1 year ago. Nothing else has changed - except the inevitable fouling.
Oil pressure seems ok, fuel bowl clear of water, no warning lights, new diesel fill just recently. Boat gets used regularly.
What could the issue be?
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Thanks Willow. I'm surprised but all that means is I am unaware of the rules , hope no offence taken by any of the competitors, none was intended.
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yeah but I was thinking you might snag it on the barbe
Call me a dumb arse butI didn't know s/s was non magnetic. U learn something every day..
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But only Blink and Wedgetail are still in the hunt for Div 1 as all others have swapped crew at some point
Jon - I read this a few days ago and just wondering is crew swapping normal? I have no axe to grind with anybody and I guess its within the rules, but it seems a bit strange to me - after all I would have though the idea was that a boat and its crew raced the race - whatever that is - round the lake/ the island/ the bouys - whatever.
Seems to me that the same 2 crew should be in for the duration, and I'm not sure why you'd do the race under any other circumstance.
I realise that things happen and if one of the crew gets hurt there is no option. Or did I just misunderstand your post?
Awesome to see Pahi performing so well. Just goes to show how the age of a boat does not necessarily determine its performance - and although you cannot compare different divisions with a straight face, the elapsed leg time puts Pahi up a division and 3rd in that div. Pretty damn good performance by crew and vessel.
In any case well done to all (including the organisers and the small army of volunteers) - but especially the battlers still out there who will complete the course unless they simply cannot.
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wot about trying a fecking big magnet on a string?
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Bloody computers have it in for me. Mine still will not work, RT 2 somewhere south of Napier according to what I see although I know that is bollocks.
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Is everybody elses tracker bung or is it just mine? I know many of the big boys have finished, but tracker seems frozen?
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Had to tow Rigmarole to the start
Why did she need a tow?
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sponsors dream stuff isn't it.
Win at all costs and if crap happens & u don't win, make a bloody big noise so
everybody talks about it.
Go you good thing..
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yeah if u read trade me the 'winning' bidder on prev auction failed to front with the cash. Beautiful vessel for sure but a limited market, and (I think I have read somewhere) it was a training vessel for Ozzie Navy once in years gone by I'd think it may take a substantial crew to operate it.
I think she says in current auction $65k per annum maintenance cost. Brightwork like that needs serious attention I'd think
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have a rope hanging down so you can pull yourself up.It is going to get adjusted this week.
Measure distance to prop first. Make it a shorter line than that distance
and tie or splice a loop bigger than your sea boot size in it (so u can get your foot in it easily)-
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That might have been useful in deg centigrade.
https://www.seatemperature.org/australia-pacific/new-zealand/auckland.htm
Currently 3 - 12 hours survival time in Auckland area.
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They say pressure makes diamonds but this is just plain cruel. Poor bugger. Having said that & I imagine he may be reciting - "that which does not
kill makes me stronger"
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awesome .
Seems accessible to all without massive $ backing. Wouldn't it be cool to see some backyard genius do something really out there and win it? Surely
that's a way of making the everyday guy interested.