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Pretty cool looking boat.
But yikes. 6m of chain on a 14m boat?
- 44 lbs CQR anchor, equipped with 20’ of 3/8″ chain and 150’of 3/4″ Yale Brait anchor rode
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There are some...
I follow Historic Vessel Vega and they're often posting cool vids of traditional building and photo's of old boats.
https://www.facebook.com/Historic-Vessel-Vega-125068434229063
This is the Cutty Sark at Mill Wall back in 1937. No wonder she was so fast.
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23 minutes ago, ballystick said:
Yes, IT, see that reef structure on the northern side in the narrow entrance which looks quite obvious in this image, is actually very solid and not that obvious in the Garmin map, I entered at hign tide and with calm conditions and found it, the reefs to the south made me stay away from there!
Next time no problem and I had been there plenty of times, I will take a photo after lockdown.
My garmin doesn't show a navigable gap on the northern side/inside of that bombie at the entrance to Coralie. Yet later versions do.
Last year right on dark I was going into Administration bay for the first time, had checked plotter for hard things poking up from bottom which showed nothing, at the last minute I turned on navionics on my phone, it takes a few seconds to fire up and bugger me days I was right beside this rock below. It doesn't show on my garmin, I've looked and zoomed and looked, it's not there. No idea if I was 1 inch away or 1 metre but doubt it was more.
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Has anyone else done the ynz survey, I stopped at these questions which a little unusual. Maybe they're concerned how much I smell on my boat?
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You can get sky (sport) for a month for $40, no decoder req, I've been casting to the tv but I'm sure you could do the same from your phone.
It's good as you can scroll back through the schedule and watch anything you want at any time.
Apart from the fact I seriously begrudge paying sky a single penny it's been really good (we got it this month and will keep it for the Olympics)
Or you can save $40 and watch on tv1, the fee is having to put up with Toni Street...
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1 hour ago, Deep Purple said:
20 years ago, probably not
spoiler alert - they made it
So what's the next step in the evolution of this idea?
Crossing the Tasman...???
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Not really Waiheke but a big slap in the face for Stuart Nash.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/court-overturns-ministers-decision-on-tarakihi-fishing-limits
The High Court has found that the former minister of fisheries, Stuart Nash, incorrectly set the catch limit on Tarakihi by taking into account industry proposals over official advice.
“When deciding how long a fish stock should take to recover, the minister should consider the biology of the fish, not a voluntary industry plan,” the court said.
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12 minutes ago, Black Panther said:
So TNZ is essentially a business owned by GD and one other and they want to take it out if Nz in search of more money.
Don't let the door hit you in the arse on the way out.
Imagine Dalton is doing his very best to protect what I imagine is a very healthy salary for himself and a bunch of others (no one can blame him for that really).
Also guess he's doing exactly what he's told with the options he's been presented by Emirates/Ratcliffe.
Option A- you and your team keep earning megabucks and we race in the solent as per sir jimbos request.
Option B - you race in Auckland. Good luck, you'll probably need it. (and we'll most likely race on the solent in 4 years time)
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42 minutes ago, Fogg said:
Funny how the opinion trolls in the herald don't mention dropping a roading project.
The Herald is the kiwi equivalent of The Sun minus page 3...
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57 minutes ago, aardvarkash10 said:
There - just added $750m to the funding pool!
while we're at it might as well cut pen link out as well and easily have a billion...
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On 7/06/2021 at 2:07 PM, marinheiro said:
if you read this as well, https://www.denaraumarina.com/covid-19/ it would appear a boat clearing into Denerau is restricted to Viti Levu, and maybe you cannot even go shopping in Lautoka. Agree with various comments that Fiji is not the place to be this year, in particular out of respect for the locals who if the virus gets away on them are going to have their hands full.
This is the cat I was asking Boo Boo about, looks like they have just pulled out of Minerva heading south.
https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/Curiosity
The boat has alot of issues, they want a very settled passage south..
Looks like they should be in in a matter of hours, pretty smooth passage?
Guess they'll be straight to quarantine and the next episode will tell how the passage went.
Are you the agent helping them out MH?
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21 hours ago, marinheiro said:
if you read this as well, https://www.denaraumarina.com/covid-19/ it would appear a boat clearing into Denerau is restricted to Viti Levu, and maybe you cannot even go shopping in Lautoka. Agree with various comments that Fiji is not the place to be this year, in particular out of respect for the locals who if the virus gets away on them are going to have their hands full.
This is the cat I was asking Boo Boo about, looks like they have just pulled out of Minerva heading south.
https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/Curiosity
The boat has alot of issues, they want a very settled passage south..
Been watching their vids for a year or two, they're quite funny at times.
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1 hour ago, Elenya said:
That looks off the beaten path! 👌
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Pumping!
I happened to look at the live cam about 2.30 yday and saw them towing in. Productivity halted...
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This looks quite interesting.
https://www.yachtingworld.com/races/how-to-follow-the-ocean-race-europe-131973
VO65's and IMOCA 60's, both fully crewed.
Leg 1: Lorient, France – Cascais, Portugal
Leg 2: Cascais, Portugal – Alicante Spain
Leg 3: Alicante Spain – Genova, ItalyDesigned and built for the Volvo Ocean Race, the VO65 has been used in the last two editions of the crewed round the world race. The VO65 are a fleet of pure one design boats, meaning each boat is identical, making gains more a matter of crew performance over and above technical developments.
Having been around the world twice, the 65ft racing yachts are extremely well proven and known to be near-bulletproof (if exceptionally wet) in extreme ocean conditions. Many previous teams have invested serious training time and data crunching resources into extracting the best outright performance from them, hence there is a great deal of technical knowledge within the fleet on how to select and set up the correct sail plan (from a range of options), as well as the optimum keel angles (they have a canting keel), and heel angles for maximising the VO65’s performance across a broad wind range.
IMOCA60s, like Charal, have recently allowed semi-lifting foils and have long been sailed short-handed. How will the fare in fully crewed racing? Photo: Gauthier LEBEC / Charal Sailing Team
IMOCA60
The Ocean Race Europe and The Ocean Race mark a significant change for the IMOCA fleet. The boats are best known as the class of the Vendée Globe, the single-handed around the world race.
The IMOCA60 is a development class, meaning each boat is different and there can be significant differences in terms of performance from boat to boat. There are some one-design components such as the keel and mast, but broadly the design is unrestricted within the dimensions of the class rule.The IMOCA60 class is owned and managed by a consortium of owners and interested parties, which make up The International Monohull Open Class Association (hence IMOCA). Unlike the Ocean Race, which has traditionally been very international, the IMOCA class is dominated by French skippers, with some internationals including English, German and Spanish sailors.
The Ocean Race Europe will be significant because it will be the first major test of the IMOCA 60s in a new ‘fully crewed’ format. The class has historically been designed to be sailed by one or two crew members, with the key race for the fleet being the single-handed non stop round the world race, the Vendée Globe, as well as other single and double-handed transatlantic races.
The requirements for a fully crewed race (there will be five crew on each IMOCA60 for the Ocean Race Europe) are very different to shorthanded sailing. Firstly the IMOCA60s have mostly been designed to be sailed by one or two people, so cockpit layouts, winches, pedestals etc. have all been designed for the ergonomics of shorthanded sailing – as has much of the rest of the boat, including the limited interior space down below.
Perhaps even more important will be the strength of the boats themselves. The VO65 was built with fully crewed racing in mind (where teams are aiming to push the boat 100% of its performance envelope 100% of the time) and were made suitably robust for this purpose. As one-designs they could also be designed with some degree of latency in their robustness – it doesn’t matter if the design is slightly heavier, if all the boats are equally heavy.
The IMOCA60, by contrast, is designed to be sailed to 100% of its performance over short periods of time, but with a solo skipper is unlikely to spend more than 70-80% of its time operating at performance. As an open design, IMOCA60s are typically built as light as possible within the confines of the class rule. How the IMOCA60s will stand up to the punishing demands of a fully-crewed multistage race may be interesting to watch.
What teams are in Ocean Race Europe?
VO65 class:
AmberSail (LTU)
Austrian Ocean Race Project (AUT)
Mirpuri Foundation Racing Team (POR)
Sailing Poland (POL)
Viva Mexico (MEX)
Team Childhood 1 (SWE / NED)
AkzoNobel Ocean Racing (NED)IMOCA class:
11th Hour Racing Team (USA)
CORUM L’Epargne (FRA)
LinkedOut (FRA)
Offshore Team Germany (GER)
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17 hours ago, Deep Purple said:
That's an awesome photo of the wharf!
I spent 4 years going over Brophy's hill in a skool bus many years ago and I don't recall ever seeing the bay break right across like that. The boats moored at front beach would have had an interesting time.
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8 hours ago, lateral said:
Hawai, Maraenui,woulds be interested to see as protected from SE. Whaka heads for a brown one or two.
Wrap into Whangapoua?
Still triggers the surf fever in me even with body deficit, seeing a dartboard like that.
Got to be happy i've had my share.
Hard not to get excited about a system like that hey lateral, esp when it sits and churns for several days, how often does that happen!
Whangapoua on the coro won't be any good, s.e bowls straight in there, few miles east will be worth a look though.
Northport wave buoy showing a lift already - https://northport.co.nz/weatherfeed
Best place to be tomorrow will be 45mins west of Hamilton, 16s period swell, perfect offshore and every man and his dog heading east.
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51 minutes ago, 44forty said:
Or even the corner of the shipping channel off Busby head , that’s a sight to behold when it breaks
There you go, never heard of that breaking.
Pity about the wind really, going to bugger up a lot of places.
Imagine half of gissy and 90% of towelranga will be battling to find a park at Motu rivermouth.
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1 hour ago, 44forty said:
4.5m on Sunday !
Might be the first time in years that Cemetery Point has a wave on it.
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Snapseeded to bring out the clouds a little more
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Another vote for Excel, held us tight in 55+ at Port Charles where plenty will tell you is the shittiest holding on the Coromandel. Had to tow the anchor out next morning.
Same discussion being had about anchors on Attainable Adventure Cruising which is a subscription site but they won't touch Rocna's and always had Spades as #1, but in the latest blurb they rate Excel's as equal to Spades.
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2 hours ago, Veladare said:
I had 5 weeks at Xmas and practically every weekend since then till now on my yacht.... Ive had the sails up 3 times and of that was twice motor sailing....
Mentally. Ive checked out of yacht cruising
Is that the downside of not having a boat that performs upwind Veladare? (you have a cat yeah?)
I find it amazing how many yachts motor into the wind, or even motor downwind, makes me wonder when they do put the sails up if they're not up going downwind.
We've got an old motor with an undersized prop so mostly try to sail as the donk is noisy, but even so, the motion is so much nicer sailing.
There is a cav 45 on TM at the moment, engine 11 years old, 4100hrs.
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A friend has a HR46 he sailed back from Europe.
I sent him the link to that Finot Conq 53 'cruiser' IT put up y.day and he had a one word reply - French.
As he says, an HR will get you there and back in style and comfort.
It's a pity you need to sell the firstborn to afford one.
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