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They have a few days ago I believe. She's an interesting character that's for sure. Had plans to do the longest ever solo passage without stopping, needed to be 3 years or something at sea to break the record.

Friends of pur saw the boat in Fitzroy a few days ago. Storm in a teacup.

I can't find many specs for the Nova 28 online or in my database right now but I would think I could supply both a main and genoa in Tri Dacron for around 5k. If you have any basic dimensions then I can price it up properly for you or if the boat is in Auckland I could come down and measure it up then quote. www.roguesails.co.nz

Hayden Braddock from Marine Survey Group does a really good job. Always done my surveys.

Looking at the rudder setup I would think that the blades would need to be all the way down to have the correct balance with enough blade forward of the rudders pivot point. Half rudder would make most of the blade being behind the pivot point and a huge load on the helm. Hard to tell from the photos but it looks like the centreboards have some angle aft? Again the centreboard depth makes a big difference as you need the centre of effort/lateral resistance of the boat to be in the right place in relation to the sail plan and not enough centreboard blade makes the rudder work as the latera

You really think so? Looks like he's getting hung out to dry pretty badly to me... Just got caught to far to windward and couldn't sail low enough to get back in touch.

If you are talking about the ST4000 tiller drive that goes with the EV100 then no you can't really steer the boat with it attached. It will move a small amount but not enough to actually steer a boat properly.

Ever tried VMG flat running in light winds on a wide powerfull foiling IMOCA 60?

It's an old Grand Mistral 80 race boat that's been converted to a cruiser. They livebon board and are just saving on marina fees. Pretty sure they have a container or some kind of storage setup at gulf harbour somewhere and bring the dinghy in there often. He's not an easy guy to deal with.

Just to clarify its no where near the tallest mast in the world. It's the second tallest alloy mast in the world. There are many masts that are much taller. Maybe when it was launched it was close but not these days. The yacht A for example has 3 masts with one of them being 100m which is 28m taller that Bayesian. Aquijo has 2 90m masts M5 89m Bayesian 72m. Tall mast but way off the tallest and in fact she's not a huge boat in the superyacht world. I'm no stranger to these big boats, have delivered and raced them all round the world but I am truly staggered at the

I thought Sneaky frog was on the last leg of the Round North Island race when it sank?

The resene marine shield paint is the answer. Makes them look like new again.

Same...

Yes I have a spare Kiwi Prop. Was only used for about a year before I replaced it with a Gori. Specs below.

Talk us through your day Nigel. I jumped on Serena to fill in for one of the owners who couldn't make it. Bloody cool boat and we managed to win the long haul division. Big park up under Rangitoto that took a few hours to negotiate but overall a really nice day on the water. Thanks to Brendan on Kick (Kick ass) for taking my 14 year old as crew for this series.