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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.

It races regularly out of Panmure.

Rogue 3 will be supplying the obnoxious music.

Yup my battery monitor is a Victron BMV 702 as well as my 3 Solar regulators. All Bluetooth on my phone. see attached screenshot of all victron units. Note that screenshot was taken in at night and the top one is on the start battery hense the different voltage readings. Yes there is alternator and battery temperature sensors on the regulator. Also a picture of the alternator type and boat for reference.

All makes good sense thanks Rowan. Might have to employ you for a few days to have a look at it. What is the advantage of keeping the 3 way splitter and adding the DC-DC chargers as well? Would you ever drop the thruster/anchor winch out of that circuit and then just use a bigger DC-DC charger onto them?

Were you expecting there to be an additional BMS somewhere in the system? This was all installed in 2017 and done alot of miles. Nothing wrong with it I just think I can get more out of it. The only change I made was an upgrade from the Balmar 612 to a 612 party due to a terminal breaking off the 612 (fixed a while ago but not perfect) and I thought the Lifepo4 charge profile might extract a bit more juice out of the alternator. Obviously I have played with the belt manager and other settings to make sure the field current is not being limited.

The BMS is built into the lifepo4 batteries.

Pretty sure the BMS is not connected to the Balmar 614 but it could be. It's all a bit above my skill set. I have a victron 30a DC-DC charger which I was going to use to the start battery and then look at getting another one for the thruster batteries. You are right that if I connect the Anchor winch to the house bank then the start and thruster batteries will not need a huge charging setup. They don't do much work really. What do I need between the alternator and lifepo4 bank to protect the alternator if the BMS shuts the batteries off?

Haha only 3 amplifiers and a couple of cooling fans. It's the smoke machine and laser lights that really do the damage!

Bow bank is currently just for the Bow thruster. I have no real way of measuring the discharge on these other than the voltage but it's only used in short bursts.

I can only get around 50A into the house batteries. Charging goes into a 3 way battery isolator to the house, start and thruster battery banks. Biggest issue right now is that the new balmar smart regulator is set on the Lifepo4 profile and cuts out all charging when the house bank is full until they get down to around 90% again. Anchor winch feeds off the start battery which isn't ideal when the regulator has shut the alternator down. Fine to just drop the anchor but if you have to reset a few times the start battery gets very low. I can put the solar into the start battery if needed.