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Rich kids are allowed to sail as well. The size of your outboard makes little difference to the support you can give to your kids while dinghy racing. Swallows and Amazons was also our favorite series of books as kids. My father has written a series of similar type books but based in NZ and Aussie and in more modern times. Probably my favorite of them is 'those sugar barge kids' based in the bay of islands.

The first thing is making the kids enjoy mucking around in boats. Second thing is making them good at it. If you swap that order then chances are they won't stick around.

Isn't that right in the heart of cyclone season?

Dress up theme this year? We will most likely be there.

So for the A350, 350nm at this time of the year. Not really a race for beginners. Sure you have to start somewhere but this race is most likely not going to be your first taste of sailing.... Anyone contemplating crewing in the race has already invested hundreds or more likely thousands on wet weather gear, life jacket/harness, sea boots ect. If its a boat that takes a complete beginner on a race like this then its very likely that the race/food costs are going to be split so there is more money. Then there is (at least) a day off work and the whole weekend for the race, plus a few evenings

I have a bunch of old ones. Give me a week or 2 to finish up here and I will see what's left over. The graphics seem very prone to screen failure. I have had 2 fail, going to try replacing it with a tridata.

We used a staysail to great effect on pepe in the RNI. Used inside the reaching sails only. Often we would have the fractional code zero and staysail set with 1 or 2 reefs in the main. Certainly the first sail reduction was always the main when we were reaching.

Yup im sure looking forward to getting back into it. Clipper and my brother sam have a massive head start on us in preparation for RNZ and the gale force is going real quick but we will give it everything! We have a huge task ahead to just make it to the start line... The boats still in Nelson and I'm in Niue about to head to Tonga. My first ever sail on the boat won't be until mid November. But that's part of the challenge, preparing and tweaking a boat for a big event is great fun. When are we planning the Elliott raft up party?

The Elliott 10.5 Squealer will be on its way to Auckland soon to. Going to be a big fleet of Elliots out there in the 35ft range!

We have a max prop 3 blade feathering on a 15 ton 50fter with a 110hp motor. No issues at all in 15,000nm so far and performance seems to be very good under sail and motor-never been passed on either. I do make a point of servicing it whenever we come out of the water.

Rogue sailing down the coast of Puerto Rico.

I spent a month cruising out there in the 90s. Crazy place. Tim, Probably the only real all weather anchorage on the whole island is port hutt which is on the west side of waitangi bay. There is the wreck of the old steamship Thommas Currell there that you can tuck behind. Other than that its pretty limited. All the other spots are jam packed with fishing boats.

I suppose there are 2 ways to look at everything. If you buy a NZ new boat of the same vintage that hasn't been offshore and want to kit it up for an offshore passage, you will be chucking a ton of time and money at it. Solar panels + a stainless arch/davit to put it on, watermaker, wind generator, inner jib, life raft, spare parts, extra chain, cat 1 gear ect. Although I would think a fair bit of cat one gear would still need to be added to many of the current offshore cruisers. As has been mentioned in this thread a few times, its a super easy passage from the Med to NZ. Downwind the

Exactly Mark MT or even worse not be able to sell at all. Probably around half the cruisers we have met are planning to sell in NZ or Aussie.

I think if you brought well and did the trip on a budget (and without 3 kids...) then it could be easy to go cost neutral. But for us we will be backwards by a fair bit I think. Knowing what we know now there would be a few things we would do differently but still very happy with how its gone so far. The reality is that its a very easy trip to do and as BP says its a well trodden path. We havent even tacked yet in almost 8000nm of sailing! We have met other kiwis doing it very comfortably in 100k 15 year old beneteaus and all types. I just think that anyone who is thinking about it shoul

Keen on the ST60+ Graphic display. Can you give me more info on the ST6002 controller? Is this just the screen or the computer? Both my graphic and autopilot screens are starting to play up.

Yeah but I mean anyone on here who hasnt done it before.

Has anyone else ever put much thought into doing a trip like this? Its actually pretty achievable.

Yup made it through safely and anchored in La Playita. A nice tropical downpoor to welcome us to the Pacific. Champaign flows! ROGUE'S first ever sight of the Pacific!

Yep just on our first downward lock on the Pacific side. All going well so far. Rafted to a Outreemer 49.

Muzzled, yes it's a great cruising boat and he has been cruising it solo for 6 months now. Huge cockpit, huge aft locker and plenty of room downstairs. Also a super easy to sail with no running backstays and a nice cockpit layout. The interior is basic but very functional. I think the pogo 36 would be a fair bit quicker than the sunfast but probably no where near as competitive on IRC. Each ťheir own I suppose. The pogo 1250 would be my dream boat.

I have just spent a lot of time cruising in company with a pogo 1250 in the Caribbean(actually right from the cape Verde islands off africa then grenadines to BVI). Great boats and we competed in the Heineken regatta while pretty much still in full cruising spec with cruising sails ect and cleaned up against a fleet of class 40s. Fast boats.

Well if we are talking random yachting... Finally got the atlantic crossing video online. If you want to see what its like crossing an ocean with 3 kids under 10 then have a look. We are now in the BVI and will be departing for Panama shortly after the BVI spring regatta. Won our division of the Heineken regatta in St Marten last month. Part one Part two

I had a standard led in my masthead light and it only lasted about 3 months. Started flashing randomly after about 2 months then died completely.