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You might need to tighten/shorten the luff cable. If the cable is set too loose you get that real whip loading but if the cable is taking the load then the luff should just hang off the cable and luff more like a headsail attached to a forestay. You should be able to adjust the cable length either at the tack or head with a lashing. They often require a fair bit of adjusting to get set just right. If in doubt make the cable shorter that you think.

Agree with clipper, the penalty made no difference at all in that race. Has it even been confirmed that there was a penalty? The boys are showing some great pace in the lighter airs!

Yes Ken that's exactly what was discussed.

Laser sails are both gone sorry. In fact most of its gone now and my rum cupboard is well stocked! Still got a few more kite bags and genoa bags left.

yeah sounds good. Bill wants the Jib top by the way.

Hi Eric, yeah sure. What time are you thinking. Sorry just realised I forgot to reply to your PM last week. Stack pack and mesh are gone now too. Wifey will be happy!

Feel free to call me if you have any questions about any of it. 0212222143

Got some more stuff I need to get rid of... 30+ meters of fablock style mesh. Basically in New condition. Come and grab all of it or as much as you need. I have no use for it so just make an offer or just bring rum. Assorted sail bags. Some long Genoa zip bags in good condition and a few spinnaker square bags. (Rum) New 3.8m black boom cover. (offers) New 5m dark blue stack pack. Needs battens. (offers) Old Kevlar jib top with luff foil and UV. luff 14.5m. (Free) 2 old laser sails in ok condition (rum) Various ropes some real decent bits of used spectra halyards ect

Not sure if I ever put our RNI video up here. Its long- more of as documentary really but gives a good idea of the whole race and the conditions.

We did offer to help them with a story and they said they were writing a price on ssanz and the RNI and didnt need anything so we left it at that. SSANZ article was great but I must say the RNI feature could have been a lot more detailed. I am guessing it was a bit of a marketing thing. Other than answering a few questions I didn't have much to do with it.

Yup I agree Kevin is as good as it gets.

For the first time in at least a decade I missed out on competing! About 3 weeks ago Damon and I had 2 boats to choose from, the Sunfast and Motorboat but they both sold the week before the race! So we decided to jump on the committee boat and help out (hinder) on the committee side of things for a change. It was a real push to get this race sorted straight after the round north island and guys like Jon Henry to name one, really have put in a huge effort. A volunteer that has pretty much been full time running yachting events so far this year. Anyway it sure was another epic weekend. The

About 1.6m wide I think, transoms probably extend around 400mm at a guess.

I have an Aquapro 1001 (3.1m) that I no longer need. Great dinghy but I cant take it with me to Europe. Its in pretty good condition, no airleaks or anything. Probably a bit big for you to put on the fordeck, it was even a bit to big for the fordeck on the Sun Fast 3600. We towed it everywhere and only chucked it on the fordeck for the long or roughweather trips. Weighs 55kg but is easy to get up the beach with wheels even with a 5hp yamaha (which I also have available) on the back. $750 ono

What ever is easiest for you Eric. I don't go to new market often so next time you are coming to westhaven let me know and I will arrange to meet you somewhere.

I would love to read that book Eric. We will be doing French Polynesia next season on our way back from Europe.

We went in there a few times when I was a kid going up and down the Wairarapa coast.I remember it being a pretty cool place to visit but is a natural wind funnel so be careful. Shane Im sure you have seen the weather that is coming? Make sure you get somewhere sheltered and be safe.

Yeah we were going to get the Iridium Go for the offshore stuff and run it with predict wind offshore for the routing as well as using Expedition. I didnt think you could actually go online with the iridium Go to find email addresses and phone numbers for the marinas Jon? or is it actually OK for that or did you just in note all the contact details down when you were in Wifi coverage?

Yeah I have heard that many of the overseas providers make NZ look like a ripoff. A new sim card in every country is fine but for places like Europe and the Caribbean where we could be going between countries every week it might get painful... Sometimes its really nice to have a Data conection before you make landfall but thats going to be pretty pricey I imagine....

Just trying to think about the best way to keep some comms going for our sailing trip from Europe to NZ. Vodafone does a good $5 per day roaming for 23 countries but we plan to visit loads of places that are not on the list so keeping that account going is probably not practical or economical. Anyone got any good idea for the best plan of attack here. Im guessing buying prepaid sim cards at various location is probably the best deal. Will my Samsung Galaxy S7 take sim cards from any country/network? What about google Fi? anyone tried that?

Good topic, and a question we have been asking as well. With our planned trip from Europe to NZ we will (hopefully) have a watermaker. I dont want to be chasing water sources around the world.... Most of the boats we are looking at already have them installed. Most likely we will need to replace the membrane but thats a pretty small cost in the grand sceme of things and substantially cheaper than buying and installing a watermaker. Our prirority is watermaker and solar power, I think thats probably really all we need.

Noelex 25s are great little boats but I have seen one capsize and sink right in front of me in Wellington harbour so you do need to be careful. Also a side note, You mention a big RIB inflatable and outboard. What do you plan to do with this for the passages. Often towing is not a good option especially downwind.

Yes spot on Mark. I can confirm those dates are correct.

Yeah no problem. Come grab it amytime. I think you have been around here before to grab that kite pole so you know where we are?The big alloy tube is what I used as a temporary main beam on the GBE to hold up the outboard pod up when it was on the mooring while I was making the new beam. Could be useful for you if further down the track?

Will try and get a picture for you. It's all packed up right now but I will be having more of a clean up shortly. Currently just ripping the old kitchen out... New one going in before the house goes on the market.