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Great photos Eric. I would love to get a high resolution copy somehow.

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Major job to change the boat to take running top mast back stays, it involves adding 2 winches to start with. Probably close to a 5K excersize for us. Not really worth it, 5k is better spent on sails! Topmast runners also make manoeuvres a fair bit more complicated when short handed.

Yeah just trying to make it easier 2 handed and loose all the weight of the furler. We have found that we use the medium jib for pretty much everything, it has a reef point in it so covers 8-30kts easily. Thie reef is by far the best way to change gears, we could reef it and then unreef it in half the time and effort of anyone elses single jib change. The reef was pretty dodgy with the foil so the soft hanks will make it safe and easy. Code zero covers the 0-7kts range OK so the light jib doesnt get used all that much offshore and we have only needed the heavy jib twice in since the boat wa

Made up a new much longer carbon prod for the Sun Fast. Prod is around 15mm think carbon with a foam core and a full length horrozontal bulkhead, we got this engineered by a mate of ours and stuck to his layup plan. Didnt vacuum bag it as we dont have technoligy like that but Dave Faulkner who made up the original blank/mold shape for us vacumed bagged that (huge thanks to Dave for his help witht he project). We had to extend the hull flange attachment an extra 150mm past the hull resess to get enough shear strength and go from 3 to 5 bolts. Decided to make up some low stretch bobstays

Thanks Mark

Forecast dependant but most likely Awen I would say.

We use Tylaskas or Mini Gibb clips. Even then we always tape them on a windy day if there is likely to be some flapping as even the best clips can come undone. The tylaskas are also good for 'martin breakers' on the tack line as you can just bowline a line straight through the hole and to the bow so when you blow the tack line the clip lets go. Its by far the best and safest way to drop a gennaker, in fact its really the only way to drop a gennaker on a bigish boat in big breeze.

As far as Auckland tides go, the thing to remember is that the 'sink hole' is actually the firth of Thames not Auckland harbour so the incoming and outgoing tide is relative to that rather than Auckland harbour itself. Therefore the current in Tamaki strait runs the oposite to what you think, ie outgoing tide has current running towards Auckland and incoming tide it runs away from Auckland.

Looks like a reasonable fleet. Is there going to be a final division list with PHRF handicaps? Seems to be a few boats in random divisions at the moment.

Once the boat is in the system its a whole bunch easier.

I thought it was every 2 years?

I have it all setup on the sun fast Stu. IT helped me to set it up. Welcome to come and have a look sometime.

I might have someone for you.

I can pretty much thank youtube for the Sun fast that I am currently campagning.

I can pretty much thank youtube for the Sun fast that I am currently campagning.

i thought shane was trying to go south not north?

The actual physical static loading are not really any higher from 20kts to 40kts. Its the flogging that ruins sails and obviously flogging is worse in bigger breeze. In fact in some cases the actual loadings are less once a boat is over powered as the sheet is eased. Mainsheet loadings and stabilty are the key figures for a sails load. Low stabilty means the sheets are eased earlier as well. The difference between a Storm dacron and a normal dacron is the finish or resin coating. Storm dacron is a softer finish which gives you better flexabilty and tear strength than a firmer finish dacron

I honestly would way perfer to have 3 decent reefs and a nice reefing system rather than doing a sail change to a trysail. Any time spent out of the cockpit is where the real trouble starts. Dropping the main, lashing it down properly then plugging in and hoisting the trisail means a fair bit of time out of the cockpit. I would consider a Trysail to be a 'spare' mainsail really in case you damage the main or boom and need to keep the boat going. Only ever hoisted one in anger 2 or 3 times over 120,000nm of ocean sailing. Cant say I have ever really thought much about emergency rudders. Th

Yes and he services Yamahas too.

2nd for Brett. Sails on duty free.

Ah yeeaahhh sorry bout that racket.

I do still have the angled end bits off one of our new boards if that's any use to you.

Sweet mate.