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No warning but I figured something had to come down this way when i saw that Fiji had some effects too. I heard the current from the first one at about 11pm from the house then sat on the wharf until 3am watching. was also talking to friends about 12.30am who had evacuated their boat at tutukaka. Pretty strange that there were no warnings especially after the Tutukaka wave did so much damage.

Some freaky stuff on the weiti river last night too. At least a 0.5m surge (properly measured on my tide level gauge) and some strong currents. At least 5 surge cycles. I sat on the end of the wharf until 3am watching it all. No damage anywhere here that i can see.

Quite fresh and a few hours of rain here at kawau.

ETA kawau at about 5am tomorrow morning. Is bon accord ok in the SW right now? We are just past Tutukaka on our way south.

I would say about a normal amount of boats up north. In whangaroa now and managed to fit a 5 boat raft up in lane cove even with our late 4pm arrival so its certainly not jam packed. About 8 or 10 boats with us last night at the Cavallis. Not much wind up here the last week we have been out but amazingly clear water. snorkeled the rainbow warrior this morning. 22m of water and could see it clearly.

Certainly a tough start to it with 25-30kt headwinds.

Does the ram need to be attached every time you use it rather than being able to be left on?

I'm not sure where how I would attach it to my X5. I will do some investigation.

I know what you are talking about. I just went through the same thing helping a mate sort his one out. He unplugged the gyro and it was usable but no where near as good as it used to be and we have since put another whole computer in his one with a working gyro. I don't believe my one works the same but maybe?

Very similar to that BP but a later model.

So im still having problems with my Autopilot. Its like its just not using the full extent of the tiller drive and not enought to correct the course. There is no rudder reference unit as its designed to work without one and there is no easy way to fit one. The display can show a rudder bar which is just what rudder the computer is thinking it is applying but this just seems to not equate to what the tiller drive is properly doing. It will give quite a bit of rudder initially for a course change, then back to near centre before the boat is on course, the display is showing that it is

LOL you are actually pretty close, I did buy it from bunnings.... Its the alloy box section with the joining pieces, actually pretty strong but needed a bit of diagonal support. Should do the job Ok and was pretty cheap but I will look at upgrading it for next summer. Sorry for the thread drift, lets get back to everyones summer holiday plans!

Its black and its light, and easily removable for racing.....

Hey Pete, would be great to see you guys. Hoping to get up there by Christmas day but will see how the weather looks as we dont knock off until the 23rd. Rogue II looks s little different now but if you see us then come over.

Where did you anchor and what depths and current were there in the main chanel? We sussed it out on a road trip last year and planned to go their last christmas but the weather didnt cooperate so we only made it as far as matai bay. Wanted to try it again this year.

Im now all sorted with a second hand X5 Autopilot computer on its way today. This will fit straight in and replace my old water damaged one. Life saver for my christmas cruise. Thanks Guys. The power of crew.org.

Yup all the way if weather allows. Last year we only made it as far as Matai bay.

Heading north on the 23rd. Aim to make it all the way to the top if we can. Probably Whangaroa for new years.

Yup I do, I will give him a call.

My Raymarine Autopilot course computer has failed and im looking for a X5 or X10 course computer to replace it. If anyone is looking to upgrade their old one or knows of one that might be available then let me know. Any course computer thats compatable with ST60 and an ST4000 Tiller drive would work but it has to be one that doesnt need a rudder sensor.

Yeah I have been talking to him about various other bits recently while trying to get my autopilot working. I actually just brought a secondhand raymarine S3G complete autopilot with an older sun damaged St8001 control to replace my faulty SPX5 computer but then realised that it doesnt work without the rudder sensor which is a bit hard for me to fit with just the cockpit mounted tiller drive.... fail But lucklily it will fit in my father in laws 42ft trawler style launch to upgrade his old one that came straight of noahs ark so that controler is perfect. On that note, anyone got an o

Hey BK, sorry for the delay getting back to you. I will grab it if it's still available.

Yeah been watching that too.

I actually have a delta sailing dinghy sitting up in Opua too. Left it up there with my parents so when the grandkids go to stay for the school holidays they have another dinghy to play in. But sadly they didnt get up there this school holidays... Great little dinghys, a bit small for me and all the kids but we now have a sunburst at home instead.

I noticed that too and wondered what it was. Looked like a cockpit drain or something. Surely thats going to suck air into the system causing overheating.