ex TL systems

Should be fine if you freeze a plastic milk bottle half full with the lid off it won’t burst. The ice tends to push up in the centre.

Yes buy some diesels and I will buythose Yamaha s because they are the best outboard motors for pushing a cat.

First flight

I bought one about a month ago and have had 3 goes so far. Towing behind a boat is not that hard and it lifts up at about 8 knots. Catching waves I have lifted up each time but don’t have much control yet. It feels a bit scary flying above the water. With the right conditions somebody could fly out to the barrier on wind chop. They make them with electric motors too.

Depending on your boat we went into the estuary where its totally sheltered but shallow and dries at low tide.

We spent 3 month there in 1984 plenty of boats around even then but lots of nice spots too with warm water and great weather in winter

Had a friend park a cat up on springtide then jacked it vertically 3 ft up on blocks, and worked on it for 6 months there. Sometimes everything is ok until someone complains and then a council officer visits and gives you 24 hrs to move.think the complaints would be pretty quick if you chose to park on takapuna beach .

You might find some suitable ss at your local scrap metal place, got to be a lot better than those rusty old bits. Might be something at that boat parts place by the basin too.

John Tetzlaff at. Silverdale

Those 3 way fridges were never good to run on batteries, ok on gas , 240 or while motoring like driving a camper van, but very inefficient on batteries. They have a rating of how much propane weight they will use per hour, but our use was 9 kg per month while living aboard both before and after getting the fridge which we ran constant on gas. They also need to be kept level so not good on keelers when sailing. The 12 v compressor fridges have never given us any trouble and seem to be good value for money.

We bought a Garmin in reach for work in case we are out of signal range and in trouble I think the plan is only about 20$ ? A month to keep it ready to go , a few free texts and free emergency operation, much cheaper than the sat phone per month and it has maps and tracking built in. The emergency call goes to some overseas agency who will contact the appropriate people but you can also program in any email, or cell phones numbers you want. Apparently you can also get weather on it. I have an earlier model that pairs up to a smart phone for use, only $120 secondhand, but not as straightforw

That’s the problem if you only have an epirb you can’t send a message to say something has happened but we are ok it might take us a few weeks to sort it but we don’t need a search party just yet. Once you push the epirb you normally would be leaving the boat behind when someone comes to get you. Garmin Inreach has text communication with the outside world as well as a panic button which when pushed the authorities will attempt to contact you to see what you need.About 700 new.

I had the same model as Bruce but foam hulls which I sailed up from New Plymouth to Auckland sailed really well but not much space

Thanks that’s what I thought

Just checking I’ve got this right I have 2 seperate batteries not suitable to permanently parallel as one deep cycle and one crank. But if I connect the 2 negatives together and then have a wire to connect the positives which I will only do if say the house is down but the crank which is only for the anchor winch is full and I want to transfer some of its amps across to the deep cycle house battery. Is that okay or is it better to not have the negatives permanently connected either. And just use jump leads to temporarily parallel them.

I have a lightly used Volvo curved 3 blade folding that was on a 30 hp yanmar available to sell.

Unsealed timber or ply especially around windows will be pretty wet at this time of year on a boat with condensation likely running down the windows most mornings

There was a rumour which I think I may have started that it could have been bought for a dollar, as long as you didn’t take the many tonnes of lead with it, but I also heard it cost around 20 k just to move it 100m out of the shed, breaking it up and dumping would have also cost a lot. Last time I looked the mast was still there, all shiny white paint and not sure what underneath?

Most likely outcome is setup on some land as a Bach or air bandb , but even moving it will be expensive.

102 ft super yacht glass hull that was sitting outside the now closed Fitzroy yachts ended up broken up by a digger and taken to the dump.

Think there’s a new mast that would be big enough for that boat sitting in New Plymouth

As well as getting the rig checked I plan to put up two external mast head halyards and tie them out as backup stays. That and sail conservatively should help in keeping the rig up.

I was supposed to be going soon but still waiting for a small op on my leg so might try to go up in September and back in October just to try the pineapples out.

I have an 18 year old rig i want to get professionally checked before deciding whether to replace it. It still looks like new to me but dropping the mast at sea might mean losing the boat

Yes I definitely wouldn’t have any main up in strong downwind conditions, the main wants to push the boat around plus there is the danger of a crash gybe, a little bit of headsail is much easier steering and safer pulling the boat from the front not pushing , plus easier to get rid of if you need to. I was sailing Tl systems solo to barrier when the sw picked up to around 25 to 30 and my boat speed was 23 kts, I took the opportunity in the shelter behind little barrier to round up and drop the main altogether and carried on at a relaxed 12 knots with the furling Genoa knowing that I would easi