khayyam
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Totally agree. I love sailing. I love racing. But would I be keen for my kids to get into the jnr racing scene as it currently is? Nah.
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ah. sorry. yes, great plan!
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don't follow. leave AKL thursday afternoon. when are you imagining arriving in TGA, with a Friday midday start?
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that'll buff out?
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so.... you have to have an engine that can actually move the boat at a decent speed, and enough fuel to use said engine to get out of trouble. sounds onerous!
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second that. they just let me have a rummage through the offcuts when I need a little bit.
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russell and paihia, without going quite all the way in to opua
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There was a similar boat anchored in very close to castor bay a few days ago. Inside the swim platform. Must have been so nearly beached.
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milford marina is still cheap, isn't it? surely their costs aren't that different. just a lot less demand for shallow draft, tidal access.
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yeah 12m mutlihull stern-to seems a (relative) steal. half the alongside rate, and similar to the piles.
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would be nice to see. didn't seem like there were hardly any smaller boats in the most recent edition.
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onetangi fractionally closer i guess.
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There are loads of less serious races where the kids would be welcome. I remember racing in DYC series where one of the other boats fell badly off the wind for a while on beat. Thought maybe they'd broken something. Talking to them later, they'd had to stop and make sandwiches for the kids...
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pine harbour? unless you want to go back to matiatia. or maybe orapiu?
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seems extremely unlikely that abandoned boats have current insurance
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Very informative Elenya. Thanks. There are a lot of boats whose market value is well below their cost to scrap, then.
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to answer my own question: it was fabulous. just a little easterly swell outside, perfectly calm inside. and a fabulous spot. 'twas a family cruise so was definitely looking for good/perfect rather than acceptable, and it was.
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Can anyone comment on whangamumu in SW with easterly swell? e.g. forecast for +3 days from now. Obviously the SW part is good, just wondering if you'd expect the swell to come in and have you rolling around.
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+1 for Bill Endean's Classic New Zealand Yachts. Lots of good information on older designs. Not that easy to find, but iirc the library had a copy. https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Classic-New-Zealand-Yachts-Four-Decades/16797217621/bd
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also http://crew.org.nz/forum/index.php/topic/10656-marlbrough-sounds-to-boi-advice/ http://crew.org.nz/forum/index.php/topic/7637-voyage-down-east-coast-nth-island/
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looks great. now where did i put that spare half mil? not being able to go on a 12m berth would be a little unfortunate in akl i'd think
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Yes tidal volume approx 500 ml. You'd have to work out the volume of your tube, but of course a skinny little one isn't going to be easy to breathe through either!
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i'd be interested to hear. looks like a lot of bad options.
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there's an old thread somewhere. i seem to recall the west coast getting more votes.
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i doubt it's worthwhile in that pricerange and in the current market. given duty and gst, you'd be looking at plus, you can get a whole lot of boat here at the moment as prices seem to have dipped significantly.
