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16 Jul 2026 8:46pm
Omfg i want it
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10 Jul 2026 11:53am
You're in WA?

This notes these moth clubs in Perth. I'd always start at a club (for any sailing). Note it's probably too cold for them right now but you never know!

moth.asn.au/Western-Australia

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4 Jul 2026 10:23pm
Brighton to Blairgowrie race today on a mate's boat.

Proved to myself i was meant for sailing. About 4pm i was sitting there thinking "I'm cold, I'm wet, I'm hungry, I'm knackered, I'm dying for a p**s and hold on... I'm completely happy! "
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23 Jun 2026 7:52am
Johan,

What's your inboard doing/not doing? Which make model is it?

I became similarly miserable with mine last year, struggled with getting it looked at etc. In the end I pulled it apart myself and would never look back.

When I got stuck, this forum was particularly helpful.

Cheers,

jon
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21 Jun 2026 5:02pm
Kankama said..
You don't need to take both stays off.



OK I just had an "a-ha" moment! Of course you are correct - meaning only half the temporary support required. I take it you loosen everything off a bit (a lot..) first?
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20 Jun 2026 8:48pm
Gary, thanks for the quick answer. I want to remove the caps, take them to the rigger and ask him to make me new ones the same. Then the D1s and D2s.
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20 Jun 2026 9:12am
Ok first up, i want to ask about DIY replacement of shrouds, stays on a 36 footer.

2 spreader boat, swept. Keel stepped.

I am proposing to use a professional rigger to supply and terminate the components.

I'm happy setting the rig up myself, actually I would prefer to.

Has anyone done this? Is it safe to go up the mast on the main+spin halyard with the rig only held at the partners and D1s? How did you do it?
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19 Jun 2026 7:44pm
shaggybaxter said..
Pete Goss "Close to the Wind" is still an all time favourite!



Does he mention the french guy pulling a bottle of champagne out of his foulies after 3 days on an upturned hull?
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17 Jun 2026 11:45am
Ballpark.

Note it's not about the value of the vessel. Have a look at the other threads where costs for recovery are quoted. Cost of re-float and removal is probably way more than 23K.
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14 Jun 2026 9:41am
Obviously switch sym and asym in paragraph headings above!🫢
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13 Jun 2026 2:44pm
Magnesium? Do you mean asymetric pole or symetric?

Symetric: Other than the expense (more loa means more marina fees or more expensive telescopic setup). you can get a test certificate in ORC that will tell you the answer. Otherwise i think longer means deeper = better if your boat planes)

Asymetric - as Gary says, the disadvantages outside the rating system probably make the rating question moot.

Gybe your current spinnaker in a breeze then decide if you want to reach further out to get the brace in the jaws. You will have seen photos of race bowmen shimmying out on the pole.

your mast will have a track that only goes so high on which the pole is clipped. At some point the mast-end will be as high as it goes and your pole-end will be where it is.

Then there's sail set. Your pole will probably be sized for the mast height and boat size. So if you increased your pole length you will need bigger kites cut, and they will have a less vertical luff, remembering that the overall shape of the luff (sideways from top to bottom) affects the shape of the belly.

Then there's what happens when you go too deep and the pole and kite come round to windward.. a longer pole would make this worse. Google Farr 40 chinese gybe. Spoiler alert, it was the sheet-mans fault for losing concentration and dumping the sheet.

Both these videos below are excellent.

I ran the kite on a mates boat in a coastal race recently. Spent the whole day downwind tuning the kite. As much as it would have been nice to go a fraction deeper, or fly the jib, when we gybed it in 15 knots I wasn't wishing for a longer pole.



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9 Jun 2026 9:58pm
Is that your gin palace?
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9 Jun 2026 1:54pm
MorningBird said..

r13 said..


MorningBird said..
Personally I can’t see the use for it. It isn’t something I’d rely on for navigation. A chart plotter and depth sounder is the standard. I also used a physical chart when sailing offshore. I’d plot a position each watch so that if I lost electronics or gps I’d know a start point for DR nav.





Interesting. So obviously you've never club raced in Botany Bay, Kogarah Bay or Port Hacking. The shifting sands of time. James Cook went north to the harbour from Stingray Bay for a very good reason - and then had to safely navigate the Sow and Pigs to get to Farm Cove - and back out. Of course there are many dredging projects underway now or on the to-do list. Seems like the list here doesn't include Port Hacking which kicked off in 2023 . So getting out of the moorings in Kogarah Bay needs steering to the east side of the bay - as far east as you can but don't run into the new marina extension which has stolen a large area of valuable sailing ground............get out east of the Captain Cook bridge and sail down the river to try and get out into the bay proper inside the many channel markers - good luck. Club racers well know where shifted sand bars are now, also exposing rock shelves, well inside the channel markers. Gently nudge a sandbar of depth 25-50mm less than your draft at low speed might be ok - hitting it or a rock shelf at 10kts plus coming back down the channel to finish the race in Kogarah Bay - forget it - don't do it. So what is the minimum low tide (max yearly low tide) depth that should be between channel markers in similar navigable waters? As in a straight line between all channel markers? If your answer is not greater than 2.5m then please advise the reason for your answer. www.transport.nsw.gov.au/projects/current-projects/dredging-projects



I missed he wanted to race in Botany Bay. Silly me. I read it as he wanted to go offshore into the ocean.


He shouldn't have gone to Hawai'i that's for certain.
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7 Jun 2026 11:16pm
OK, we're having a splicing comp.

I'm going to order some new reefing line (might have cut my other one in a mid-race tantrum)...


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6 Jun 2026 11:54am
Compulsory insurance would have an interesting effect on the used market.

12 months notice to get your **** together then the state government comes along and pulls out all the old rotting hulks and cuts them up, bit like the brumbys.

1. Imagine how many mooring spots would get freed up for active boaters.

2. Market would start to reflect the real value of the boats - i.e. all these inflated prices for boats that need 50K to make them seaworthy.

3. Create some demand for shipwrights.

4. People learn to maintain their boats, like doing their own rigging, fixing motors etc etc.

If boats are unseaworthy they either a. Cannot be used (so why keep them) or b. Get used anyway and people die, including third parties.
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4 Jun 2026 10:08pm
Your posts and questions are welcome, many of us started at this point.

The problem is that boats are an endless pit. For both time and money.


Read Kankama's excellent post in the other thread. It is highly unusual for anyone to post actual real world numbers for disposing of boats but you have the actual numbers right there. Disposal can be upwards of 30 grand.


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4 Jun 2026 4:35pm
Have you read any of the other threads on here about what's happening when people buy uninsurable unseaworthy boats, stick a motor on the back and try to move them on?

If you're lucky, no-one will get killed.
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3 Jun 2026 8:16pm
Planter said..
? Something for Nothing ?
www.gumtree.com.au/web/listing/sail-boats/1341974396


It says it's "Blue Water".... I want one.
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1 Jun 2026 3:58pm
Jake - you're seeing the same as me. My echart appears to have a defined size (my bad, diameter not radius).

I just cannot find that written down anywhere official.

Does anyone have a copy of NP14? Is it in there?
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1 Jun 2026 12:38pm
OK confused. There is a Pilot Boarding Ground defined South-West of Point Lonsdale.

There is a nice circle around the mark on the chart on my OpenCPN chart (Up to date AusENC) and on the paper Chart 143 I have there's the diamond in a circle.

I've been through the chart notes and the harbour masters directions etc and whilst I can find references to the Precautionary Area and the centre thereof I cannot find any official reference to the size of the Precautionary Area.

Does anyone know where this is? Does everyone "just know" it's about 3 miles radius?
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30 May 2026 6:04pm
Oh Gary, post of the month!
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30 May 2026 5:57pm
Thanks lads.

Interesting you raise the B&G. I was racing on a boat with B&G with built in ais (tx and rx) last weekend. It appeared to be somewhat unreliable - my pet theory being that when there were too many unacknowledged targets the AIS shat the bed until the unit was power-cycled.

I wonder if the right thing to do is to have one more go at getting GPS into my iCom and get one of those $500 standalone ais units.




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28 May 2026 11:03am
Time for this thread to disappear....
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27 May 2026 6:01pm
I'm going to treat myself to a new VHF set when I pass the LROCP. I can't get position into my current Icom for DSC alerting and I'd like AIS reception in the same box for MOB1 recovery.

What do you have? What would you buy (again).
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24 May 2026 9:57am
Dinghy sailing in the UK, Chicken Gybe, is the method by which members of both genders avoid gybing in conditions where a swim would end the fun and send participants back to the clubhouse for an early shower.


Such conditions include, but are not limited to very cold water, 30 knots of breeze, inexperienced crew.....

I cannot imagine a quick tack and bear-away in a Finn or any other boat being slower than a swim.....


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Yeah got to point 4, that was enough. It would be good if we had a repository of these, maybe Laurie could do a safety section.

Been a while since you posted, have you been sailing?