colinbeashelmarine.com/ usually have mooring available, you would need to pay a nominal amount. Located Elvina Bay. Then get Pink Lady water taxi to Church Point wharf where there is a bus to Woolworths.
Now I realise the main purpose of the crash helmets. After watching the races from time to time the TV coverage would switch to a boats intercom. So you can see the action and hear it. Sometimes tense messages between crew and very good for AC marketing. Get the younger generation interested by showing action versus dinosaurs 😆. I learnt some good stuff about sail trim. These boats are perfect. Anyway when sound switched to boats intercom the crew are shouting above howling noise and wind whistling. Because the boats are cruising at 35kts they are sailing in a gale all day. Hard work. Hence helmets and goggles. We are looking at sail plans that work without fail in 35kts+. Amazing.
I get where you are coming from JonE. When I first watched the crew wearing crash helmets and speeding around I thought "how ridiculous!!". But after I watched a few times I still wanted my team to win, even if in ridiculous boats, and watched much more carefully and came to actually enjoy it. The tactics were there, just different and the massive bungle if the boat slows down and gets off its foils is the equivalent of your spinnaker falling under the bow (which I have done)!
The new Seabreeze looks OK to me. My only suggestion is the forecasts should default to the next day. Not the next 7 days. I think most of us use the forecasts to check whats happening tomorrow, not what might happen in a week. ie. Tide. Time of sunrise. Wind.
I use it often too for my medical work and software development. Someone said it changes the designer from a coder (a person who writes software code) into the architect. So true. I found the trick is to keep a store of scripts to use it.
For example if you use it as a search engine and want the best blue anti foul paint to be used on a timber boat in 15 degree water in Tasmania with ingredient x% and less than y% save that text as a script. That way your results are consistent. Its easy then to reuse the question and swap out things like blue and put in black.
Some of my software scripts are a full A4 page of instructions.
