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Forum: Monohull Sailboats 16-04-2021, 17:31
Replies: 102
Views: 11,942
Posted By Yoty
Re: New sailor looking for boat in Australia/NZ

He said the yacht was less than the price of a new car.
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 16-04-2021, 16:31
Replies: 102
Views: 11,942
Posted By Yoty
Re: New sailor looking for boat in Australia/NZ

Hi Justin, park up with a cubba and watch how Free Range Sailing did an Oz circumnavigation in a 30 foot Clansman.
Lot of costs slowly upgrading a tiny home, most homes, actually!
Forum: General Sailing Forum 23-06-2020, 04:25
Replies: 25
Views: 6,716
Posted By Yoty
Re: Electric Outboard Theft Appeal

International kiwi, Peter Blake killed in third wold country by unemployed thieves with guns.
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 15-02-2020, 15:51
Replies: 49
Views: 11,274
Posted By Yoty
Re: Mast paint yes/no?

A sanded aluminium surface re-oxidises in a millionth of a second.
When glueing or painting, sand it on to the Al surface.
Forum: Propellers & Drive Systems 31-01-2020, 13:31
Replies: 7
Views: 3,213
Posted By Yoty
Re: Sail drive paint flaking

Aluminium surface oxidizes in a millionth of a second. Sand, using your primer paint to re-etch the surface and ensure a 100% bond.
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 20-01-2020, 21:25
Replies: 232
Views: 27,421
Posted By Yoty
Re: Anchors, Guns and Strippers!!!!

"How can you be too securely anchored?", asked Woodland Falls, earlier.
Elderly couple (70's) seated in their pretty 26-ish footer ketch, opua, NZ.
Two anchors up forrard, Primary, Secondary, both...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 25-12-2019, 16:08
Replies: 27
Views: 4,349
Posted By Yoty
Re: Climbing a mast from another boat

Tie your boat to the marina, walk the main halyard to the adjacent pontoon, haul the mast top to you, the hull will rotate, totally doable, feet stay on terra firma.
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 09-11-2019, 12:08
Replies: 54
Views: 8,593
Posted By Yoty
Re: Hawaii to West Coast in Jan?

Perfect planing prevents piss poor performance.
We set forth from The Sounds to Wellington, forecast 25kts western Straits. 25 miles to sail. A doddle in summer.
Night crossing, wind rose to 40+...
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 09-08-2019, 18:09
Replies: 425
Views: 56,269
Posted By Yoty
Re: Preventer Rigging -- Lessons from the Platino Disaster

"Perfect Planning Prevents P..s Poor Performance".
Tattoo on eyeballs ! 6P's.
No PLAN, regardless of sea miles etc, is planning to fail.
Sadly, the best experience/brains trust on board had their...
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 02-02-2019, 19:57
Replies: 21
Views: 4,486
Posted By Yoty
Re: What is this large pin at the gooseneck?

Knew one from the time of child to boy to man. Awful contraption !
However, a classic contraption. One on our yacht; retired.
When sailing and a slab required, we lowered the main and boom end to a...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 16-09-2018, 03:06
Replies: 76
Views: 14,593
Posted By Yoty
Re: Aground: Failure of skill, failure of judgment, bad luck

Yeah Nevis, ya did !
Yonks ago, I saw a pretty little ketch at Opoua.Elderly couple.
Pardey-ish length. There were 5 anchors on deck ready to be used.
My kinda yoties. The little pram dink on the...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 25-07-2018, 21:00
Replies: 69
Views: 11,535
Posted By Yoty
Re: Ferocement crack - fixable or the boat trash?

The kids '[to be] jungle gym yacht, on the farm' came through a Reg. NZ Club.
I believe it meet the Club's "..be rid of it', criteria.
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 21-07-2018, 19:14
Replies: 69
Views: 11,535
Posted By Yoty
Re: Ferocement crack - fixable or the boat trash?

Youngsters jumped for joy when they knew a konkrete yacht was coming to the farm as a jungle gym. Everything present.
Excavate a hole, boat in, job done. Details taken of.
Timid mums decided...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 19-07-2018, 20:09
Replies: 89
Views: 13,001
Posted By Yoty
Re: To tether or not, that is the question

STOP THE BOAT !!
Weathervane the Main. Jib to windward, rudder to leeward.
Attach one's longer line, swim aft, release the transom hard ladder, get aboard.
A train stops, a plane stops, the boat...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 28-06-2018, 03:41
Replies: 97
Views: 24,821
Posted By Yoty
Re: 45-50 ft. Bluewater with a bright interior?

If I may address the "learning to sail", first.
How many of us started with a centreboarder ?
Lot of safe mistakes made at a time when we repeat, repeat, repeat and understand with depth and...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 25-06-2018, 02:22
Replies: 97
Views: 24,821
Posted By Yoty
Re: 45-50 ft. Bluewater with a bright interior?

I concur, although shelter from the elements, if in the cockpit is welcome.
Hard shelter means coffee without ocean in it.
Think Roaring 40's.
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 24-06-2018, 22:29
Replies: 97
Views: 24,821
Posted By Yoty
Re: 45-50 ft. Bluewater with a bright interior?

The designs are a moving feast. Love the voluminous interiors.
Deep hull sides give so much agreeable down below space.
So, to have a happy Wisdom Invited For Ever*, which yacht for you ? [* WIFE] ...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 24-06-2018, 21:39
Replies: 97
Views: 24,821
Posted By Yoty
Re: 45-50 ft. Bluewater with a bright interior?

Yeessssss..how offshore capable is she ? More data needed.
She's a trend setter. Classy apartment living on the water.
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 24-06-2018, 19:46
Replies: 97
Views: 24,821
Posted By Yoty
Re: 45-50 ft. Bluewater with a bright interior?

Your bracketed ending is so true !
Wimmin luv painting timber white.
The 490 interior has come a long way from the coal box in the stern.
Her layout is well thought through.
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 24-06-2018, 16:34
Replies: 97
Views: 24,821
Posted By Yoty
Re: 45-50 ft. Bluewater with a bright interior?

NZ Bruce Farr yachts have white interiors.
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 15-07-2017, 13:45
Replies: 16
Views: 4,699
Posted By Yoty
Re: Zippered jib cover instead of Sunbrella UV overlay.

I drop my jib into a bag tethered to the stanchions on the port side. Flaking it or drop n stuff it in works perfectly. The bag has lifevest clips to close it securely and a velcroed lengthwise flap...
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 03-06-2017, 16:25
Replies: 15
Views: 4,846
Posted By Yoty
Re: Compass 38 hp requirements

Our old salts at the bar reckon take your age, double it and there's your horsepower requirement. I'm old enough to consider it.
My 3 Mtr Hal Wagstaff Moth won't like 76 hp sitting amidships.
I...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 17-04-2017, 16:11
Replies: 10
Views: 4,205
Posted By Yoty
Re: Deep Draft for the South Pacific

Majando; 40' trimaran was a tennis court at anchor. Tacking into a strong Wellington Heads northerly with next to no draft was the hardest job I've done. Brain fogged whether it was 180 tacks in 16...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 13-11-2016, 17:40
Replies: 258
Views: 44,434
Posted By Yoty
Re: Is a furling main safe when singlehanding?

The "gentle zephyrs" we have in Wellington and Cook Strait call for keeping the mast up at all costs.
To that end, twin forestays and backstays are the order of the day.
A heads'l hanked to the...
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