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Shemara: October 2009
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Monday, October 26, 2009. Reasons to be cheerful. Part 3. Some pics from the weekend sailing with the Sponsor and Ben the Belgian. As you can see there was bugger all wind and at times we had to start the auxiliary engine (see bottom pic). Thursday, October 15, 2009. Blow it up man. A story about Roydon Thomas from NZ Skipper magazine 2007. Http:/ www.skipper.co.nz/S59%20WEB/S59%20Hautapu%20Sinking%20p25.pdf. HAUTAPU SINKING MAY BE SOLVED. September/October 2007 Professional Skipper p25. Arrived early on...
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Shemara: Slow boat regatta
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Saturday, May 15, 2010. Organised by the crew of. About six yachts joined in a race for the slow boats, followed by a barbie. These photos were taken by one of their crew. We followed up with a barbie at Milan's shed. Photos: Milan getting his new spinnaker pole sorted for. Mike trying to thread. A masthead jib halyard for. Milling around the start line are. A tow out) and. In full flight ;. At Somes Island ; BBQ scenes (plus Mike and Craig looking like they're coming to trade for muskets).
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Shemara: February 2010
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010. The great thing about bronze is that you can bury it in the ground, leave it at the bottom of the sea, or in the open air, come back after 3000 years and it is as good as new. Museums are full of it. Anyway, here is an old rod of bronze (of course not. That I made a thread on. It will hold the spinnaker pole cup to the mast. There are the headsail tracks and jarrah handrails cleaned of paint and on their way to being. I've also started scraping away paint that needs to be redo.
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Shemara: November 2009
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Monday, November 23, 2009. Reasons to be cheerful. Part 3 (part 2). These are pics from when we took Belgian Ben out. He didn't like it that the spinnaker looks like a Dutch flag! Saturday, November 7, 2009. The sponsor and I took Ben out last night. The course was to take us into the channel where strangely there was no wind so, rather than bobbing aroung in the dark with neither motor nor nav lights waiting for a ferry to bump into us we stayed with the breeze inshore and came home early. Shemara is ol...
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Shemara: From the RPNYC archive
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011. From the RPNYC archive. Thought I'd just pop this one in. I found it yesterday in the club archive. No date, but would guess the 60s some time. Click the photo to get a larger version. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). LOA 23’ 6”. LWL 18’ 5”. Beam 7’ 5”. Draft 4’ 0”. Displacement 2.5 Tons. Working Sail Area 275 Sq Feet. Hull material: 1” NZ Kauri carvel on Jarrah. Mast and Spars: Douglas Fir (known in NZ as “Oregon”). Date and place built: Wellington, New Zealand. 1958.
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Shemara: March 2010
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Let there be light. I've got some nav lights now, all wired up and they go! I got the LED ones, which are super bright, and they run off a twelve volt rechargeable battery. I knocked up a little box for the battery from marine ply, which is hidden well forward; and I put in a bakelite light switch, which is the sum of my electronics board. Wiring works, but I'll not bother to get it tidy till I've decided how to fit out the interior. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Let there be light.
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Shemara: Little rot pocket
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012. Made an accidental hole in the deck a couple of days ago between the transom and the mainsheet traveller, revealing some rot. The deck is Douglas fir ply. Imported cars years ago used to come in big containers made of the stuff, and many decks in Wellington as well as ply-built boats are made from the stuff. The transom is two inches thick and still in perfect condition. Photos here show the hole, and where me and my mate Ben cut it back to clean wood. LOA 23’ 6”.
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Shemara: May 2010
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Monday, May 17, 2010. More from the slow boats regatta. These were taken on board Shemara. Really must do something about that jib halyard tension! The yellow and white kite is an asymmetrical spinnaker. It works OK but really needs a spar two or three feet longer (to work with the regular jib still up). We tried the other symmetrical kkite which is great, but didn't get any pics of it up. You can see it drying out a the bottom. Also here is Sean in action with his funny way of rowing backwards. Shemara ...
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Shemara: September 2009
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Thursday, September 17, 2009. Mast is back up finally! It's rather silly, considering that epoxies are just as, if not more, poisonous. Anyway, now she looks a little more like a boat. Trouble with the starboard backstay though: The pin that attaches is to the mast cap is stiff, and I have to go up and bang it back into alignment. What a pain. Still, the rigging fits very well. Croft carriers who I hired the hiab from are great. Quickly and effiently done, and they only charged $40. LOA 23’ 6”.
