Select to expand quoteSandS said..Ramona said..
Headed down South this morning to do some fishing. Quick trip down with some current! Half a knot here but a mile or so East 1 knot down and on the shelf 2.5 knots down! Heading home I kept inside two miles but the current was very annoying. Put in a heap of tacks and it was quite a struggle then had the breeze disappear altogether. Flashed up the iron topsail for the last two miles.
wow that is a very busy cabin top ramona !! 18 !!!
I thought all my controls had nearly all been brought back to the cockpit . And we have only ... one main halyard , two jib halyards one kite halyard, one pole topping lift, one main topping lift, two reefs ,one kicker . I thought we where missing only the boom vang and Cunningham, third reef and outhaul . still only 13 including the 4 we don't have on the cabin top .
what are the other 5 ? one more kite halyard ? what else ?
Two headsail halyards, two spinnaker halyards, two pole topping lifts, main topping lift, lazy jack tension line, three reefing lines for the tack and three for the clew, outhaul, boomvang, cunningham eye, and on the far right of the picture is the tack line for the cruising chute. Dropping the chute I just let the tack off and drag the chute into the cockpit[usually]!
The traveler is fine for a headsail driven yacht. By the time I have eased the traveler to it's limit it's time for the first reef.
Gave my "new" downwind headsail a test run today. I have a few really good dacron Finn sails about the place. I had initially intended to sew the foot of two sails together and make a high clew headsail but after fooling about in the backyard decided to use one first up. The luff and foot are shock cord and with some halyard tension the sail stretches out in a nice shape. I simply sewed a long tack with a cord up to the Cunningham eye. Filled in the window. Rust stains spoil it a bit but it will only be flown well offshore.
Select to expand quoteRamona said..
Gave my "new" downwind headsail a test run today. I have a few really good dacron Finn sails about the place. I had initially intended to sew the foot of two sails together and make a high clew headsail but after fooling about in the backyard decided to use one first up. The luff and foot are shock cord and with some halyard tension the sail stretches out in a nice shape. I simply sewed a long tack with a cord up to the Cunningham eye. Filled in the window. Rust stains spoil it a bit but it will only be flown well offshore.
will you drop the main with the twins on
Select to expand quoteboty said..Ramona said..
Gave my "new" downwind headsail a test run today. I have a few really good dacron Finn sails about the place. I had initially intended to sew the foot of two sails together and make a high clew headsail but after fooling about in the backyard decided to use one first up. The luff and foot are shock cord and with some halyard tension the sail stretches out in a nice shape. I simply sewed a long tack with a cord up to the Cunningham eye. Filled in the window. Rust stains spoil it a bit but it will only be flown well offshore.
will you drop the main with the twins on
I would in a decent breeze. I think it would work well also in light breezes broad reaching and deeper with the pole on the headsail and the finn sail running by the lee.
Select to expand quotePhoenixStar said..
Would that be Tuamotu or Hinchinbrook ?? 
We have it all here in Queensland.
Select to expand quotecisco said..PhoenixStar said..
Would that be Tuamotu or Hinchinbrook ?? We have it all here in Queensland.
That's Hinchinbrook, Gayundah Creek, and we had a great wind to get us into Zoe from there, then back to Orpheus. Back in Horseshoe Bay on Magnetic now. I think I will stay here dodging the freezing weather you Bundaberg people are suffering for another couple of months.
Select to expand quoteRamona said..boty said..Ramona said..
Gave my "new" downwind headsail a test run today. I have a few really good dacron Finn sails about the place. I had initially intended to sew the foot of two sails together and make a high clew headsail but after fooling about in the backyard decided to use one first up. The luff and foot are shock cord and with some halyard tension the sail stretches out in a nice shape. I simply sewed a long tack with a cord up to the Cunningham eye. Filled in the window. Rust stains spoil it a bit but it will only be flown well offshore.
will you drop the main with the twins on
I would in a decent breeze. I think it would work well also in light breezes broad reaching and deeper with the pole on the headsail and the finn sail running by the lee.
i have used them on boats in the past and its surprising how effecient they are and steer really easy
Select to expand quotePhoenixStar said..
I think I will stay here dodging the freezing weather you Bundaberg people are suffering for another couple of months.
Don't you believe it. The weather in Bundaberg is just fine. Another of our classic winter days when you only even think about a jacket in the early morning or after 7 pm. Today was a clear blue cloudless sky, crisp air and warm sunshine.
It is no wonder that those that know Bundaberg will not consider living anywhere else.
Pssst! Don't tell anybody else about how great it is to live in Bundaberg otherwise southerners will flood the place and drive our real estate prices up. They have been static or even declining for the last 10 years. The last quarterly report on real estate sales in the Bundaberg region revealed that 30% of the properties were sold at a loss. A three bed room brick home with double garage can be bought here for less than $250,000 any day of the week.
Keep in mind also that if a person or family moves to Bundaberg, they are almost automatically guaranteed a Centrelink income. That is a sad statement of reality and the local news paper has even published that Bundaberg is the fat and welfare capital of Australia.
Horseshoe Bay, Magnetic Island, when I was last there, last was the eccentric capital of Australia. Is it still that way or have the eccentrics turned themselves into a tourist attraction??
The wife of the drummer of Midnight Oil had a bikini shop on Magnetic. Is that still existent?
I am assuming you are heading further north and if so I highly recommend The Hole in the Wall which on the chart is Mourillyan Harbour. If you go in there you will wonder how they get ships in there. A great spot for an overnighter, and a great spot for a few days. To get into town you need to hitch hike and most anybody will pick you up. Most likely the driver will offer you a joint and say that before he goes to town he needs to call in somewhere and pick up some more mull.
Once you pass Airlie Beach you are in the "Deep North". 
Select to expand quoteboty said..
i have used them on boats in the past and its surprising how effecient they are and steer really easy
I know how to raise two headers on a single forestay when running. The smaller sail to windward, the larger to leeward. Can be problematic if the wind gets up.
What are the collective's thoughts on twin forestays?? I have sailed on a 43 IOR type across the Tasman with twin forestays and they gave us a lot of flexibility on and off the wind.
Select to expand quotecisco said..PhoenixStar said..
I think I will stay here dodging the freezing weather you Bundaberg people are suffering for another couple of months.
Don't you believe it. The weather in Bundaberg is just fine. Another of our classic winter days when you only even think about a jacket in the early morning or after 7 pm. Today was a clear blue cloudless sky, crisp air and warm sunshine.
It is no wonder that those that know Bundaberg will not consider living anywhere else.
Pssst! Don't tell anybody else about how great it is to live in Bundaberg otherwise southerners will flood the place and drive our real estate prices up. They have been static or even declining for the last 10 years. The last quarterly report on real estate sales in the Bundaberg region revealed that 30% of the properties were sold at a loss. A three bed room brick home with double garage can be bought here for less than $250,000 any day of the week.
Keep in mind also that if a person or family moves to Bundaberg, they are almost automatically guaranteed a Centrelink income. That is a sad statement of reality and the local news paper has even published that Bundaberg is the fat and welfare capital of Australia.
Horseshoe Bay, Magnetic Island, when I was last there, last was the eccentric capital of Australia. Is it still that way or have the eccentrics turned themselves into a tourist attraction??
The wife of the drummer of Midnight Oil had a bikini shop on Magnetic. Is that still existent?
I am assuming you are heading further north and if so I highly recommend The Hole in the Wall which on the chart is Mourillyan Harbour. If you go in there you will wonder how they get ships in there. A great spot for an overnighter, and a great spot for a few days. To get into town you need to hitch hike and most anybody will pick you up. Most likely the driver will offer you a joint and say that before he goes to town he needs to call in somewhere and pick up some more mull.
Once you pass Airlie Beach you are in the "Deep North".
It's an incredibly small world. I met the wife of the drummer of Midnight Oil when I was in Sydney prior to the 79/80? Syd to Hob. She and one of her friends volunteered to show visitors entered in the race around Sydney and they were assigned to our boat.
She was a teacher then and Midnight Oil was touring up the coast in Queensland.
Select to expand quotecisco said..boty said..
i have used them on boats in the past and its surprising how effecient they are and steer really easy
I know how to raise two headers on a single forestay when running. The smaller sail to windward, the larger to leeward. Can be problematic if the wind gets up.
What are the collective's thoughts on twin forestays?? I have sailed on a 43 IOR type across the Tasman with twin forestays and they gave us a lot of flexibility on and off the wind.
the disadvantage of twin forestays is the forestay tension is shared between the 2 stays and when the one with the sail on is sheeted home it gets all the forestay sag while the lazy one remains taunt not so good for going to weather
Yeah boty. Maybe not so much of a problem on larger yachts with big beefy rigging but for my 30 footer I think more cons than pros.
Select to expand quotecisco said..PhoenixStar said..
I think I will stay here dodging the freezing weather you Bundaberg people are suffering for another couple of months.
Don't you believe it. The weather in Bundaberg is just fine. Another of our classic winter days when you only even think about a jacket in the early morning or after 7 pm. Today was a clear blue cloudless sky, crisp air and warm sunshine.
It is no wonder that those that know Bundaberg will not consider living anywhere else.
Pssst! Don't tell anybody else about how great it is to live in Bundaberg otherwise southerners will flood the place and drive our real estate prices up. They have been static or even declining for the last 10 years. The last quarterly report on real estate sales in the Bundaberg region revealed that 30% of the properties were sold at a loss. A three bed room brick home with double garage can be bought here for less than $250,000 any day of the week.
Keep in mind also that if a person or family moves to Bundaberg, they are almost automatically guaranteed a Centrelink income. That is a sad statement of reality and the local news paper has even published that Bundaberg is the fat and welfare capital of Australia.
Horseshoe Bay, Magnetic Island, when I was last there, last was the eccentric capital of Australia. Is it still that way or have the eccentrics turned themselves into a tourist attraction??
The wife of the drummer of Midnight Oil had a bikini shop on Magnetic. Is that still existent?
I am assuming you are heading further north and if so I highly recommend The Hole in the Wall which on the chart is Mourillyan Harbour. If you go in there you will wonder how they get ships in there. A great spot for an overnighter, and a great spot for a few days. To get into town you need to hitch hike and most anybody will pick you up. Most likely the driver will offer you a joint and say that before he goes to town he needs to call in somewhere and pick up some more mull.
Once you pass Airlie Beach you are in the "Deep North".
Not going further north this year, too hard getting back until later than I would like and anyway I hear that the coral around Lizzard is in very bad shape. It was bad enough three years ago when I was there last. Yeah, Mourillyan is a bit different. Caught a two mud crabs there with only three claws between them - just right for three people.
Select to expand quotePhoenixStar said..
Not going further north this year, too hard getting back until later than I would like and anyway I hear that the coral around Lizzard is in very bad shape. It was bad enough three years ago when I was there last. Yeah, Mourillyan is a bit different. Caught a two mud crabs there with only three claws between them - just right for three people.
Possibly the most difficult stretch when heading south is between Townsville and Bowen. The last time I did it I sailed over to Cape Cleveland in the afternoon from Horseshoe Bay and anchored for the night. Then got an early start so as to make Cape Upstart by evening and avoid Cape Bowling Green.
There is a lot of easting to make on that stretch.
We had an eventful weekend on board hanging around Yorkeys . Had a sail here there with a bit of a troll without luck so we figured we'd head into the creek have lunch and try some bait fishing. While doing so we had a drift fish and my son spotted a blue handline half floating. I was tempted to leave it but my conscience got the better of me about cleaning our environment and I figured with my lack of luck I'll probably get the fishing line around my prop if it's still attached. So we reversed up and retrieved it. It was still connected but with only the bitter end so I started winding it in. It was snagged but the line was strong and refused to break, I got about 50m in pulling the boat along the way. Eventually we came upon a large clump of knotted line which was a relief as I was getting pretty shagged out pulling it all in. The wind was with us but the tide wasn'tand the line was still tight as a guitar string, I was half hoping it would just break. As we came over the top of the snag it released and gave me a moment of reprieve but was'n't broken and slowly became as tight as guitar string again. After some more line retrieved the next snag came up off the bottom I figured I'd be looking at a log very soon.
Hopefully the video works.
www.facebook.com/slammin.ng/videos/10155584630653151/
Select to expand quoteslammin said..
We had an eventful weekend on board hanging around Yorkeys . Had a sail here there with a bit of a troll without luck so we figured we'd head into the creek have lunch and try some bait fishing. While doing so we had a drift fish and my son spotted a blue handline half floating. I was tempted to leave it but my conscience got the better of me about cleaning our environment and I figured with my lack of luck I'll probably get the fishing line around my prop if it's still attached. So we reversed up and retrieved it. It was still connected but with only the bitter end so I started winding it in. It was snagged but the line was strong and refused to break, I got about 50m in pulling the boat along the way. Eventually we came upon a large clump of knotted line which was a relief as I was getting pretty shagged out pulling it all in. The wind was with us but the tide wasn'tand the line was still tight as a guitar string, I was half hoping it would just break. As we came over the top of the snag it released and gave me a moment of reprieve but was'n't broken and slowly became as tight as guitar string again. After some more line retrieved the next snag came up off the bottom I figured I'd be looking at a log very soon.
Hopefully the video works.
www.facebook.com/slammin.ng/videos/10155584630653151/
It's a big old grouper. Cut it off ASAP they are like 50 year old. Had one in Airlie beach many years back the size of my tender.
Select to expand quoteslammin said..
We had an eventful weekend on board hanging around Yorkeys . Had a sail here there with a bit of a troll without luck so we figured we'd head into the creek have lunch and try some bait fishing. While doing so we had a drift fish and my son spotted a blue handline half floating. I was tempted to leave it but my conscience got the better of me about cleaning our environment and I figured with my lack of luck I'll probably get the fishing line around my prop if it's still attached. So we reversed up and retrieved it. It was still connected but with only the bitter end so I started winding it in. It was snagged but the line was strong and refused to break, I got about 50m in pulling the boat along the way. Eventually we came upon a large clump of knotted line which was a relief as I was getting pretty shagged out pulling it all in. The wind was with us but the tide wasn'tand the line was still tight as a guitar string, I was half hoping it would just break. As we came over the top of the snag it released and gave me a moment of reprieve but was'n't broken and slowly became as tight as guitar string again. After some more line retrieved the next snag came up off the bottom I figured I'd be looking at a log very soon.
Hopefully the video works.
www.facebook.com/slammin.ng/videos/10155584630653151/
It's a big old grouper. Cut it off ASAP they are like 50 year old. Had one in Airlie beach many years back the size of my tender.
Select to expand quotesouthace said..slammin said..
We had an eventful weekend on board hanging around Yorkeys . Had a sail here there with a bit of a troll without luck so we figured we'd head into the creek have lunch and try some bait fishing. While doing so we had a drift fish and my son spotted a blue handline half floating. I was tempted to leave it but my conscience got the better of me about cleaning our environment and I figured with my lack of luck I'll probably get the fishing line around my prop if it's still attached. So we reversed up and retrieved it. It was still connected but with only the bitter end so I started winding it in. It was snagged but the line was strong and refused to break, I got about 50m in pulling the boat along the way. Eventually we came upon a large clump of knotted line which was a relief as I was getting pretty shagged out pulling it all in. The wind was with us but the tide wasn'tand the line was still tight as a guitar string, I was half hoping it would just break. As we came over the top of the snag it released and gave me a moment of reprieve but was'n't broken and slowly became as tight as guitar string again. After some more line retrieved the next snag came up off the bottom I figured I'd be looking at a log very soon.
Hopefully the video works.
www.facebook.com/slammin.ng/videos/10155584630653151/
It's a big old grouper. Cut it off ASAP they are like 50 year old. Had one in Airlie beach many years back the size of my tender.
Managed to get the hook out and he/she swam away pretty strongly.
It should highlight the danger of losing or leaving tackle unattended, imagine the poor bugger being stuck on a snag till it died..
Select to expand quoteslammin said..southace said..slammin said..
We had an eventful weekend on board hanging around Yorkeys . Had a sail here there with a bit of a troll without luck so we figured we'd head into the creek have lunch and try some bait fishing. While doing so we had a drift fish and my son spotted a blue handline half floating. I was tempted to leave it but my conscience got the better of me about cleaning our environment and I figured with my lack of luck I'll probably get the fishing line around my prop if it's still attached. So we reversed up and retrieved it. It was still connected but with only the bitter end so I started winding it in. It was snagged but the line was strong and refused to break, I got about 50m in pulling the boat along the way. Eventually we came upon a large clump of knotted line which was a relief as I was getting pretty shagged out pulling it all in. The wind was with us but the tide wasn'tand the line was still tight as a guitar string, I was half hoping it would just break. As we came over the top of the snag it released and gave me a moment of reprieve but was'n't broken and slowly became as tight as guitar string again. After some more line retrieved the next snag came up off the bottom I figured I'd be looking at a log very soon.
Hopefully the video works.
www.facebook.com/slammin.ng/videos/10155584630653151/
It's a big old grouper. Cut it off ASAP they are like 50 year old. Had one in Airlie beach many years back the size of my tender.
Managed to get the hook out and he/she swam away pretty strongly.
It should highlight the danger of losing or leaving tackle unattended, imagine the poor bugger being stuck on a snag till it died..
Just cutting the line would have sufficed. SS hooks only last a couple of days in the fishes mouth before falling out.
Select to expand quoteRamona said..slammin said..southace said..slammin said..
We had an eventful weekend on board hanging around Yorkeys . Had a sail here there with a bit of a troll without luck so we figured we'd head into the creek have lunch and try some bait fishing. While doing so we had a drift fish and my son spotted a blue handline half floating. I was tempted to leave it but my conscience got the better of me about cleaning our environment and I figured with my lack of luck I'll probably get the fishing line around my prop if it's still attached. So we reversed up and retrieved it. It was still connected but with only the bitter end so I started winding it in. It was snagged but the line was strong and refused to break, I got about 50m in pulling the boat along the way. Eventually we came upon a large clump of knotted line which was a relief as I was getting pretty shagged out pulling it all in. The wind was with us but the tide wasn'tand the line was still tight as a guitar string, I was half hoping it would just break. As we came over the top of the snag it released and gave me a moment of reprieve but was'n't broken and slowly became as tight as guitar string again. After some more line retrieved the next snag came up off the bottom I figured I'd be looking at a log very soon.
Hopefully the video works.
www.facebook.com/slammin.ng/videos/10155584630653151/
It's a big old grouper. Cut it off ASAP they are like 50 year old. Had one in Airlie beach many years back the size of my tender.
Managed to get the hook out and he/she swam away pretty strongly.
It should highlight the danger of losing or leaving tackle unattended, imagine the poor bugger being stuck on a snag till it died..
Just cutting the line would have sufficed. SS hooks only last a couple of days in the fishes mouth before falling out.
That was the nice part as a lent down a bit to cut the line it came out of its own.
This weekend we took our first cruise out of Pittwater and stayed overnight in refuge bay. Was great to finally put up a sail after 5 months of hard work restoring her. Still a long way to go but milestones should be celebrated.
Along the the way I managed to fix more things like the vhf and some interior lights and got the instrumentation to turn on. No data though. :(
The new electric head passed its first major test also ;)
Some pics of our last trip south.
Nothwest island
Masthead island
Anchorage at Big Woody island sandy straits
Smoothest wide bay bar crossing
Double island
sailing on a 6 meter called 6 pack at the Sydney gaffers day at amateurs awesome boat great day
Out for the weekend on the Channel. Tucked up inside Simpsons Point for the night out of the westerly. Rainbows over the Bruny Island isthmus with Fluted Cape off in the distance.
Select to expand quoteboty said..
sailing on a 6 meter called 6 pack at the Sydney gaffers day at amateurs awesome boat great day
Awesome
