Innehållsförteckning för June 2017 från Boating NZ

PETER CAUGHEY WON the final round of the MouthFRESH SuperBoat class at Wanaka’s Oxbow Aquatrack, and with it his ninth New Zealand Jetsprint Title, despite the best efforts of Cyclone Cook. In front of the large crowd, the Canterbury racer put in a blinder of a final run in the top-three elimination round with the fastest time of the day, blitzing 36 corners in just 51.11 seconds. Cyclone Cook stopped flights around the country, grounding regular navigator Louise Blythe. Fortunately, Shama Putaranui, Caughey’s navigator last season, reached the Altherm Jetsprint Championship venue in time, stepping into the boat on Saturday morning. Caughey also had to overcome a power deficit. Cyclone Cook brought low air pressure which, combined with altitude, left naturally-aspirated engines about 100hp down on power. Turbo engines were…

NEW ZEALAND-BASED yacht designer, Kevin Dibley, was named the 2017 Yacht Designer of the Year at the Asian Marine and Boating Awards. The event was held during the recent China International Boat Show in Shanghai. Alistair Skinner, Judges Coordinator for the Awards says he has followed Kevin’s work for some time, especially the boats he has drawn for Asian builders, and have always noted the fairness of the lines. “Perhaps he is not yet as recognised quite as much as some of the previous Award winners, but I am sure that is only a matter of time especially as the Asian arena is one of the growth hot-spots in the global leisure marine market.” Dibley says he is truly honoured to receive the award. “Though it was awarded in my…

Address to: The Editor, Boating New Zealand, PO Box 6341, Wellesley Street, Auckland 1141, or email editor@boatingnz.co.nz Mooring Madness 1 I WRITE AS A mooring owner in Purau Bay Lyttelton and member of Purau Moorings Association Inc. (PMA Inc ) in response to Captain Jim Dilley’s letter Method in the Madness. PMA is a group of 90-plus mooring owners in Purau Bay. Time was when selling a swing mooring you advertised it, you had a yarn to the prospective buyer and agreed on a price. The bookkeepers at ECan did the paperwork, job done. Not so any more. I don’t understand the legalities of these new measures that is for others to determine. What annoys me most is the vehicle which was used to introduce them, ie. a Navigation and…

The AC50 foiling catamaran is predominantly one-design – the wing sail, platform and hulls are all identical to prescribed geometries, leaving the deck layouts, systems and foil designs as the principal areas for exploitation by the individual design teams. The adoption of one-design elements is because the hulls are airborne most of the time. In fact, with the advent of flying tacks and gybes, the hulls are almost certainly capable of remaining dry from start gun to finish – so if they aren’t in the water, why sweat the details? The adoption of the standard wing geometry represents a freezing of technology to limit design costs, allowing the microscope to be turned on the foils and their control systems that have a fundamentally more significant impact on performance. So it’s…

Axopar is a Finnish manufacturer which produced its first boats only three years ago, but has been turning heads and winning awards in Europe ever since. The Axopar 28 was its first offering, but it has since released the 37 (11m) and 24 (7m) variants. More than 500 boats have been built, with the same number again constructed this year alone, making Axopar one of Europe’s fastest-growing boat brands. Dominic Lowe, of New Zealand agent Windcraft NZ Ltd, says demand for the boats has gone “absolutely berserk” since last season’s European boat shows. “Both the 28 and 37 were named ‘boat of the year’ at shows in Europe, and since then the order books have just gone nuts. For us to get into the production queue we have to pre-order…

WATCH IT! ON YOUR PHONE To watch the video on your phone, install a QR-Code scanner app (Apple or Android). Many are free. Launch the app, hover it over the QR-code, and a link to the video will open automatically. The Simbo Rig is a sail management system which involves flying identical 106 percent twin jibs with a high-cut clew. It enables short-handed crews to sail efficiently on all points of the wind with minimum foredeck work, controlled from the security of the cockpit. Simbo Rig is an acronym for Simple Bow Rig. It’s been developed over 65 years of cruising which includes six trans-Atlantic crossings and the Mediterranean. It’s ideal for short-handed cruising sailors who, these days, are not only handling larger and more powerful yachts but also tackling…

As with most things in life, choosing new cruising sails involves compromise. You can opt for the longer life and lower cost of woven polyester sails and accept that, within a season, they will begin to stretch. You will lose full control because you can’t flatten the sails – and that means more heeling, more weather helm, more leeway. There are more expensive sailcloths that weave in stretch-resistant fibres like Dyneema and Vectran, but the very fact that they are woven means they will still stretch as the fibres straighten under load. Woven polyester sails are by definition low modulus (resistance to stretch), low tenacity (breaking strength) compared to newer fibres, but remain popular because of their comparatively low cost, high UV resistance and high flex resistance. They can take…

Fishing competition celebrates long service When Lloyd Stevenson Boatbuilders’ longest-serving staff member hit 20 years of continuous service, it was worth celebrating. Gavin Osborne served his apprenticeship with the company, finishing in 1988. He returned in 1996, starting work on the first of 21 Upfold Elite motoryachts. In 2006, Gavin shifted his focus to engineering: he has engineered every Elite built at LSB since then. A fishing contest seemed the most fitting way to celebrate Gavin’s contribution: “something all the boys could enjoy.” On February 24, more than 40 LSB staff stepped aboard five Elite motor yachts, belonging to Rob Basset, Ken Stevenson, Bill Burrell, Bill and Christine Upfold, and Graeme and Margaret Spooner, and headed out into the Waitemata for a half-day of intense competition and banter. “The day…

A COW WASHED out to sea and marooned on an uninhabited island has finally made her way home. And home isn’t as close as everyone initially thought. Friday the cow managed to make her way to the deserted Karamuramu Island, in the Hauraki Gulf, after being swept away during March’s Tasman Tempest storm which battered the North Island. Three men who work at the McCallum Bros quarry on the 16-acre island got the fright of their lives when they turned up for work on March 10 to find cow prints on the shore line. The men said she quickly became “part of the furniture”, waiting on the shore for her 7am breakfast of hay and standing on high points on the island to watch the men work. A week later,…

Caption the picture, above, for next month. Email editor@boatingnz.co.nz May’s caption winner “Just swanning around Mate!” Congratulations to: Gill Gibbons “I guess he must be the boat-swan’s mate” Runner-up: Allan McDougall Teen studies marine engineering in Canada A GRADUATE FROM ACG Strathallan, Papakura, with a love of all things boating and a talent for football has been accepted into a prestigious Marine Engineering Programme at a Canadian university. Cameron King, 19, a Waiau Pa local who graduated from ACG Strathallan last year, was scouted by National Scouting Report (NSR), an American company that searches abroad for sporting talent for American universities. Cameron completed a successful application process which involved submitting photos and video footage of his football games and a football trial. But his choice of academic course posed a…

“IN TERMS OF the number of boats damaged, claims lodged and the sheer devastation on the ground, Cyclone Debbie is the largest catastrophic weather event I’ve seen,” says Club Marine’s National Claims Technical Manager, Phil Johnson. “Virtually all the boats at the marinas we visited were damaged in one way or another.” He headed a team of seven Club Marine catastrophe event specialists, which responded to Cyclone Debbie when it wrought havoc on the residents of north Queensland as it slammed into the coast on March 28. Airlie Beach and Hamilton Island were the hardest hit areas in terms of damage to Club Marine members’ craft and to marine infrastructure, including marinas, berths and moorings. The cyclone left a total damage bill estimated to be in the billions. The 260km/h…

Puzzle no. 236 Across 8. Marlin_____ - tool used for splicing and other ropework (5) 9. _____ Yacht Club - located at Whangarei Harbour (7) 10. Seabirds with mainly white plumage noted for plunging dives for fish (7) 11. Move like unanchored boat (5) 12. Crow’s _____ - ships’ lookout points (5) 13. Marine growths (5) 15. Town on Isle of Wight famous for annual sailing regatta (5) 17. Landing _____ - floating platform for disembarking passengers or cargo (5) 20. Long narrow waterway made for boats (5) 22. Could be bed option on board boat (7) 23. Old Norse seafarers and sailors (7) 24. By and _____ - common phrase of nautical origin (5) Down 1. _____ line - line on chart connecting points of equal magnetic declination (8)…

I’D LIKE TO complain about the RNI 2-handed race story in the May issue. The RNI 2-handed race is recognized as one of New Zealand’s premium yacht races. I believe this article diminishes the race and all other competitors in the race. The Damon and Josh on Sun Fast did well in the race, with a brand new boat, sailed by a semi-professional crew. The boat was modified extensively from original with a custom sail wardrobe, significantly larger mainsail and longer prod. They did not “clean up” by any means. There were other teams which also performed well above expectation including Activator, Blink and Provincial Cowboy (which actually WON the race), all New Zealand-built-and-designed yachts. In light of supporting and showcasing the New Zealand yachting industry I would have expected…

A slight detour into high school physics is needed at this point. Pressure and velocity of a fluid are inversely proportional. Consider your garden hose. If you turn on the tap but keep your finger over the hose end, the flow speed is zero (ie; none is coming out) but the pressure (set by the house’s system pressure) is at a maximum. When you take your finger off, the flow increases and the pressure drops. With hydraulics, if you want high pressure you have to accept a low flow rate. Conversely, if you want high volume you have to accept a lower pressure. A yacht’s hydraulic systems need to match the requirement of ‘load vs speed’ to ‘pressure vs volume of flow’. For a ‘normal’ canting keel maxi yacht, the…

Reaching speeds of up to 50 knots, it’s widely expected that the high-tech AC50s in this 35th iteration of the America’s Cup will spend more time ‘out’ of the water than in it. Riding high on their foils, these cats are airborne even during tacks and gybes. All of which puts enormous loads on the foils, rudders and elevators. So it’s understandable that the teams have put enormous R&D and precision engineering into the design and construction of these appendages. For ETNZ, transforming those designs into reality fell to Auckland’s Jackson Industries, a company specialising in composite engineering and precision machining for the marine industry. It’s been a highly collaborative relationship – one which saw part of ETNZ’s engineering and construction team move on to the company’s Onehunga site nearly…

Sometime in the early 1930s, British explorer G.E.P. Collins sailed to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on a phinisi, a traditional twin-mast seven-sail schooner used for transport, cargo, fishing and raiding around the archipelago since the 16th century. Copied from Portuguese ships, it was slow, cumbersome and riddled with rats, but Collins became so enamoured with the grace and beauty of the high-sterned vessel he decided to build a phinisi of his own. So he sailed on to Bira, an isolated village on the tip of South Sulawesi where the seafaring Bugis people have built phinisis on the beach using primitive construction techniques unchanged for centuries. Collins’ layover in Bira was anything but smooth sailing: he caught a volley of tropical diseases, was swindled at every turn and faced extraordinary…

WATCH IT! ON YOUR PHONE To watch the video on your phone, install a QR-Code scanner app (Apple or Android). Many are free. Launch the app, hover it over the QR-code, and a link to the video will open automatically. Heading up the joint Southern-Lazercraft production facility in Mosgiel, Shane Child, son of Lazercraft founder Gavin Child, is passionate about the Lazercraft brand. The aluminium boats became known for their soft ride, sporty lines and solid build. Lazercraft pioneered hybrid boats that combined aluminium hulls with fibreglass tops. But compared to early model Lazercrafts, the first GT 650 HT (hardtop) to leave the factory really blurs the line between aluminium and fibreglass boats. STYLISH LOOKS The GT 650 HT has benefitted from its association with Southern Boats. The stylish new…

THE NEXT BREED of potential Olympic sailors has been identified by the Aon Fast Track Programme. A youth development squad was first created in 2011 and the Aon Fast Track Programme aims to accelerate the standard of the most talented youth sailors in the country to successful Olympic campaigners. Previous members of the squad include the likes of Alex Maloney and Molly Meech, who won silver in the 49er FX at last year’s Rio Olympics. This year’s batch is made up of 12 sailors, with eight coming in the 49er class, and it’s envisaged all will transition to the top-tier NZL Sailing Team within two or three years. “In the short term, they are the training partners who will push our Olympians,” says Ian Neely, Yachting New Zealand acting high…

PRE-REGATTA FAVOURITE Sean Herbert was crowned champion at the 45th Starling nationals held at Auckland’s Wakatere Boating Club over Easter weekend. The event drew 102 entrants from all over the country and the Cook Islands. And yet again, the champion was decided by the last race. With two races to go, any of the top three on the points table could have won the series. Although leading through the qualifying series and into the final day’s racing, Luke Cashmore suffered a personal worst placing of 20th. Herbert managed to win the same race – a fortunate bounce back after a shocker 23rd in the previous heat. He had been the season’s form sailor, winning regatta after regatta in all conditions. He attracted high praise for wins in the upper wind…

She’s the first full-blown production launch from a New Zealand boatbuilder since the demise of Genesis Boats, although Rayglass produced a number of its semi-production 4000 model. The Rayglass 3500 is a response to pent-up demand, says Rayglass Sales Director Scott Little, who, with other key staff at Rayglass, had considerable input into the model. “I’m like a lot of our customers: I was looking for a boat around this size but was feeling frustrated by what’s out there – older secondhand vessels or imported boats. At Rayglass we felt the time was right to develop and build a Kiwi boat for New Zealanders and the 3500 is our take on that.” GREAT UPTAKE There has been a clear strategy getting the 3500 to market. “We wanted it to be…

While this article isn’t about the merits/demerits of grinding vs pedalling, the topic is relevant in terms of ‘input power’ to the hydraulic system. The last Cup saw much analysis of grinding output, with figures varying from 1.2 to 1.5kW as peak output, and 0.9 to 1.1kW sustained for 20 or 30 seconds. But this is for the top performers – the ‘normal’ grinder was at around 1.0kW peak and 0.6kW sustained. A dip into the world of road cycling reveals a mountain of data about power outputs, watts per kg of bodyweight, and a plethora of other metrics. No doubt ETNZ has relied on more than a Google search for its decision to adopt pedalling rather than grinding. From available Tour de France data, peak outputs of 0.9kW are…

German couple Tobias and Nicole Janke – and their two girls – pulled into Auckland’s Orakei marina earlier this year, some two years after starting their voyage in France. Their vessel – Invictus – is the latest-model 16m Lagoon 52 catamaran, a spacious, modern and finely-appointed yacht. I took the opportunity to quiz them about the decision to sail on a cat with two small children – picking up the boat from the Lagoon factory in Bordeaux, France, sailing her across the Atlantic, through the Panama Canal and across the Pacific – to fulfil a life-long dream and cruise the world. With her tall mast, high-sided hulls and 8.74m beam, she’s an imposing sight and sailing her, you’d imagine, would be quite a handful for a relatively-inexperienced couple. “She’s anything…

After a month in the Fiords we were ready for the open sea and a taste of civilisation again. We set sail from Puysegur on dusk with a full moon, clear skies and flat seas. Upwind in 15 knots and heading for Solander Island 25 miles away. At midnight we tacked over and made for Oban via Foveaux Strait. The south wind dropped at 2am and we motor-sailed in calm seas the final 25 miles, with Stewart outlined against the moonlit night sky. Dawn had us near Codfish Island with great coastal views of white sand beaches and dense native bush. At 11am the current turned and carried us the final 20 miles to Oban in glassy sea and sunshine. Wow – who’d have thought this about one of the…

Keep it in the family A NEW VHF marine radio family – the Simrad RS20, B&G V20 and Lowrance Link-6 – are Class D DSC-Approved, NMEA 2000® compatible. They are suitable for a variety of boats, from small RIBs to larger motor cruisers and yachts. All three feature a dot white matrix LCD screen with inverted light mode, four backlit microphone buttons and an easier front-mount installation with snap-on edge bezels. The new models have a new Start-up Wizard for easier radio set up, improved scanning features, a Favourites shortcut for customising your settings and a My Channels list, enabling users to only scan desired channels. All international channels are included and the controls are designed for left-hand operation, allowing for right-hand control of the helm. Key features include intuitive…

When the earth moves the whole world knows about it. Screens and newspapers all over the world are peppered with pictures of wrecked buildings and terrestrial mayhem. But in fact more than 80 per cent of seismic action takes place on the sea floor – and the only indication that anything is amiss are the gigantic waves that can sweep seafronts in their wake. These waves are called tsunamis from the Japanese tsu (harbour) and nami (wave) and are caused by the sudden violent displacement of water caused by earthquakes, volcanoes or underwater explosions. The pressure wave of displaced seawater is powered laterally at 90 degrees to the source. And the world’s foremost seafloor tectonic hot spot is the Tonga Trench between New Zealand and the Friendly Islands. Normal ocean…