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We now have steering. I’ll give a full account of today’s efforts in my daily blog but for now here are some before and after pictures along with some descriptive commentary. Here is a picture of the original starboard pin, the one that didn’t break. Although the starboard pin had no requirement to be attached […] Around 9:30am we set off to hike the coastal path from Opua to Paihia. We had certainly heard some good recommendations about the hike from others and the weather looked great so off we went. After a short walk along the road, the hike took us along a boardwalk which had been put in […] Did a lot of running around yesterday but on reflection I managed to complete nothing. To that end I’ll claim completion (forgot to mention the previous day) of my effort to permanently plumb in the washing machine waste. As part of the build of our enhanced rudder pins I removed my starboard flange and dropped […] BBQ night was again fun. For NZ$10 we got a decent meal, good company and were entered into a prize draw. The draw was set up so that almost every boat won something and some boats more than once. We did pretty good by winning an handheld VHF worth US$300. Not bad for a night […] Yesterday evening’s BBQ was a lot of fun. As expected we met a lot of the friends we’ve made sailing across the Pacific. Some we’ve not seen in quite a while. We all had our stories to tell. Our recent experience with the rudder attracted much interest. Interestingly, on the way to the BBQ we […] |
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