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Post by Admin on Nov 20, 2021 18:16:44 GMT 12
If you’re a newcomer (or even a shy old-hand) please feel welcome and even encouraged to introduce yourself here with as much or as little info as you care you share. Pictures are great too.
I realise that some folks already know each other from other places but let’s keep in mind newcomers who are ‘fresh’ here and help them navigate the crowd and work out who everyone is!
Thanks.
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Post by Fogg on Nov 20, 2021 18:38:23 GMT 12
I’m a family cruising guy who’s been enjoying the Hauraki Gulf and Northland coast for ~18hrs since landing here from UK. Grew up sailing in the Solent and European Channel ports initially dinghies but then cruisers and racing and even managed a Fastnet one year (never again)! Currently on my 3rd NZ boat. Started with a fabulous kiwi design Lidgard 35 which gave me 14yrs of probably the most memorable sailing of my life (for all the right reasons) but more recently fell under the spell of family-friendly production boats. Have done a couple of Pacific trips on other people’s boats and maybe one day will try with my own. And finally here’s my latest boat “Fogg”, a Jeanneau 50DS named after the mythical explorer Phileas Fogg from the storybook “Around the World in 80 Days” by Jules Verne (a lot of people do ask) 😊
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Post by sloopjohnb on Nov 20, 2021 18:55:43 GMT 12
Ok first up
I am a white, pale and male now retired from a working life in engineering as a self employed mechanical designer in the industrial piping, freezing works, dairy, food processing industries, having worked in NZ Oz USA and Puerto Rico in taking projects from concept to commissioning. I started sailing at the Howick Sailing Club at 10, sailed Arrow's P's and Moth's then went water skiing for several worlds then joined the offshore racing on Roulette 2 then completed 5 Hobart races on Satanita 2, Chantel, Tequila, Corinthian and Condor, several races on Kialoa in Auckland I was a IOR measurer and boat n...r for a couple years. Of course got married while my mates headed offshore racing, brought a sunburst to teach my 3 boys to sail, funny how the generation cycle rotates as 2 of them have bought sunburst to teach their kids to sail. Early 2000's started radio controlled sailing at Lake Pupuke. Then I commuted to Hawkes Bay for 5 years for work then shifted down there and started sailing a PT. Shifted back to the Franklin area as the boys started to populate with grandchildren. Now I am back r c sailing with a multiple od of boats. DF65, DF95 and several IOM's and regularly race at Wattle, and building a 1:24 scale Pride of Baltimore II as a r c model. Have filled the position of commodore at Wakatere and NMMS.
Yes I have been known to stir the pot.
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Post by dutyfree on Nov 22, 2021 7:53:05 GMT 12
Retired from yachting ownership and racing after about 20 years of racing in Auckland. Shifted to launches, but still love to following yachting and yachts.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2021 15:51:21 GMT 12
Having sailed, raced, cruised, boozed, built yachts, painted yachts, professionally and internationally for over 30 years I gave it all away disillusioned with the sport and in particular Yachting NZ. I now do long distance walking, cruising in the Med, and the odd bit of racing at Tiburon YC when in the States. (Bleessed to have Kiwi, Euro, and US citizenship)
Just recently joined up after joining Crew last week (only to find a bunch of lemmings to afraid to say what they think)... Anyway I left them after my 5th and final post... Here it is ..
Sorry,I'm not one for hiding my thoughts thru a private channel... .
Sure the site owner can do what he wants (until the membership posting depletes to a few nice guys having a chat about everything nicely sterilized)
But in the real world things are dirty, tough, and bloody interesting.
I think, in life ( like Covid) you can't compromise differing opinion because some one doesn't like it. You've got to immerse yourself in the Melting pot of opinions, laugh a bit, ignore what you don't like, try to understand what you read, and enjoy the ride. ... Bumps and all!
The road is never straight and smooth... thank God, and how can you enjoy " clean" until you have been dirty"
This site has appeased the boring and lost the fun (knot me...) It has become woke and for no other reason than a lack of moderators,. ?
Bring back "general discussion" and bring back moderators.
Let the adults amongst us be adults and accept the likes of of Rehab for what he is. . After all we don't know him or what he's dealing with in his life. But to ban him for a judgement call on what he likes is very stalinesk.
Being " niche" is fine but allowing more sailors to comment is the end game... Isn't it it?.. or is it for a prim and proper few?
I think, it's better to tolerate a few bad eggs than to starve everybody of some fantastic people like Knotme.
I also think that some here need to look at there own "more holy than water", " I've never been political", " I've never offended someone", behavior and think about what they have done to the site for it to be less than what it was
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