Top speed for the day was 17.8! Things were a little too full on to grab the camera at that point haha.

I got mine from Tony’s shapeway shop: www.shapeways.com/shops/jony

Thanks already placed order 👌🏻

Cheers man.Yeah I was doing one or two trips up there a year, but haven't been up in a while. I must get back again soon. Its a pretty cool wreck the canterbury!

@Sailing Rattler - Diving KissCCR - Sam McD oh cool man I'm doing my instructor course at the moment and I'm hoping to get into rebreathers one day where did you get certified for the kiss

@@connorwilsonbikes111 the resident Kiss CCR instructor is Tony at New Zealand Sea Adventures. I think there might be one or two other NZ Kiss instructors, but I dunno how active they are.

Na, never worked it out. As I have said in a few other comments, I really think it must have come down to shallow breathing or just a run of the mill head rush like you sometimes get on land maybe? Not sure how the physicis behind that works underwater.

@@TURSTY09 Thanks for the reply. Mushroom valves maybe? Did your heart rate go up? I had a CO2 hit about a year ago. It was a crazy experience. Glad you managed yours and got out of dodge.

@@familyscuba1292 Mushroom valves all tested ok and have dived the same ones since. My heart rate was actually super relaxed on that dive, hence why I think it might have been shallow breathing. I guess if I was breathing really softly theres a possibility it wasnt closing the mushroom valves letting a bit of breath move back and foward. Unlikley though I think. I did wonder if the shutoff being closed might have meant I was running low loop volume, adding to the shallow breathing possibility, but the ADV takes a good amount of negative pressure to fire and I usually add volume via my BOV.....so that dont make a lot of sense.

@@TURSTY09 Yeah. Super weird. Learn from the experience and move on I guess.

Hey Andy, Shes going good. We just got back from 5 days in the sounds on her picking up an outboard. We crossed the Cook Straight on a 15kt day after a week of 30-40kt winds so the sea state was pretty average, then back again in 20kts after a few stormy 50+ days and she punched straight through it. It would have been very uncomfortable on a launch or smaller yacht, but the sheer weight of this boat give it amazing stability in lumpy seas. A friend of Dad's was on the ferry that passed us and wondered what we were doing out on a day like that haha. It was actually a fun sail back. We had one night of 55kt gusts on anchor. We set a second anchor just in case around midnight, but she held solid and was comfortable motion wise. Just couldn't sleep because of the noise and fear of dragging in that weather. All in all we were very impressed with the boat! I didn't film any of it because we had just come out of lockdown in NZ and I just felt like enjoying the trip, but we did replace all the through hulls and holding tank plumbing a while back and I filmed all that. Just need to get around to editing it!

@@TURSTY09 thanks Sam … good to hear you’re enjoying her and looking forward to seeing the vid on the work you’ve done. Thanks for the feedback on stability … that seems to be the attraction to me. Big, solid, beamy and stable = dry and comfortable. My wife has never sailed so I want her to be comfortable as possible to max the chances of her enjoying it. I did a few seasons of inshore/offshore sailing many moons ago on a Young88 (a good Kiwi boat) which was fast for a cruiser but we were always wet … so looking for something very comfortable. How’s the space downstairs? A boat that size should feel fairly roomy? Btw if you would like to take this conversation offline perhaps we can message via email?

@@andyl-d6633 Yeah feel free to leave me your email addy or flick me a PM on my Instagram account (link in the about tab of my Channel).

Hey Bill. Surprisingly we have had more days becalmed in Welly since having her home then windy days! We went West for a couple reasons. The weather had a down wind run west and up wind east. And that Wairarapa coast can be brutal with way off weather forecasts and things changing really quickly. We just prefer West because of personal experience mor then anything and more options if things do change (I.e. New Plymouth, Mana, the sounds, Nelson. Lots of different angles to different places if need be)

@@TURSTY09 Well Done , The Wairarapa coast is reason enough , been there & experienced the weather The only good thing is 9 out of 10 its off the coast but in an hour it changes to the south for the Palliser bay section , All ways fun . Fair winds .

I agree about keeping away from the Wairarapa coast! In 1987 we headed up that side with a forecast of gentle southerlies.. turned into 3 days of over 50 knots... less than fun, especially as we had our children (5 and 3 yrs old) on board, and the satnav set died 12 hours into the trip. During the trip we were trying to pick up Portland Island lighthouse to get a position... but in the morning forecast & notices to mariners it said Portland Island light was extinguished... I had been fairly confident of my DR position and couldn't understand why we weren't seeing the light around 5am. Luckily I had turned East and headed out to sea rather than continue towards Mahia peninsula.. we could have been in serious trouble! A few years ago my wife and I crewed for a friend from Wellington to Opua... we persuaded him to take the West coast.. we had a pretty good trip overall, stopping for one night in New Plymouth on the way, and anchoring for one night between Cape Rienga and North Cape. Looks like that boat can keep up some pretty good speeds without knocking you around too much.

Thanks Andy. I can’t remember exactly but I think it was two reefs and we were over powered with the wind building. We added another and I think we sped up from memory 😂. Having a boom furling main means we have infinite reef points, but we generally use the Battern’s as a guid to reef to.

Thanks Sam. Didn’t pick up on the boom furling. She seemed to be handling the 25 knots comfortably .. nice and flat. Looking forward to the next vid!

He was average and talked too much! 🤣

Nev that’s Mana Marina. Quick trip across the Straight to the sounds!

M van Leeuwen this was a 13b bridge port.

This tank is looooooong gone, but it lasted well until I sold it.

Ha....never noticed that! =)

what drone? Was the occasional props in the video intentional editing or due to the tilt when you hit the gas to catch up to the boarder?

This was shot with my old Phantom 2 vision plus and what you see in the video is actually the shadow of the props. It wasn’t intentional at all and I think it kinda ruined the vid a bit. Was due to the sun being so low in the sky at the end of the day (or the start...can’t remember). My new Mavic Pro is much better for shooting Wakeboarding. It’s so much faster then the P2 in sport mode.

cool, I have a p4, get the props in the action when I go from slow to fast then it balances out and they are out of it. Love sport mode, my group hydrofoils, boat speed around 23 so sport mode is great to keep up.

Yeah I really like what they did with the Mavic Pro - moving the camera to the front of the drone. Its nearly impossible to get the props in the pic - not impossible.....but nearly! Much better than the Phantoms in that respect.

Cheers man. Its the DJI Mavic Pro. Great little bit of kit! Should really use it more.

Thanks for the comment. I was very easy on the gearbox in this car. When putting 500+hp through a stock gearbox with over 100,000km on it it pays to baby it a little. If I hadn't poured every cent I had into the rest of the car, I would have had a spare and been a little more rough on it.

Nice site. Just signed up and posted it on there. Cheers for the suggestion.

I want to see the footage from the black FD in front of him.

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David Huffman Huh?

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