Saturday November 26, 2011

Hi there,
Welcome aboard this week's issue of Rhumbline – grab a cuppa and read on…..and before you boil the billy were you aware that penguins mate for life? Not surprising as they all look alike; it's not like they're going to meet a really new, great looking penguin someday!

Message from the helm

Hello Sailors

Yes the accolades keep rolling…….

This year has seen many international awards presented to the boats we sell –the Beneteau First 30 won ‘Best Small Cruiser Racer’ by Cruising World magazine 2011; the Beneteau Sense 50 won the ‘Best Production Sailing Yacht’ by Asia Boating magazine; the Azimut 45 won the 2011 Italian ’Boat of the Year’ Award and the Azimut Magellano won “Best Innovative Design” at the 2011 World Yacht Trophies Award…..to name just a few. We are very proud to hold the agencies for boats that people admire, purchase and enjoy!

Not only do our boats receive accolades. One of our clients took out the ‘Supreme Registered Master Builders 2011 House of the Year Award’ this week.  Mike Guillemot (Mike Guillemot Building Ltd) built the winning house in Mahau Sound, Marlborough. The judge described the house as ‘an intense and difficult build where the builder gave more thought per sq.m. than any other entry in the competition’. The house was designed by Glenroy Housing. Congratulations to Mike and his team!

Another Lagoon 380 catamaran has arrived and is being commissioned for delivery to its new owner.The Lagoon 380 catamaran is the most successful catamaran ever built in the world with the 660th order now taken. Yes the accolades keep coming.

Call 0800 4 YACHTS or email us.

Latest update on the Waikawa Boating Club...

And the winners are …..

After race 8 in the Yachtfinders Global Summer Twilight series, the leaders are:

Div 1 Slingshot, Real Deal, Blue Velvet II
Div 2 Barvaria 1=, Excel 1=, Freaky 3=, Welcome Home 3=
Div 3 Paperchase, Amanzimtoti, Aquanimity
Div 4 Settimio, Supertramp, Crazy Diamond

www.waikawaboatingclub.co.nz

Yaahsoo Feelees. “Hello Friends”

That’s David in our Picton office practising his Greek. The ink is still wet on the contract for a deal to be concluded in Preveza, Greece. David is no stranger to Greece and the Islands, having lived on Lesvos for a year, David will accompany owners to the land of Mousaka, Tzaziki and Ouzo for sea trials. In an economic environment that sometimes demands creativity to get results for our clients, the Yachtfinders Global team brokered a complex trade deal involving two yachts, each on opposite sides of the world. Congratulations Don, Allan & Pauline. When we say ….more than a brokerage ….. we really mean it!

Kids Corner

Hey Kids!

Which sharks would you find at a construction site?
Hammerhead sharks!

Mahna Mahna to you too!! - Follow this YouTube clip.

Helicopter goes down in the Viaduct

The helicopter hovered not far from Yachtfinders Global headquarters interfering with the normal office sounds – nobody took too much notice. What a shock when we realised there was an horrific crash. The pilot had been working continuously near the Viaduct draw bridge installing the Telecom Christmas tree and miraculously he walked away virtually unscathed. Sales broker Nick Woodmansey from our office learnt from Euroyacht what had happened so he scooped up the opportunity to go down and see for himself! He came back with photos and the news that the pilot and others were uninjured.

Check out the video footage here.

Navigation Made Easy?

In 1984 ‘Loran C’ (LOng RAnge Navigation) was the only electronic navigation device available to the cruising fraternity. The method provided by LORAN was based on measuring the time difference between the receipt of signals from a pair of radio transmitters. A given constant time difference between the signals from the two stations can be represented by a hyperbolic line of position (LOP). If the positions of the two synchronized stations are known, then the position of the receiver can be determined as being somewhere on a particular hyperbolic curve where the time difference between the received signals is constant. In ideal conditions, this is proportionally equivalent to the difference of the distances from the receiver to each of the two stations ……good for you if you grasp all of that.

But back then, noon shots with a sextant served just as well and were more reliable.

Succulent grilled oysters

INGREDIENTS:

Makes 16 oysters
• 16 whole live oysters
• 2 cloves garlic, finely minced
• 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon chilli pepper flakes (or substitute with dashes of Tabasco)
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• cracked black pepper to taste
• 1 tablespoon finely minced parsley

DIRECTIONS:

Heat a small sauce pan over medium-low heat. When hot, add the olive oil and the butter. Add the garlic and saute until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the lemon juice, chili pepper flakes, salt, pepper and parsley. Turn off heat.
Place the oysters, cup side up on a very hot, preheated grill, cover and cook for 1 minute. The oysters should now be slightly open. Quickly remove the oysters. Hold an oyster with an oven mitt and use a shucking knife (or a clean screwdriver if you don't have one) to pry open the oyster. It should easily open. Spoon sauce into each oyster and return oysters to the grill. Cover and grill 4-5 minutes.

Old Superstitions and New Realities

Slowly, very slowly, the realisation began to dawn that something was amiss.

The music of sailing is one of silence only in the imagination. A symphony of whispers, gurgles and watery murmurs surrounds even the stillest boat on the stillest of nights. The stretching of rigging, creaking of bulkheads, the slosh of water passing over the hull and the fizzle of disturbed water left in a boats wake, all combine into a complex tune that is the sound of sailing.

Every sound was still there, except for the fizzle of wake, the trail of phosphorescence no longer sparkling either. How could the sails still be full, the boat heeled over, yet leaving no wake, making no way through the water? ……Full story here.

Author: David Woodley - Yachtfinders Global South

Multinational humour...

An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a Gurkha, a Latvian, a Turk, an Aussie, a German, an American, an Egyptian, a Jap, a Mexican, a Spaniard, a Russian, a Pole, a Lithuanian, a Jordanian, a Kiwi, a Swede, a Finn, an Israeli, a Romanian, a Bulgarian, a Serb, a Swiss, a Greek, a Singaporean, an Italian, a Norwegian, an Argentinian, a Libyan, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist and an African went to a night club. The bouncer said: "Sorry, I can't let you in without a Thai."

Best wishes on and off the water

The Yachtfinders Global Team