Moonwalker stays in the family!

Hi Everyone,

Just to let everyone know that we are alive and well and working hard on OCTenders in order to get ourselves going again as a family of 4.

The first step was actually deciding to keep Moonwalker as our family boat. Its a fabulous boat, we know it well, it sails wonderfully and well it carries so much of our history we found it very difficult to part with her.

The second step is is an idea in development, but all going our way we should be doing our up and down to the islands project with the girls in the next couple of years.

Life is good on land too... but it would be even better if we could get the best of both worlds...

Fair winds to you all.

Moonwalker's Inventory

Sails:

NEW Quantum sails south Africa Mainsail, Fully Batterned on Windslyce cars and track

Doyle sails Genoa

Doyle sails Code Zero on Schaffer continious Furler

Working Jib

Self taking storm jib

NEW Quantum sails assymetric gennaker, in cruising launch sock

Furlex furler

Standing rigging all replaced over the last 4 years

Stackpack with lazy jacks

Spectra Running Backstays

 

Ground Tackle:

Spade main anchor rebuilt and re galvanised to new condition

50metres new italian 8mm chain with 50m rope rode.

Danforth secondary anchor with 20 metres 8mm chain with 50 metres rope rode

Maxwell 800 windlass with mobile control and 3 monthly servicing

Energy:

2 x 80 watt and 1 x 60 watt solar panel mounted on alloy davitts able to be tilted

2 x 60 watt panels cabin top mounted

Blue sky MPPT 25 amp solar controller

Air X 400 watt wind generator with brake switch

50 amp Bosch alternator main engine mounted connected to Balmar AR-5 multi stage voltage regulator

1 x 12 volt start battery

4 x Trojan 105 AH 6 volt Battery connected in series

2 x inverters

Steerage and Autopilots:

External transom hung rudder boxes with tillers which can be use as emergency steering in case of cable failure.

Dyneema steering cable plus spare

Rudder blades fully retractable

Main Autopliot - Raymarine S2g AST Smart pilot with a rotary type 2 drive Connected to steerage via chain to main wheel

Secondary Pilot – Simrad WP30 Wheel pilot

Instrumentation and navigation:

Furuno Radar

Raymarine Autopilot head unit

Raymarine wind speed and direction

Raymarine Depth and speed

1 x compass

Garmin 128 Gps with connection to seamap

Garmin Handheld Gps

Communication:

Icom VHF

Kenwood SSB and automatic tuner

Pactor 2 Modem

Sony cd/radio with speakers in cabin and cockpit

Storm Riding Equipment:

Australian Para anchors Yacht series Drouge,Bridle and Rode

Australian Para anchors Parachute Anchor,bridle amd Rode

Safety:

Zodiac 4 man Liferaft in soft grab style bag

4 x inflatable hutchwilco lifejackets

Grab-bag drum with all emergency contents

2 x lifebouys

1 x danbouy with float light

First aid medical kit

Offshore flare Pack

Large spotlight

Sanitary:

1 x Jabsco manual pump toitet in port hull

1x Jabsco manual pump toilet in stb hull connected if desired to fitted holding tank

Full plumbing for a lpg califont

Tankage:

150 litres fresh water storage amidships in each hull total 300

4 x 20 litre jerry can fresh water

Fresh water able to be obtained from Guttering on Hardtop

140 litres approx Diesel storage each side in main beam

2 x 20 litre diesel containers

Auxilary Propulsion:

27 HP Daihatsu Diesel Main engine situated in the centre of the back beam.

This drives two individually controled hydraulic pumps which power two hydraulic motors. One of these in each hull are connected to a standard 1'' Stainless steel shafts throught volvo dripless shaft seals.

2 x Gori Two Bladed Folding Propellers.


Please note that we may have missed a few things but the main item are in this inventory. If there are any items you want to know in particular do not hesitate to contact.

Public apology for no inventory list for Moonwalker....ah sorry.

Hi everyone, Russell here, normally Karin has the pen.

This is an apology to people looking for our inventory list for Moonwalker.

Here's my excuse...

Moonwalker adverting has created a lot of interest and correspondence, also I am still going through the job list after the refit. The Waitangi to Whangaroa race was a bit of a shake down cruise for the boat, settle her rig back in and make sure things were good.You never finish all your jobs before you leave the hard.

All of my girls spent 3 days with me onboard in Whangaroa. 1st time as a Family. Check the fotos. I then had a nice solo sail back down the coast to the Bay.

We have had a couple of open boat sessions for 2 groups of people but they were more interested in learning how to sail offshore cats than buying Moonwalker, thats fine, I like talking cats and sail.

We are currently keeping an eye on the forecast for a trip down to Great Barrier Island. It's sort of on the bucket list before Moonwalker sells and also the first coastal with both kids. If its not looking good we will just have to spend some time around the Bay of Islands...what a shame  ; )

By the way, we sold the tent that Moonwalker was refitted in, it worked great and sold well.

So really we are just in the middle of summer, busy running around and trying to use the boat as much as we can while we still have her.

Karin is on my case, I will get to the inventory out soon.

We have been looking around our photos a bit, so here are a few more that we would like to share:

NZ Herald Interview and article

Line Honours Whangaroa Race 2014

Some of Moonwalker's sailing videos

Baia de Guanabara - Rio de Janeiro

Very light wind conditions, Moonwalker still sails beautifully...

 

 

Langkawi - Malaysia

Doing 6 knots in 6 knots of wind...

 



Moonwalker in the Media