Weight of an aluminium sailing catamaran is often subject to erroneous opinions expressed by designers and manufacturers of GRP vessels. A bit of a myth perpetrated by mass production houses.

Our Mumby Cybercat 48 was dry weight 8,500kg when hauled with a travel lift with weighing capabilities in 2009. At the same time the travel lift hauled a new 48′ GRP cat that weighed 18,500 kg, dry (no water, no fuel).

Alloy is 4mm below waterline and 3mm above waterline. Length 14.8m, width 7.6m and draft 1m.

Strength is a whole other issue. Lifting with a Roodberg trailer, such as at Spot On Marine in Darwin, demonstrates no distortion when suspended on the trailer arms. However, GRP vessels may distort and in some cases damage.

We met two cat families that had their hulls crack when lifting with a similar trailer.

Respectfully,

Jeff Boyd.

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SY Kaitoro
Mumby Cybercat48
VJN4817

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Our experience with Fannie Bay Gourmet Meats in September 2017 was a bit mixed.

Below is our posting on their Facebook page and when I look there are quite a few negative postings (mixed in with very positive postings) –

https://www.facebook.com/Fannie-Bay-Gourmet-Meats-324714834257090/

Lamb rumps and other meat were full of fat and gristle that required lots of trimming.

We placed an order for a 2 month sailing trip with a specific request to have all fat removed prior to vacuum sealing as we have limited freezer space. And, seal/freeze all in the 16cm bags they offered us.

Order was delayed such that it arrived the day of departure so we could not return it. Opening the boxes was a horror to see the order was twice the size of that we had from Cairns previously as it included a lot of fat and gristle.

Lamb rumps were only marginally edible after extensive trimming, rump steaks were rimmed with the thick fat that we specifically asked to be removed and the chicken thighs were not in the 16cm vacuum bags requested.

Disappointing for an $800 order ($797 to be exact).

Kinda sad as their Greek lamb sausages were good and the kangaroo special order was awesome.

We will go back when in Darwin in May and quiz them why the order was not as requested. We may again buy their sausages, skippy and chicken – so long as they don’t throw us out of the store!

But search elsewhere for lamb rumps (eg. Parup Quality Meats or a Coles).

Jeff and Anne-Marie
SY Kaitoro
Mumby Cybercat 48
VJN4817

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Where and how?

It appears this wreck occurred in York Sound and at night. From the videos it appears they hit a reef that was 300m further out than charted.

Easy to claim travelling at night was too risky but travelling during daylight hours, tho’ safer, is not a guarantee if the water is silty. And, with Zone of Confidence C(4) charting.

Would be nice to know exactly where this occurred.

Jeff and Anne-Marie
SY Kaitoro
Mumby Cybercat 48
VJN4817

Another prospect for smaller amounts of fuel in 200l drums is Honeymoon Bay –

From: honeymoonbay wa
Subject: Re: Visit in October and help with crew exchange.
Date: August 15, 2017 at 2:11:21 PM GMT+9:30
To: Jeff Boyd
Hi Jeff,

There are 2 ways to do it:
1) you can contact Nic and Jo from North Kimberley Transport on 0439 814 816 and organise a drum and transport through them. They will bring a it up on their next run, and we then charge a $5/day minding fee until you get here.

2) we can take care of everything and have a 200L drum waiting here for $700.

Let me know what you decide 🙂

– Joy

And from Joy at Honeymoon Bay –

From: honeymoonbay wa <honeymoonbaywa@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Visit in October and help with crew exchange.
Date: August 8, 2017 at 12:36:24 PM GMT+9:30
To: Jeff Boyd <zmtndoc@gmail.com>

Hi Jeff,

Yep that’s no problem, we’ll be here.

Out tray back can fit 3passengers comfortably, 4 if they want to squish. It’ll be $50pp and you just let us know what time the plane comes etc, we can sort details when you get here 🙂

I’ll put you in our calendar but if you’re able to just drop us an email or call closer to the time as a reminder too that’d help.

Cheers

– Joy
Manager
08 9161 4378

G’day fellas,

Short of purchasing the CD this late in the season you can download the tides tables (as .pdfs) for the primary and secondary stations at <http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/tides/#!/wa-kimberley&gt;

Another great service from BoM!

Limitation is a chart showing those stations. Does the CD have such a chart?
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