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     March 2020
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IN THIS ISSUE...                                                         On the cover: ‘TrailBlazer‘ in winning form at the
                                                                        Javelin Nationals in wellington in February. Photo -
Commodore’s Report...........................3                                       Courtesy of David Brown
Who is Jo?...........................................4                              Advertise in Tell Tales
Nautical Quiz.......................................5                 ...and be seen by hundreds of people in Opua and
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                                                                                       WOW Weekend
                                                                                                 Women on Water
                                                                                                    Bay of Islands
                                                                                                  Fun Sailing Rally

                                                                                                            Friday 1st May
                                                                                                    – Sunday 3rd May 2020

      Women sailors of all abilities are invited to join
      us for the third Women on Water Fun Sailing
      Rally.

      A WOW weekend to develop your sailing skills,
      meet new friends, have fun!

      •    Bring your own boat or use one of ours, organise your
           own crew or join a crew.

      Costs1
                                              Great Escape
      § Join a crew $150 for the weekend, (Great
         boats, participants allocated to crews in consideration
         of experience etc).
      § Plus bring snacks, something to share Saturday
         afternoon and your own refreshments.

      SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

           1.    Friday 1700 meet at Opua Cruising Club; introductions, crew / boat allocations (if required), fun sailing
                 theory, review of forecast, passage planning for the weekend.
           2.    Saturday morning cast off, head to agreed destination, shared late lunch /early dinner ashore.          Potential
                 afternoon sail to the overnight anchorage.
           3.    Sunday morning meet ashore, plan the course to sail home, lunch stop.          Approximately 1700 return to
                 Opua and optional debrief at Opua Cruising Club.

                Emphasis is on fun and participation, sharing ideas and expertise. All elements subject to weather.
          Contact info@greatescape.co.nz Ph (09) 402 7143 https://www.facebook.com/GreatEscapeSailingBayofIslands/

                                                           ***Fun prizes!***

      1
       Costs include provisions for breakfast and lunch Sunday. All other meals and any refreshments are at participant cost. Other
      than time at OCC all BYO. Bring your own boat and crew - $50 entry
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         COMMODORE’S REPORT                                                       Chris Williams

Hi All - Welcome back as another month has flown by.

We have a massive month ahead packed with racing and events. Please check the calendar or
website for more details and in this edition we have a segment on handicapping , how it works
and why so please have a read through as it explains the automated system we have.

We are planning a St Patrick’s Day party, Tuesday the 17th of march. There will be green drinks
and some prizes for anyone that turns up in costume. Check out out Tuesday night email and
facebook for updates.

We had one of the largest attendances to our February bbq cruise in Entico bay , it was great so
see so many new faces there. The next weekend bbq cruise is on the 14th 15th March location to
be decided and will be up on our facebook page on the 13/14th. Please remember all are welcome
so come along and meet the crew have a beer (or 3).

Recently a couple of our members competed in Wellington for the Kingham Trophy and Sanders
cup with fantastic results. There are more details further through the Tell Tales but a great result
from Antje and Fi with a second and third with David Brown taking out both events in the
Javelins.

On other racing news Chris and Rebecca Hornell are currently competing in the round north
island 2 handed race. At the time of writing this article they have completed leg one with a very
close second on the line and are currently leading the fleet north towards Cape Reinga on leg 2
of 4 that takes them all the way down the west coast to Wellington. Keep up to date with their
progress on either the Kia Kaha facebook page or on yb tracking app search ssanz round north
island 2020 .Good luck team Hornell.

We have a couple of new committee members/volunteers taking the reins on the social side of
the club Jo will be looking after the weekly events ie quiz nights etc
and Sue Dunlop-Christie will be taking over as chief club function
coordinator so please if you have any ideas or are willing to help Jo
and Sue out please get in touch.

We had some work done on the club dock by a motley bunch of club
members and managed to repair the broken boards on the seaward
side, a perceived small job turned out to be somewhat of an all day
affair but a huge shout out to all those that helped out and especially
Andy Newton, without you mate we would still be down there bat-
tling.

Thanks
Chris Williams

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                                         Editors Note
  Hi Everyone, This month we are changing up the layout up a bit. After all the great feedback
  we’ve had recently through the ‘Spot the Yot’ competition - remember you have to let us know
  what you like about TellTales as well as which of our sponsors ads you found the little ‘yot’ in,
  and an increase in local businesses wanting to advertise with us. We will now be collecting all the
  ads, as well as the monthly ‘Advertorial’ on our Calendar sponsor for the month in a new place -
  the TRADE DIRECTORY at the back of the Magazine. It’s going to be easier for you to find
  the services and trades you require, they will all be in one place - the only place to search when
  looking for locals to help you out:- Sailmakers, Upholstery, Marine Electricians, Rigging Experts,
  Home Building & Maintainance, Safety at Sea, Holiday Planning, Boat Builders, Boat Brokers,
  Mechanics, Chandlers, Moorings, and General Yacht Services - It’s all there! Don’t forget if you
  are a local business owner, people are using us more and more as a reference to find trades &
  services. Not only boat related.
  Chur, Kerry.                                      Oh, and don’t be a dick by washing your boat off
                                         from your tanks then filling your tanks up at the marina!

 NOT A YOTTIE

 Hello, I’m a newbie on the scene in this northern paradise known
 as The Bay of Islands, named by Captain James Cook in 1769.
   I’m not a ‘boaty’ or a ‘yachty’ so I fill my days with other
 adventures, and thought I’d share some of them with Tell Tales
 each month.
    I’m on my own now and been living in Opua for about 18
 months. It was in the middle of winter when I came here to live
 and I didn’t know many people but in the “What’s On” column
 in the local paper there was a phone number for Indoor Bowls,
  I thought ‘I can do that’. I joined the Opua Indoor Bowling Club
 straight away and started my adventure with a group of people who admitted me with open arms,
 so warm and friendly. Every Monday evening in the winter we’d gather at the Opua village hall for
 a couple of hours bowling plus a cuppa and biccies afterwards, and at least once a month we’d have
 visitors from other local clubs or visit their venues for competitions.
   Summer arrived and no more indoor bowls, so I joined the outdoor bowling club in Waitangi,
 and what a surprise that was after playing short mat bowls on a 22 x 6 feet mat and then seeing the
 length of a natural green used for lawn bowls it was a bit of a shock. It looked immense and the
 bowls are lot heavier as well.
   However I persevered, I’m getting better at lawn bowls and once again, the club members are great.
 One thing led to another and before I knew it I had been invited to learn Mahjong and found that
 members from both of the bowling clubs were there. What an adventure that has turned out to be!
 It really is a very complicated game but I’m slowly getting my head around it.
   All of this beautiful summer weather hasn’t stopped the fruit coming in and there’s an abundance
 of peaches, pears, passion fruit and figs and friends have been very generous with their produce.
 We had some rain today, not enough to end the drought but it was very refreshing.
 That’s all for now, but there’ll be more news in next months Tell Tales.
 From Jojomo
              Jo is now helping out on the Committee with the Weekly Social Events, Ed.
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Nautical Nowledge QUIZ #17
Test your crew!! Test yourself with these five quick questions.

1.      What are the two types of bilge pumps?
        a.     Electric and hydraulic
        b.     Electric and bulb
        c.     Electric and manual
        d.     Electric and semi-hydraulic
2.      The angle between a yachts’ centreline and the direction of true North is known as…
        a.     Compass course
        b.     True course
        c.     Magnetic course
        d.     Direct course
3.      When two power driven vessels are meeting head on, both are required to alter course to
        port
        a.     True
        b.     False
4.      The size and daily bag limit for snapper in Northland is
        a.     27 cm minimum size and 10 per fisher
        b.     30 cm minimum size and 7 per fisher
        c.     35 cm minimum size and 5 per fisher
        d.     30 cm minimum size and 10 per fisher
5.

                                                      Which cardinal mark is this?
                                                      Where is the safe water?
                                                      Where is it located?

         a.    East Cardinal Marker, safe water to the West, outside Otehei Bay.
         b.    East Cardinal Marker, safe water to the East, outside Omikiwi Cove.
         c.    West Cardinal Marker, safe water to the West, outside Omikiwi Cove.
         d.    West Cardinal Marker, safe water to the West, outside Otehei Bay.
If you struggled with any of the questions or you want to expand your knowledge of sailing theory
take the free eLearning courses at International Yacht Training.
https://www.iytworld.com/courses/course-types/elearning/
                                       Answers on page 9
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 MARINA UPDATE
Marina Update – February 2020
                                                                                           Paul Stringer FNHL

                                    What a fantastic summer we have been having here in the Bay of Islands, the
                                    boatyard was incredibly busy leading up to the Christmas break and it has been
                                    great to see so many local and visiting boats out enjoying our islands.

                                    The 2020 edition of the Bay of Islands Sailing Week was another incredibly
                                    successful event with the organisers attracting a record number of boats. With
                                    some creative berthing arrangements, we managed to accommodate all the
                                    yachts in the marina including rafting up 5 Young 88’s alongside in a catamaran
                                    berth.

The recently completed Opua Wharf Pontoon has begun to attract attention, with a number of visiting superyachts
choosing to use Opua as a base for their BOI cruising program this summer. We already have solid bookings for next
summer and look forward to welcoming a record number of large yachts to the region in the leadup to the Americas
Cup 2021.

As most of you will be aware, the Far North District Council has declared level 4 water restrictions in the Opua area,
these restrictions will remain in place until we get enough rainfall to top up local water supplies.
These restrictions do impact both marina and boatyard users and we ask that everyone respects the restrictions and
assist us to conserve water and report any leaks.

                                                         ESSENTIAL                                LEVEL
                                                         USE ONLY                                   4

                                                         Full Water Restrictions are in place.

                                                         You may:
                                                            Use water for drinking and cooking
                                                             Use water to wash clothes and take showers

                                                         You may not:

                                                             Use water anywhere outside

We have managed to secure a non-potable water source that we are trucking in to enable us to continue to
waterblast boats as they haul out in the boatyard.

Many of our visiting offshore cruisers have also been enjoying the wonderful cruising weather around New Zealand
and are now starting to prepare for the next leg of their offshore voyage. We have plenty of haul out booked over
the next few months and the local marine service providers are also reporting good bookings.

If anyone has any queries with anything that is happening (or not) in the marina please do not hesitate to send me
an email paul@boimarina.co.nz or contact me through the marina office and I will endeavour to get you an answer.
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                                                                March
                               Bingo with Jo on Thursday 5th
                              Darts on Thursday 12th & 26th
        St Patricks Day Tuesday 17th - Come and join us to celebrate all things Irish:
                       Food. Music Tall stories, Drink Diddle de Dee.
                Dress up to win prizes and come on down for some Irish fun.
     Quiz night - Thursday 19th - 1930 start. come with a team or join one on the night.
                Be prepared for questions on all sorts from your Quizmaster.
                                         BBQ Cruise
    Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th- keep an eye on our Facebook page to see where we’re
                                going. (Weather permitting)

 RACING NEWS                                                                                                     Antje Muller

David Brown has won the Sanders Cup and Kingham Trophy in Wellington. Although he was
       sailing for Manawatu because that is his residence, he is representing the OCC

                                                                       Fi and I came second in the Kingham Trophy
                                                                            race and third in the Sanders Cup.

Javelin 2020 Nationals
Boat                  Helm            Crew            Sail # Club                             R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 Total Net Place
Trailblazer           David Brown     David Feek        524 Opua Cruising Club                  1 2 4 1 3 1 2 2 1 17 10                 1
Hot Gossip            Dylan Doug      Alex Koukourakis 305 Tauranga Yacht and Power Boat Club 3 1 2 2 1 3 5 3 2 22 14                   2
Riders on the Storm   Ross Shanks     Colin Shanks      380 Gisborne Sailing Club               4 3 1 4 2 4 3 1 3 25 17                 3
Insidious Fix         Peter Precey    Jake              525 Lake Pupuke Yacht Club              6 4 3 2 4 2 4 6 4 35 23                 4
OA                    Antje Muller    Fi Charman        521 Opua Cruising Club                  2 5 5 5 8 8 1 4 6 44 28                 5
Black Bart            Kez Cameron     Tim Sherry        318 Tauranga Yacht and Power Boat Club 5 6 6 6 5 5 7 5 5 50 37                  6
Nigh Nurse            Oscar Kirkham   Ben Hambling      354 Opua Cruising Club                  7 7 8 8 8 8 6 7 7 66 50                 7
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 Hey OCC Race Guy

 For goodness sake, why are you putting my handicap up all the time? It's so high now I have vertigo. Not a great
 sensation and feels like you are shaking salt in to my wounds. I am feeling frantic, as I am hotly pursuing a win in the
 series and your handicapping is like a jigsaw puzzle.

 Yours truly Unhappy One

 Dear Unhappy One
 I see you are aware of Rule No 1 “it’s always the Race Guy’s fault”. He’s a bit sick of that rule, so the Race Guy has
 asked me to introduce myself. My name is Hewlett Packard Pro Book 450 Laptop. Just call me HP Laptop for short.
 My family name comes from America, but I was born in Shanghai China. However, I am a keen Royalist. Her Majesty,
 who is a keen racing person, had the Royal Yachting Association formulate the RYA NHC automated handicap
 system. One of my UK relations managed to get me a copy at great risk to himself and resulted in a Corgi severely
 chewing his power lead. I use this software to produce the results and the updated handicaps.

 So how does the RYA specification work? Well if you do well - your handicap goes up. If you do badly -your handicap
 goes down. If you do fairly average - it pretty much stays the same. If you don’t race - it stays the same. If you DNF -
 nothing changes. If less than 3 boats - nothing changes. Anything out of whack - then 3 races should sort it.

 So you want to know more? Well here it is from the Royal Yachting Association team:
 Calculating race results
 The approved software’s will calculate results for any race as follows: C = E x NHC#
 Where;
 C = The corrected time to the nearest second
 E = The elapsed time to the nearest second (where a boat finished/ took part in a race and has an elapsed time)
 NHC# = The handicap number used in that race expressed as a Time Correction Factor (TCF)

 An example is shown in the table below.
   Boat                             NHC Handicap            Corrected
   Name        Elapsed Time (E ) number                     time               Position Points
   Boat 4                   3448                   0.964               3324           1          1
   Boat 3                   3548                   0.939               3332           2          2
   Boat 1                   3527                   0.966               3407           3          3
   Boat 2                   4610                   0.819               3776           4          4
   Boat 5                       0                  0.983                   0 DNC                 6
  [NB unless specified, the Racing Rules Appendix A is applied for other scoring issues such as DNC, Times may be in
  either seconds (as above) or in [hh:mm:ss]

 Adjusting handicaps
 The adjustment calculations for a series use known principles. For every race that a boat completes an achieved
 handicap is calculated. This achieved handicap is the handicap that if rescored, all boats would score equal 1st. A
 percentage of this achieved handicap is then applied to a boats current handicap to give the handicap to be used for
 the next race. If a boat has not taken part in a specific race, it will receive no adjustment and it will carry forward its
 current handicap to the next race. The achieved handicap for each boat in a race is calculated as follows:
 The sum of the Handicaps used by all the boats that took part in the race divided by the sum of the adjustment scales
 from boats that took part in the race, multiplied by the individual adjustment scales of boats that took part in the
 race.

 The adjustment scale for each boat is calculated as 100 divided by the elapsed time. Expressed mathematically as:
 TCFr=(ΣTCF/ΣAS)xAS

 Where:
 TCFr = Achieved handicap TCF=Handicap used and AS = Adjustment scale (100/E) E= Elapsed Time
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The achieved handicap is then compared to the handicap that was used for that race to establish if the boat over or
under achieved their handicap. The handicap to be used in the next race is then calculated by adding a percentage of
the achieved handicap and a percentage of the used handicap together to make up the handicap for the next race.
This is slightly different dependant for under or over performance. It is expressed mathematically as:
For over performance; TCFn = (TCF x 0.7) + (TCFr x 0.3)
For under performance; TCFn = (TCF x 0.85) + (TCFr x 0.15)
Where:
TCFn = The Handicap to be used in the next race TCF = The Handicap used in the race being analysed
TCFr = The Achieved Handicap in the race being analysed
 An example is shown below:
   Boat                                                      Adjustment
   Name          Elapsed Time (E ) NHC Handicap number Scale                    TCFr
   Boat 4                     3448                    0.964     0.02900232       0.997
   Boat 3                     3548                    0.939    0.028184893       0.969
   Boat 1                     3527                    0.966    0.028352708       0.975
   Boat 2                     4610                    0.819    0.021691974       0.746
   Boat 5                        0                    0.983                 0        0
   Sum of                           Sum of Adjustment
   TCF           3.688              Scale                      0.107231895
  [Individual race analysis]
   Boat                             NHC Handicap
   Name          Elapsed Time (E ) number                    TCFr              TCFn
   Boat 4                     3448                   0.964             0.997     0.974
   Boat 3                     3548                   0.939             0.969     0.948
   Boat 1                     3527                   0.966             0.975     0.969
   Boat 2                     4610                   0.819             0.746     0.808
   Boat 5                        0                   0.983                  0    0.983
  [Calculation of handicaps to be used in the next race]

Q: Will boats be able to deliberately sail badly for the first part of a season so that they get a handicap that allows
them to easily win the second part of the season?
A: As NHC is a performance handicap system the handicaps are adjusted after every race, based on the boats last
race performance. If a boat decides to deliberately sail badly its handicap will gradually reduce. A boat would need to
grossly underperform for a prolonged period of the season in order to guarantee wins later in the season. When such
a boat starts to perform to her true potential her handicap will go back up making it hard to “sand bag” her results in
a manner that will allow her to win a series/ season of races. Note also that the system is designed such that
handicaps increase faster after good performances than they fall after poor performances. Every boat will have to
continually sail to her true potential in order to win a series of races.

So that’s straightforward isn’t it? My mate Google from America has a saying “you don’t need to know how a
combustion engine works to drive a car.” He also reckons in a few years Google and I will be driving your car and not
you. Perhaps Google should be skippering your yacht.

Cheers and happy racing
HP Laptop
PS If you are still unhappy, I will turn my microphone on and you are welcome to tell my screen all about it in the
race box. Just leave the long suffering Race ANSWERS          TO inQUIZ
                                              Guy to have his beer  peace.
1.C. Electric and manual     2. B. True course       3. B. False
4. B. 30 cm minimum size and 7 per fisher (*SNA 1)
5. D. West Cardinal Marker, safe water to the West, outside Otehei Bay.
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 THE MJO                                                                         ‘MetBob’ McDavitt

When I was a weather forecaster in Fiji back in the 1970s we would draw the isobars and streamlines by
hand. As part of this process we would look at a weather map for 12 hours ago and write down the air
pressure change for each observing station, blue for positive and red for negative. The idea was for us
to quickly identify regions of falling pressure, as these often end up in squalls and maybe in developing
cyclones. I used to import special “auditor” pencils that where blue at one end and red at the other to
help me with this task. In those days the only place I could find with these pencils available was the old
Printing and Book shop at Ferguson and Osborn’s in Lambton Quay, Wellington.

Imagine my surprise when I started to notice that I was using mainly either the red end or the blue end
of the pencil for a few weeks at a stretch. The pressures would slowly fall over much of the South Pacific
for a few weeks then slowly rise for a few weeks, and this pattern would drift eastwards. I had stumbled
onto some kind of pattern, and this intrigued me to look at the cloud imagery as seen by some early
meteorological satellites. I drew maps, each averaged over 10 days showing the % of cloudiness over
the South Pacific in 10% divisions. I did this for a month and then reviewed the maps. Sure enough,
merged in with the South Pacific convergence zone, a zone of increased convection moved east across
the South Pacific for a week or more, followed by a zone of decreased cloudiness, and then this pattern
repeated.

I had stumbled upon what is now called the MJO or Madden-Julian Oscillation. This was discovered by
Dr. Roland Madden and Dr. Paul Julian of the American National Centre for Atmospheric Research
(NCAR) when they were studying tropical wind and pressure patterns. This was published in 1972 in the
Journal of Atmospheric Science (Volume 29, pages 1109-1123.)
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   BOB MCDAVITT’S WEATHER CORNER

So the MJO is characterised by a wet period followed by a dry period and each orbit eastwards around
the globe lasts around 30-60 days and takes a week of two to cross each region. Each new MJO seem s
to start just east of Africa, travel east, and fade when it gets east of the dateline, so doesn’t affect South
America. . For scientific analysis purpose each orbit of the MJO is divided into 8 phases or regions, with
Phase 1 measuring signals from a fading MJO in the east pacific and the starting of a new MJO just east
of Africa. Our region is Phase 6 and 7.

You can see up-to-date Phase diagrams labelled as 200-hp velocity Potential forecast or RMM1 RMM2
forecast at www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/MJO/forca.shtml

But I prefer something easier to view, related to cloudiness.

The Outgoing longwave radiation OLR is that part of the solar radiation that is reflected by the earth
back out to space. It is low when the atmosphere is full of thick cloud (Blue= bubbly) or high when the
sky is relatively clear (yellow/red = mellow). An up-to-date OLR series of maps can be seen at

www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/MJO/forca.shtml (scroll down past the Phase
diagram).
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OMG IT’S THE MJO!                                                             ‘MetBob’ McDavitt

  Low OLR (blue areas) can be taken as high-risk areas for Cyclone formation, so the above map shows a
  likely cyclone (or two) in the South Pacific area from now to-29 February.

              Bob McDavitt for Tell Tales
  Bob McDavitt is the weather guru that uses /\/\
     etBoB to provide weather information for
  cruising sailors, primarily for those in the South
                        Pacific.
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                                                     Series Race 8                                                                                 Race 6
                           9                      10         Total Yacht 11                     12                         13 Overnight BBQ   14 Overnight BBQ         15
                                                             Care Twilight                           NSR Twilight Series      cruise             cruise
                                                     Series Race 9                                   Race 5
                                                                                                                                                   15:00 RBC Womens
                                                                                                                                                   Race 2 of 3
                           16 Committee           17                            18              19                     20                     21 12:00 RBC       22
                                                                Total Yacht                                 Kiwi Sheds
                              Meeting                           Care Twilight                        I      Rum Race 11                          W/End Race 5
                                                        Series Race 10                                                                           Dave Henderson
                                                                                                                                                 Memorial Trophy
                                St Patricks Day
                           23                     24                            25              26                         27                 28   F&P
                                                                                                                                                                       29
                                                                 Total Yacht
                                                                Care Twilight                        NSR Twilight Series                           Interclub Race 3
                                                        Series Race 11                               Race 6                                        OCC Start
                           30                     31
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