Good Point, Port Tack, close hauled, racing on a Wednesday night, Lyttelton Harbour. Phil at the tiller, 1st place on handicap that night. We won a bottle of rum
Good Point, Port Tack, close hauled, racing on a Wednesday night, Lyttelton Harbour. Phil at the tiller, 1st place on handicap that night. We won a bottle of rum!
Good Point, Port Tack, close hauled, racing on a Wednesday night, Lyttelton Harbour.
Good Point, 'Goose Winged' racing on a Wednesday night, Lyttelton Harbour.
Getting ready for a sail, Naval Point Club, Lyttelton, Mike & Trevor
This was taken on the 2008 charity race with Smith City. The club and yacht owners raised over $30,000 on this event
Good Point at the Naval Point jetty before her new name was attached, she used to be called Pugwash!
Starboard view on Lyttelton harbour
Ready for an evening sail - Good Point - Lyttelton Harbour
The Port cabin winch is used for hauling up the mainsail
The new 4" diameter compass has been fitted to comply with MSA safety standards, note it records the vessels healing angle too.
Our safety equipment, EPIRB, First Aid, Life Jackets, Rocket flares, Hand flares, Smoke flares, Radar reflector, Motoring signals, Fire extinguishers, Fire & bailing buckets, Touches, Charts, Almanacs, MOB lights, Safety harness's, Grapnel, Nav equipment and more!!!
Our MSA Operations Manual for the vessel, its over 80 pages!, to the left is our ships log, all commercial vessels have to maintain both of these documents.
Our control panel and VHF radio. Our callsign is ZMT 3885
Storage of life jackets, safety harness's, Rig cutters are stored in the Starboard lockets
This is a view of the companion way & Galley.
Here you can see the hull construction on Good Point. She is constructed of double diagonal kahiketea over stringers and beams, copper rivets and epoxy coated with a fibre glass outer. This gives a beautiful craftsman finish-feel inside and a modern low-maintenance look outside.
A view of the cabin from the companionway. There is 6'2" standing room.