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If you soda blast then interprotect you should be set for a long time. But you knew that. Alternatively the perfect time to go coppercoat and don't do it again for 10yrs.

I never make fun of anybody that got / gets into strife on the water - just seems like an invitation to karma of the wrong kind.

I've used vivid on and around my strut area, along side 3 other paints as on the hull in various combinations over the last 3 years, trying to be a bit scientific about it. the vivid was crap any way you look at it, smooth for racing but needs cleaning way more than anything else and barnacles love it.

Excuse me while I don the rose tinted specs and chuck in a couple of cents; I sailed on a few Ravens back in the 70s. Our family had Cleo for a while. Had lots of fun on them, they're a good solid boat. Some things you might like consider especially if you're larger than average; the quarter berth access is tight, there is about 6' headroom at the foot of the companionway, taller than that and you're on a permanent stoop. They are quite wet sailing to windward in a slop (far more than my Harmonic was). I never liked the standard layout (Cleo had a dinette, that although small, worked quit

I believe their point is lets get on, light winds or heavy, we're here to race, and we have a good momentum (4/0 proves that). Tough sh*t i know but every minute they are delayed is another minute that Ineos have to find the hat and the rabbit and I don't think that's particularly fair. although you could imagine LR are not sitting around twiddling their thumbs..

Go for a snorkel with the schools of 10lb plus snapper and shoals of trevally at the Poor Knights to see how reserves can work. We swam with a turtle there this Christmas for 15 minutes or so which was a first for me in New Zealand. 30 years ago we caught good crays at Waiheke, scallops in Oneroa and there were schools of kingfish at spray rock. It needs a rest for sure.