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A rubber cutless bearing will transfer less noise and vibration than a hard bearing , having said that it does sound like a prop issue and maybe too soft engine mounts. As the boat moves the shaft maybe leaning on the stern gland, this is where shaft seals on a glass tube have and advantage -moving with the shaft.

The only post comprehensively in touch with reality.

Oh, and if your boat is insured, the only way you are going to get the insurance co to sort it out is by wrecking it. You can't phone PIC and say I don't want my boat anymore, can you guys dispose of it for me?

That sounds great in theory, but in practice, it turns into a flying spaghetti monster. And it is not about cost, although that is a factor. The issue is compliance. Can you tell me where you can haul a boat out and break it down? Will Pier 21 do it? Gulf Harbour? Last I heard it was a struggle to get those places to haul a boat just to do the antifoul. If you don't have insurance, is there anywhere that will haul you out? let alone then allow you to smash the boat to bits there? Have you ever tried finding a dump truck operator to take a smashed boat to a landfill? It

This. And yes, I fully agree the solution is a wrecking facility. Not more rules. Requiring compulsory insurance wont do anything for the many hundreds of already abandoned boats around the district. Erm, they are already abandoned... It wont do anything for all the people who's boat is at end of life, and want to get rid of it in some sort of responsible way. There are a lot of people that are in that camp. Currently, the only option is to give it away to someone else. That doesn't actually solve the problem of the end of life boat, it just shifts it to a different person.

We are led by people who think all problems can be solved with another rule. There are at least 120 derelict boats in Auckland alone, which is a result of the cost of maintenance and the loss of interest in old boats. Owners die, families dont care etc. The solution is a wrecking facility, one that is not profit motivated to get rid of the ever increasing numbers of unwanted vessels. I was involved in helping the harbour master turn a mid sized wooden boat into a pile of scrap, it took an hour and it was all gone into a skip except for the keel and some metal to the scrap dealer. Fibregla

Insurance companies not insuring is why most of the boats have gone from the swing moorings. Insurance companies have ruined the kiwi pastime of affordable DIY boating!!

That would be inconsistent with requirements of owning a car. You don't have to have insurance for a car, so why a boat? And there is far far more social cost with uninsured car drivers doing a runner and not putting things right when they cause damage. People conflate needing to pay for damage you cause with needing to have insurance. That is a nonsense. You just need to be able to pay for the damage you cause. How you pay for that is entirely up to you. All the money you have spent in your life on insurance products could go into investment accounts, and you use that to pay fo

The underlying social problem is many boats simply cannot get insurance while others face often ridiculous and expensive hurdles.

Bit of pseudo-legal going on in that article. Person in authority makes statement that sounds like it is mandatory for all boats to have insurance. There isn't any legal requirement to have insurance. Especially not 'wreck insurance'. I've never heard of it until that article. It is correct that you have to pay to have a wreck of yours removed from the environment. But how you manage that is up to you. You could just pay cash if you wanted. Or do it yourself. I've helped two owners of wrecked boats do it themselves. Just because people don't have insurance doesn't mean they

Should be condition of owning a yacht/motorboat/car etc minimum 3rd party.