Frank

Agree, how long does it take you to get familiar with a boats vital systems ? quite a bit of cruising in my experience. I suppose if you are confident the boat has been well maintained you could take the owner along for insurance ie he/she knows what to do when something fails.

Works for me, great site because it combines land and marine, thx for the tip !

Fantastic value, reminds me of a comment I heard recently from a very successful local designer that for a yard to build a Townsend 32 today would set you back $1.2 million and something like say a Senior Reacher 36 would be circa $1.5 million. A wooden launch owner I know was quoted 30K to repaint the cabin sides, yes just the cabin sides!

Good vid that !

If you can get one of these long handled versions or otherwise stick a chopped off broom handle up the shank of a short one . There is supposed to be a knob on the top near the blade but someone has removed it grrrr.

A bit shy of your power requirements but our club newsletter has this add Near new engine, sail drive and accessories Beta 25 with 170 hours comes with sail drive, prop, electrical harness, instrument panel, an isotherm 24 litre hot water cylinder and fittings ( never been installed). $16,000 ono contact Mark Ralph Smith 021 382377

Coopers Strip Club apparently if you believe the blurb, I think you still have to do all that cling film faff etc, otherwise just buy a packet of linbide scraper blades and take the sharp corner off then have at it. You can easily adapt the handle to a vacuum with ingenuity and gaffer tape. https://coopersstripclub.com/marine-lpp1/#:~:text=Coopers has been used for,Paint%2C Enamel Paint%2C Acrylic Paint%2C

Bit of a longshot here but worth a try, I'm doing a half model of a Spencer Saraband , I've found a general layout view on the interweb but frame stations are needed too I don't need the drawing itself Just a half decent photo I can paste in CAD. chrs

Yes a certain cynicism is healthy if it leads you to research your doubts but a weary cynicism can be the opposite its the kind that comes from deep distrust where you expect all people/companies to be cynical and colluding for their own selfish needs (a contradiction in terms ?) this is the opposite of critical thinking.

I think they need to develop a tweaked set of rules for sail GP, we can all debate the intricacies of who was in the right or the wrong but its kind of academic when the course seems designed to create a high risk of carnage and your favoured team is taken out of the event or even several events by the yachting equivalent of a fender bender. Crash n Bash plays havoc with series continuity but perhaps the non sailing audience likes it. I found the AC 40 regatta in Caligari was better viewing.

"People also forget they are competing with each other for market share – if they found the magic bullet they would absolutely use it." That's the critical thinking aspect, if such an ingredient was available and legal, even if it only lifted performance by 10% it would be in use by all the manufacturers.

Dinghy and solar panels, is it a live-aboard ?

Agree Keep your critical thinking hat on and do you research although to be fair there is a lot of Junk Science papers being exposed. I still wouldn't substitute anecdotes for evidence though except for the supplements shilled on walk back radio, my mate swears by them eh !

Agree, I'm using it on repairs to my weatherboard house , buts its my el-cheapo DIY thinned resin version :-), nice Dinghy BTW

From what I have read nature has wired us for pattern recognition presumably for survival, this trait enables us to identify structure in raw information. When this process gets out of whack it can send the mind down an obsessive, hyper-focused research loop aka the "rabbit hole". It perhaps explains why highly educated and otherwise rational people can hold utterly irrational beliefs. Today's internet algorithms quickly create an echo chamber which no doubt makes an ancient problem a lot worse.