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Tried that -- too aggressive

I ended up biting the bullet and got a Festool Rotex....the price will leave me in cold sweats for a while, but I guess I can always sell it post my boat restoration. I bought a few $300 sanders over the years and they just proved to be cr@p. 'Boats, Bokes, and Bank Accounts' ..... could be a good book .... Horror genre probably LOL

Just as long as it takes. Guess I could always sell the tool once finished. Got a link to the specific Rupes tool?

...and if someone has a similar tool to sell 2nd hand, let me know. Cheers

When I say "NZ equivalent" I am talking about an equivalent brand sold here. The $300 palm size Bosch and Makita Random orbitals are simply not taking the paint off the inside interior of the hull of my GRP yacht, even with 40 grit. Cheers for any help here....

There are also a couple of 'Junk' rigged yachts on Trademe - but your post makes the distinction

In the article they more or less acknowledge it was the big ships that caused the issue, yet they want to penalise boaties and yachites when the horse has clearly bolted. And you are right Harry, and in fact, they could close the Hauraki Gulf for a decade and the natural currents and wind changes would still embed the weed. It is a waste of time trying to fight it - I know what I am saying has been said before, but you just shake your head at some of the idiots out there that call for this banning thing.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/trouble-in-paradise-why-some-want-this-holiday-hot-spot-off-limits-to-boaties-this-summer/OROPQEAN7VDEDK5T74H3R3XKJE/

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I've never used Okahu Bay Hardstand....but living in Auckland most of my life,one of the highlights of driving or walking the Tamaki Drive was always going past and seeing the yachts in their cradles....it just adds something to that area

R.Shack came along and towed them claiming salvage rights? 😁

As a former Bogan, I doth protest! Surely it makes for more fun to examine what species of skunks PoshParnell crowd have been eating as delicacies lately?!

I work down near Quay St a few times. per week and get a good waft of the Parnell Poo Pipe throughout the day. The smell is shocking. What the hell have the rich pr#cks in Parnell been eating lately? Whatever it is, it is enough to bring tears to one's eye's let me tell yuh!

Herald has the details. Very sad situation. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/stricken-fiji-yacht-sailor-clive-nothlings-widow-wants-husband-home/SYV7ZKBGMNERHMBYUXSCNEFR6E/

Another "atmospheric river' heading to BOP this time....it just goes on and on https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/weather-news/132999308/atmospheric-river-over-bay-of-plenty-could-bring-one-month-of-rainfall-in-just-24-hours

This summer will be fantastic, with following Sou winds when going north, that will turn on key to WNW when going south.....and it will do this as I sold my other boat that I was campaigning for another that needs fixing.....

and same with full keel....my boat technically has a long fin keel with a cut away forefoot, but you rarely will see that description given... and then we have "rope" v "line". "rode v scope" "Roe v Wade"....woops - wrong forum.

Here is a case in point on this Trademe advert: "The topsides are suffering from a lack of paint and varnish and while retrievable at the moment, it is sacrilege for me to let her languish much longer" https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/boats-marine/yachts/keeler/listing/4295481284 He's definitely meaning the cabin / cabinsides, but refers to them as topsides....

Lazy Sunday arvo, and just thought I'd raise a topic that has intrigued me for years. I grew up in a non-yachting family, never belonged to a yacht club, not part of the boat building or design scene in NZ any way....I learnt nautical terms from overseas books, American and British, some European, and in all the overseas literature 'topsides' are the sides of the boat above the water line, ie the sides of the hull above the water. In NZ I have come to realise when sailors and boatbuilders talk about 'topsides' they are talking about the deck and or cabin. This has lead to some amus

I saw the 7Sharp piece. To be fair, the Neville Nobody yapping about how everyone should have to have a licence to take a boat out on the water, did mention he was talking about motor boats. But, despite my disdain for some stinkpotter "captains" I feel licensing is a huge mistake, a bureaucratic nightmare, and will eventually sliver its way to the sailing community too.... and, it is just the filthy few of the stinkpot crowd that give them a bad name. And to be fair, some sailors are knobheads too, me included - ive done some dumb things on the water, and later reminisced and gave myse

Correct. Structural floors will be glassed in now that the bilge water tank has been removed.