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Shouldn't Cat 1 - 3 be evolved then to have a look at minimising the risk of Platino like accidents that seem to keep on happening? I mean, what is more important, to make sure you have three buckets, or to have a set up which minimizes to near zero your chance of getting killed by your rigging?

Bed-it is one product that lives up to the hype. The only thing you have to be careful about is using solvents around it...if you have penchant for walking round your deck with a turps laden rag cleaning this 'n that, just be careful around fittings that have Bed-it.

100% Raven 26. Cheap, Safe, good headroom, an ideal learner keeler

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....