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the cost of interprotect is cheaper than the cost of your time reapplying after a failed coating. If you are goi9ng back to a bare hull, two/three coats of inter followed by three coats of whatever antifoul you choose, hotcoating as you go ie recoat when the previous layer is tacky, not dry.
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My pleasure Clipper. Its cathartic.
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The Recovery Position I later learnt that one of the things we did that evening was kedging. This was interesting, because I could do it without knowing what it was called, and it turns out I did it pretty bloody well. It was probably the only thing I did well that night. As SO slowly listed on the falling tide, we tried all the stuff you see or hear about. We gathered at the bow and tried bouncing the hull with the engine in full reverse. Hilarious, but useless. Bro and I swung the boom toward the now-correctly-identified channel and climbed out to the end of it. No re
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Been trying to talk Bro into that one for the last few weeks. Great looking unit and very obviously loved. A steal at the ask imho.
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Don't knock launches. Two of them attempted to tow us off that afternoon. Brave but ultimately fruitless attempts.
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Thanks Lateral. I'm here to entertain in this thread. Hopefully some learnings to take away as well.
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an L section ali track would do it if you don't have quite enough width. Otherwise, everything lateral has said.
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Navigation Marks, GPS and the Wisdom of Wives The Wairoa River is a narrow muddy creek filled with cow piss and estuary water. It meanders its way from the bottom of the Hunua Hills, past Clevedon and onward to the sea picking up mud, cowshit, and a not entirely savoury smell as it goes. The river squeezes out, like molten toothpaste in the words of Neil Finn, pushing through a typical inner harbour mud and sand bar before finally relaxing and fanning out into the Waitemata. It would be SO's home at Brooklands Boating Club about 1.5km from the river mouth. Hell of a change for a y
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Relatively minor sugery. Poor fitting of the spray dodger frame some 15 odd years ago led to a small soft patch in the cabin top. After thinking it through a bit, I decided a hole saw was the appropriate response. 4 layers of 6mm ply fills the holes, all now epoxied into place. Yes, the segments were alternated for seal and strength. The dry images are of the dry fit - once fit test was done, they were coated both sides with epoxy as the went in. Each ply insert is 64mm diameter, so not a big area. Tomorrow is boatcloth and more epoxy on both sides, paint next weekend,
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Surveys and Sea Trials in a Level 4 Lockdown You can't. Wait seven weeks until the end of the Level 3, then you can. During that time, be very thankful the seller is paying for the marina berth. Whats to say? The survey happened on the floating dock at Westhaven, that was interesting for a newbie. A man with a little hammer beat out a rhythmic tattoo up, down, and across the hull once the dock guys had finished blasting 12 months of Westhaven Weed away. Rudders were wiggled and pulled; prop shafts were shoved laterally and longitudinally while the vendor installed
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and the constant rattling from that roller bearing crank! OMFG. Only the french would do that.
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rumour has it you could get wingnuts fitted on the bellhousing as a factory option.
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were you never subjected to an HC Viva? What a shitbox they were...
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presume you know these guys... https://www.kilwellfibretube.co.nz/products/marine/
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^nice write-up! Good to get all the big mistakes made in the first fifteen minutes or so eh... Love Parau Bay. Excellent hill for racing down on a skateboard!
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Negotiate Like a Champ Ever bought a carpet in a Morroccan marketplace? Haggled in Bangkok for a 3-hour cruise on a klong in a longtail boat? Been harrassed to buy a leather jacket in a London street market? If so, you are qualified to make an offer on a yacht. Here's how it went. So, there we were. Thursday 19 March 2020. Covid was threatening NZ, airline travel had gone through the floor. No-one knew what was going on, and we had just looked at a yacht with a view to buying it. We thought about it from the seller's point of view. SO was sitting in a $600/mth marina ber
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The First Viewing, including a short treatise on how to Read Between the Broker's Lines Brokers are interesting folk. I once heard it said not necessarily in jest that if someone tells you they are a Real Estate Agent its probably just a face-saving way to tell you they are unemployed. Brokers seem to be similar. The vendor's broker approached us like we were long-lost old school friends meeting in a run-down and barely functional pub we used to frequent. His eye told me he thought it was our round, and would be most of the evening. He waxxed lyrical on the pleasures of his o
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That Cav 26 would be a great little Harbour boat! Rest of them are pretty ugly...
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measured before and after a full scrape and anti-foul. Engine (Yanmar 2QM20) struggled to get the yacht (10m Spencer) up to 5.5kt at around 2,800rpm. Now does 6kt @ 2,000rpm Hull wasn't heavily fouled, but had the surface finish of a 15 year old schoolboy's face. Its not exactly a baby's bum now, but much smoother than before. The prop was probably the biggest contributor - lots of small barnies before, now smooth and prop-speeded
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absolutely makes a difference. I was a dirty blaspheming non-believer, and then we did a full bum clean and anti foul on Stepping Out. Night and day.
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...and why a Spencer? Why not? The choice of a Spencer was part happenstance, part a convergence of prejudice's and prior experience. Mrs Aardvark's family history was all aboard Spencers - 28, the 35, then 45 footers. Her Da' was a firm believer in JS's designs and probably would have gone on to commissioning a 65 had the dreaded Big C not intervened and buggered up proceedings. I understand his coffin was a narrow plywood box, but that may be apochryphal. I like timber as a material. In my estimation, plastics are fine for enhancements, but the core of an item should
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This is the story of our purchase and ownership of Stepping Out. It may take some time, will have twists and turns, could move beyond a PG rating from time to time, and will no doubt have real sailors and hardened people of the sea laughing at the incompetence and naivety of beginners. The story is only a year and a bit old at this stage. Who knows how long it will run for. Time will tell. It will be episodic - drop in for a giggle when you need to feel better about something that has gone wrong, because my story will be either dumber or more expensive than yours. At the top lets
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Possibly fits a GM series as well, do your own research. Bolts to the front of the engine allowing you to manually crank and start the engine in the case of an electrical failure. Never used on ours, no chain or lower crankshaft gear. Free, freight paid by you if you don't pick up.
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next weekend looks great though. Just in time for some exterior maintence while on the mooring
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I was referring to this bit. You made my earlier point about FB's advantages real.
