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The one with the best maintenance record and all signs of being loved. After that, get everyone aboard and move around the cabin and cockpit. See who falls over who, who smacks their head, who gets stuck in the head or can't get into it etc. That should eliminate at least one of the three. Lastly, the additional equipment and features. Fridge, fitted GPS/plotter, quality cooker, anchor and all the lines (not really additional equipment on a yacht, but often overlooked). Then survey.

Yup - been through all that thanks BP! Upside - it seems everyone at PYBC has either owned or knows of a Saraband at some stage. They are all coming out of the (ply)woodwork... Its telling that they all say they loved them but none own one now....

Update from the op who is far more impoverished than others in this thread. OK, turns out that we are going to fully strip the existing layers. Every time I wet-sanded, a new pressure bubble and crack formed in the upper layers (about five different layers of af) Looks like it hasn't bonded at about layer 3 but was dealt with by heavy application of the next coat. I started scraping today with a carbide scraper, but, fork that. Soda blasting is arranged for next weekend. Do it once eh. Plenty to get on with - a new TP32 auto-tiller, the solar panel, and an isotherm fridg

sanding antifouling sucks.

Update. Hauled out this morning and waterblasted mainly slime and light clusters of tiny barnacles of what looks/acts/smell like #5 that is at least 2 years old. I was pleasantly surprised. A big buildup on the bottom leading edge of the keel and one water intake (toilet) has a mussel growing in it, other than that just what you would hope for after a year of indolent disrespect by the owner! The #5 has been applied over something else and has not bonded well in a couple of locations. After discussion, we have decided to sand and feather and apply primocon in those locations,

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Near-misses are a pita in reporting environments. Its pretty hard to define. I could write up 20 or so near miss reports based on my 20km daily commute each day. OTOH, if your insurance company was to get a claim from you and then uncover a history of unreported indiscretion, that could be a problem. Lose/lose as they say

must be australians

Yay for L3 - not a hope of getting out until Thursday when it will be calm bright and blue! Which is good because work became interesting yesterday at about 12.43pm... We are tied up on the work berth atm and riding it out.

no doubt!

what you get when sub-ed is outsourced to "AI"

decision made. thanks for the input everyone

We are on the hard at Panmure for a eek next week. After waterblasting and scraping/sanding, should we: throw caution to the wind and just slap the new a/f over the unknown worn old a/f? or run a coat of primer over the old and THEN apply the new a/f? We have been recommended #5 or War Paint. What's the community's feeling on these in a inter-tidal envoronment (Clevedon River, similar to Weiti)

Hi all - doing a haulout at Panmure on Monday 15th February, but it would be really helpful to reposition from Clevedon on Sunday afternoon. If you have a mooring available for a one-night rental payable in cash grog or kindness, let me know - 021 676 530. 10m keeler, 1.7m draft. 3-ish tonne.

...and don't even begin costing your time into it... It'd break your accountant's little black heart. If they had one.

yup. Vernacular - I'm unsure. There was a short-lived NZ sitcom called Buck House, but the term predates that.

Weekend was great thanks! Chamberlain Bay Saturday night - the view across to the riding lights of a packed Home Bay was spectacular at 11pm. Home Bay to Coromandel (Te Kouma Wharf) the next day - it was meant to be a no wind day but we had a good run on a first leg to just off Happy Jack, and only started the iron sail as we turned into Coro Harbour. Stooged across to Whanganui Island and had a pleasant lunch, swim and sunning before heading over to Te Kouma Harbour for the night. There had to be over 150 craft of various types there. Today, our first spinnaker run on Stepping Ou

While you may not be looking for a project, any yacht in the size and price range you are looking will be a project. You can expect that at least some if not the majority of major components are in their last few seasons of life, that paint finishes etc will need addressing within the season or ceratainly by next, that there will be some non-structural and maybe a hidden structural issue that will need work. A survery will help, but a good survey will also cost 8% of your budget. KM is on the money in the running costs thinking. Insurance, mooring, fuel, the inevidible breakages.

works fine on a glass-over-ply Spencer too. I might have been lucky and chose a spot with no voids. Uses an airmar in-hull transducer silconed to the hull and filled with radiator inhibitor fluid (the green stuff) as per the manufacturer's instructions. The kelp and mussels on the outside do tend to make readings a bit hit and miss.

whenever anyone questions the cost of something, my first reaction is to work out how much it would cost to do otherwise. In with a supplier yesterday buying some odd-sized but necessary high tensile bolts. When they apologetically told me the price, my reply was that I couldn't make them for 1/10 that cost so its good value. Swimming a mile would probably cost more than $6 so your yacht is cheap and will get cheaper on a per mile basis!

The democratisation of boating has its problems eh. I suspect that the personality types attracted to jetskis are exactly the types who shouldn't be allowed them. I could be generalising though!

Or the mistake we collectively made (and to which you refer or allude) in not providing suitable treatment and rehabilitation to prisoners. Without condoning this guy's historical or recent behaviour, we have to assume its the result of a less-than-ideal mental condition. Our prisons do a very poor job of fixing this - they belong to the Department of Corrections after all, not the Department of Health (who, going futher down the rabbit hole, seem to prioritise mental health in that waaaaaay down the back of the bus kind of way). Consequently, the mad are treated as bad and that te

We've had three winter trips to Japan. They eat differently (well,duh!). We ate like locals, not in tourist restaurants but in small street places. One memorable meal was in a bar with a dirt floor. In a ski resort. Another under a railway line and included pig ears and a range of stuff that was best not to ask. Portions are smaller. Protien portions are tiny. Even cheap food is exquisitely presented. You eat with your eyes for sure in Japan. We currently have a 25yo chinese guy living with us. He is astounded at our waste, the poor quality of the ingredients and the

An error of interpretation - read my second sentence without assuming a comma after the words "healthy" and "unhealthy". The fact is, we are unhealthy because of reasons far removed from and beyond our access to seafood. The Japanese are healthy, but not because of their seafood access.

A coincidental relationship is not causal one. We are not unhealthy because we have depleted our seafood resources, and the Japanese are not healthy because of theirs.