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$2,400 for the pair New Cost is over $4,000 for the Ocean Series winches.

Great Condition Self Tailing Lewmar Ocean 44 AST winches in excellent working condition. These winches have at least 90% of their life left and is only being replaced to install a larger new winch. I have a matched pair. The Base has a diameter of 170mm Height is 190mm The first three pictures were taken October 22 The Ocean series of Lewmar winches is very robust and superior to the EVO winches (Lewmar EVO range of winches) The Ocean range can all be stripped from the top for servicing without having to unbolt/remove the base. The Ocean 44 winches can also be converted to electric using Lewma

In case it's of any use to someone searching for Imperial 316 Stainless,... The best source I found was Ausstain https://www.austain.com.au/ Family owned since 1977, they have good contacts and do not source from China (mostly from known sources with a good history in Taiwan) The 1-1/4 x 2" were $27 AUS$ per hundred. I think they supply other suppliers. Friendly and knowledgeable And Cater's inital price estimate came way down on these for the slot-head style. Cater are great folks.

Things are progressing at Norsand. We hauled the boat about two months ago and Melanie and I spent two weeks pulling all the deck and skin fittings, then stripped the mast and boom in another two days. The yard labor took another two weeks doing some fiberglass work and the painters have been at things for 4-5 weeks. Only issue so far... We warned the painters that the mast used an Automotive paint system. This paint was still in very good condition and we we are only repainting to get rid of the crazy metallic green color on our spars. They did a wet rag with solvent test on

https://marinehowto.com/bed-it-tape/ Any idea what makes a butyl formulation more suitable to Marine use? Read this from the manufacturer mentioned above: " After this article was published, we were forced to develop a marine specific butyl based hybrid elastomeric sealant that was specifically formulated and tested for marine use. The product is called Bed-It Tape and can be found in the; Marine How To Web Store. Hamilton Marine and Marine Outfitters in Canada are also distributors of Bed-It Tape. Sales of Bed-It Tape directly fund this site and keep it free. Please understand that

Advark, Thanks for doing that; I just checked in Australia StainlessFastener.com.au ... The first hit on Google with a Pan Head Phillips 1/4" x 2" NC in 316 Stainless (posi is not made anymore according to this Company) $0.58 each (BTW Cater Marine had slotted head at $4.00/each)

Nope... Fortress says they can't even source them.

Anzor does not have them, I've also tried CMI Fasteners, SteelMasters, FastTrade, no luck. Starting to think they are not available in NZ.

We're not familiar with the New Zealand suppliers. And We just heard from Cater Marine in Opua that they could not locate some types of Imperial Machine screws that we need a few hundred of... (In particular; 316 Stainless Pan Head Posi (Phillips) 1/4" X 2" NC Machine Screws... as well as a few others.) Do you have suggestions for a fastener company that carries a broad range of Imperial 316 Stainless

So to follow up on how this all turned out. We have decided to do the paint work here in the first world paint realm of New Zealand. The best contractors in Fiji were painting in tarped or heat shrunk tents that had earthen bottoms held 30-80 cm off the ground which could readily have admitted sand and sanding dust on an afternoon breeze. We also found that only two of the half dozen contractors there were capable of even writing back and then there was only one that followed thru but then never sent the estimate. All in all... not the sort of experience we were seeking for our trimaran. Mayb

and how do you stop condensation between the layers? After being on that passage from Tonga in 2019 with winds steady 45 gusting 65... I can't even begin to imagine going out on deck with a piece of plywood, it's just nuts. And the idea of only sending some screws thru whatever your skin and foam core might constitute... is an absurd idea on that sort of hull construction. This story (for me) is a sobering reminder of how vulnerable salon windows have become in modern yacht design. Even our Farrier with a 4 to 8 cm rabbited recess and screws every 24cm seems wholly inadequate.

I just noticed an article in STUFF (17 minutes ago) about this possibly a report from Maritime New Zealand released today?... Has the Coast Guard released it's final report? Anyone have a link? Thanks

Just heard back... Our boat is "too beamy" for Fusion Marine, so they are out

So Far,, the 3 leads in Fiji have had only one response (good responsive communication with this one) but they are unable to give us a referral on even a single New Zealand Flagged boat that they have done. I'm not necessarily impressed.

Anyone know about this shed or Contact info for Jon since he will know the owner.

Good article, Do you have a business name or contact information?

Hibiscus wrote to say that they can not handle our beam

I would not let a house mover touch our boat with a 10 meter pole! We've had a scissor lift move the boat from the boat ramp at Opua Marina to the boat yard. The experienced fellow (JJ) flexed our hull enough that a scupperway through the integrated water tanks cracked. The entirety of the Starboard water tank leaked out into the bilge. We had to pull things apart and glass it back together. That wasn't that hard to do... but the idea of going down the road is not something I am wiling have done to it after that experience. The movers accept no responsibility any damages; as per the co

Trying them now... we do want a high quality job without runs or brush marks. But what is most important is not 'gloss' and car like paint, but longevity is very important. We absolutely need this job to last ten year+ (or current AWL Grip paint went 21 years)

not really... it's all the exposure to solvents, primers, constant sanding on my compromised overhead reach, that I'm not interested in repeating. I've done this work before alone on a 37 foot mono-hull and also a 21 footer. The 21' boat was way more work because of the gelcoat failure. Our hull is in good and fair enough shape that I don't think the time commitment is in the 47K range.

Thanks for sharing... this is why I am trying to do our due diligence here and locate an individual painter reference by accurate name and ID. I am very hopeful that locating a current good reference in Fiji is possible, or certainly worth trying to do. Everyone here has been very helpful, but we haven't got 'that name' yet.

...and I repainted the non-skid in 2017 with 2-part AlexSeal poly so all the non-skid is not quoted...

actually the beams would add another 1/3.... so 2X the area of a low freeboard mono-hull