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Can anyone tell me email address to change crew please?

I put down some of that wood look alike Lino in my last boat, looked great, easy to clean, good grip. Carpet shops usually sell offcuts of the stuff cheap.

I have also started painting parts of my cockpit in toplac but am now regretting it, its alot of work to be repeating every 5 years. Is there some sort of barrier coat that can be applied between the toplac and a two pot undercoat? Kind of like a Primicon thing?

That damn bird cant sh*% on me from up here, can he!!!

I had squeaky floorboards where they were rubbing against one another and the cabinetry in the boat. I marked everywhere there was chafe, noted how tight it was in each spot then took them out and cut 1-2mm off from each chafing spot. This worked well. I cut them using a straight edge, a few clamps and a router with a copy cutter. Worked well. Before cutting them down I tried the fastmount system and it made the sqeaking worse in some places.

We have recently installed an oven. It has changed everything, we can now precook meals at home, freeze them and just bung them in the oven half an hour before dinner time. We put them in those foil trays and throw them out after dinner. Very few dishes, no preparation time. It makes life on board alot less of a chore and gives us more quality family time. The biggest part of kids being happy on board is mum being happy on board. Oh, and beach time, wear them out!!! its fun for all.

" I think if we are going to do the spreader jump we need a bigger boat!"

Anyone have an old hand crank for a Yanmar 2GM20 they want to sell? PM me, Thanks, Ross.

Thanks guys, I might do something in between and leave it two days, sand, clean and overcoat with Toplac. Its only part of my cockpit so not too critical, I would be alot fussier it it were the hull. Also I already have some Durapox primer and am thinking of using that instead of interprotect. Toplac specs does say it is suitable over any substrate...

Hi, Does any one know if Toplac is happy to be painted over interprotect? I have some bare patches of timber on my deck, I have sealed them up with thinned epoxy and am thinking of using interprotect as an undercoat to give a little more protection prior to painting with Toplac. Is there any point to this or will Precote provide all the protection needed? Also, does anyone have any idea what the yellow undercoat pictured is? Its pretty hard so am guessing that it's a two pot system. Boat was built early 90s. Thanks!

In another 5 years people will be giving noelex 25s away. The new generation of sailor doesnt want a slow boat and there are alot of these around owned by people who are nearing the end of thier sailing lives.

If you want a fun trailer boat that has any resale value at all then your only options are an elliott 7.4 or Ross 780. Elliotts come up for sail about one every two years and asking 30k plus, About two R780s come up for sale a year and are usually asking 25 - 30k. The R780 on TM is a factory Hopwood hull and decks, Balsa core and comes with a heap of cruising gear, including autohelm.

Thanks for the offer Neil. not much point really. unless they are thinking of selling...???

Yes, that will be her, thank you. certainly a nice looking boat and looks to be well looked after.

Ok, cool, thanks everyone. Thats probably it. It had those classic yet modern lines and an open transom and was in really good condition (looked like new paint etc) Pity there werent a few more built.

Hi all, a few years back I was anchored at Rotoroa Island next to a beautiful yacht called Jasmine. She is in the 30 to 40ft range I think (it was a long time ago). I was wondering if anyone knows of this boat and if so what design is she? were there any others built? I am now looking around for my next boat and for some reason this boat has stayed in my mind all these years. Maybe she is a popular design but I was new to sailing then so would not have been familiar with different designs. Any help would be appreciated, just want to know what she is and if any others were built? C

Fantastic post by all. Very interesting reading. We have a 9 month old girl who just did not want to go to sleep on our trailer yacht till it was dark. In summer this was 10.00 when her bed time at home was 6.00! After a few nightmare nights away recently we found that a walk in the carrier or pram at about bed time was enough to put her to sleep and although we had to wake her to put a life jacket on to get her back to the boat she stayed drowsy enough that putting her down was much easier. Also at the start we were trying to structure our sailing around her nap times so she would na