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Took a lot of elbow grease! To get rid of the original stripes and signage took ages, 120g and 240g dry sand on orbital, then 400 and 800 wet with a D.A just to get the level down to the eroded surface of the topsides. Followed by 1500g wet before machine cut and polish 😅

Dragged her out of the 80's alright 🤣

In the water now. Not quite there yet but a different beast to the one we bought 6 months ago 😎

I waxed rig and collar before it went in. Should probably clean the mast wax off?

Now the wobbly bit is back in the hole I guess I'd better seal/chock it. What's your preferred method/product? Spartite? Silicone and wedges? Some other wonder product? Should I do it before or after tensioning/bending the rig? While I'm at it, what's the best stuff to use to seal on top of the mast dam? Cheers

I always liked the Easter race as you were guaranteed good visibility with the full moon and you had time to get back afterwards.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/3314148519 Can't guarantee it's the correct one but looks awful similar?

He saved that one but trowled it in final laps of the session. Nothing trickier than a slowly drying track when your searching for those last 100ths of a second! If you look at the replay of MM crash you see Jack Miller loses the front in the same spot but saves it on his knee.

Really aiming for simplicity and least modifications to a class boat possible. Had a deck mounted one on the 930 and had to remove anchor locker lid to use it whilst cruising but the 1020 split lid makes it a lot more practical. Prod will be removable with a single thumb turn screw at the back then just slips backwards out of the stem ring. While viat out of the water I'm adding a Bob stay tube to the knuckle but a heavy enough section prod can survive without one. (We had 19.7kts in 35kts on the 930 and ran a zero pretty tight with no breakages). However the 1020 is a fair bit heavier!

Keen!

It's for a deck mounted prod, so I could build it up where it slips through the ring. Most likely unstayed so 3.5mm may be a bit on the thin side? Can't recall the thickness of the one on my 930 but it was pretty beefy. What kind of length is it?

Yeah got my last one from there. Just checking to see if a crew.orger had something kicking about

Why would I want a prod on a 1020? Gennakers are just so hard to deal with on a family cruiser, there's all that pole carrying and clipping/unclipping, uphauls, downhauls, tweakers, wine glasses, death rolls and Chinese gybes.... oh wait... that's Spinnakers 😅

As description Need thick wall carbon mast/prod section parallel. 2-3 metres would be good! Cheers 022 044 9171

After 3 terms of Labor with their "No overnighting on boats" policy, the bottom really fell out of the yacht market

Yes I did clean the run up and no I don't know why last pic upside down 🤣

Today Installed sail drive boot, epoxy primed and applied first coat of Antifoul. 2nd coated internal window trims, installed windows just in time to weatherproof boat for the forecasted rain! Windows a hard job solo in a breeze

Friday afternoon/Saturday ... Painted new charcoal metallic boot top above my laboriously reclaimed white gelcoat factory stripe. Re drilled bolts for rudder top gudgeon, removed, freed up and reinstalled grease gland packers for bearings. Fitted rudder bearing tube and rudder. No play now! Installed new prop and prop speeded sail drive and prop. Wife and kids masked and sanded teak interior window trims. I prepped external window surrounds and installed vhb tape, and marked and masked window outlines.

I wish 😉 Can you imagine the anguish that would cause in the Owners association! I'm probably already in trouble for changing the back stay to Dyneema...

Was transported a shortish distance from yacht club to my house up a twisty road utilizing a Nissan Navara with a Hydraulic transmission lifter lashed on the tray, Borrowed digger trailer with an engine lifting crane bolted to the back end, motorcycle tie downs, carpet off cuts, a not insignificant amount of overhang, a firm belief in luck and no plausible Level 4 get out of jail story.... Middle coat is Resene 81a Etch Primer. Full System was: Linbide/orbital/ Hand Sand old coatings off. Detergent/waterblast extrusion. Allow to dry. Tramline Sand with 180g paper

Also built a covid testing centre at home and painted a mast in it. 35 years old and she still scrubs up ok 😉

Bought another toy that I'm not allowed to use. Pushing the boundaries of 'Click and Collect'