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Used a lot of it last year during our 1020 refit.
Key to no bubbles is getting your thinning ratios right for your chosen application, temperature and relative humidity. To get your UV stability, reduce long term chalking of the coating etc you should be adding 15-20% durepox high performance gloss into your white/ black/ whatever durepox colour you have (unless it's below the water line, then I'm not sure).
In regards to what Guest said about the tape tearing the paint, it really depends on what tape type using. It surprises me how few people are using the more modern Washi tapes (rice paper tape), and continue to use crepe paper or vinyl tapes from the likes of 3M or Scotch or similar. There's good quality washi tapes available that have wax polymer coatings on them meaning the paint won't stick to it, while leaving razor sharp lines when you remove it. I've moved a few guys onto it down at our local club with a boat builder now buying it by the box full. It'll change your life🤣
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10 hours ago, Psyche said:
50 hectares is huge, and who's to say that its only 50? I get your point about dredging but I'm unconvinced that it could keep up with the spread. Just trying to think this through, you'll need teams of divers controlling the suction end carefully inspecting the terrain for any fragments left behind. If it can suck up the pest then it can suck up everything else, so if it was 50 hectares of flat paddocks, thats massive but 50 on broken ground is quite another. Still it could be done but we would need hundreds of divers and operators, multiple machines working many areas whenever the weather permits
Agree 100%, if the suction can remove something rooted into the sand, it'll remove all shell fish, other plant life and anything in amongst it etc.
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6 minutes ago, ex Elly said:
Is this sustainable/ affordable?
Of course it is, if you own a boat you must be a rich white male🤣
I can understand price rises like that where the marina/moorings are operated in conjunction with a hardstand, as operational costs for haulage equipment, fuel, wages etc are all climbing. But where it is a stand alone marina that offers nothing other than a place to park your boat, its pretty hard to swallow those increases. In all fairness thou, I don't know of any businesses in any industry that wouldn't have had a price rise of less than the equivalent inflation % in the last 12 months... I could be wrong thou as I don't get out much.... I can't afford to as I own a bloody boat🤣
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1 hour ago, Psyche said:
I thought they were about $500, Grant at CRA is the agent.
Yep correct, got ours through Grant.
3 hours ago, ex Elly said:Choice Transport
That's a name I never want to see again - too many bad memories. I'm gonna need a stiff drink now....
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21 minutes ago, Cameron said:
Did you need to modify the anchor locker to make it fit?
It sits out on the bow roller all summer. If we're sailing or motoring I clip the shank end on to the toe rail so there's no unnecessary weight/ pressure on winch. It doesn't fit in the standard locker, and is replaced with race anchor in winter.
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Also went to an excel (#3) on our 1020. With 20 odd meters of chain it's rock solid. Can now sleep at night without worrying too much...
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21 hours ago, Vivaldi said:
I spoke to the guy who bought is when it was about to go back in the water. He said he planned to take it up to the Mahurangi where he had some land and was going to haul it out up there and work on it.
Interesting, would be a bloody expensive project!
Is this the most recent buyer, or a previous one that has since backed out?
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20 minutes ago, K4309 said:
@Cheap Transport, do you know if they've fixed the channel markers yet? I haven't been out that way recently.
Still no starboard marker and the outer port marker is still damaged also.
There's some re-piling going on in the river at the mo with a few of the council swing moorings occupiers being moved onto piles due to the Penlink crossing. Hopefully the barge will continue down the river and put new piles in for the channel makers once they're done later this week 🤞
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8 minutes ago, Ex Machina said:
Isn’t the keel gone or is that another boat ? Cant keep up with all the old battle axes
Yup, lead is gone, she's floating well high
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Anyone got an update on what the latest is with this boat?
She's gone from the hardstand at Gulf Harbour and is now anchored off Manly Beach, Whangaparaoa. Apparently towed there by a RIB mid week.
Has she sold, or has she been abandoned there so she becomes someone else's problem, much like the sistership in Queenstown? (Cynical I know, but stranger things have happened...)
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As a fellow Weiti member, I'd love to hear more of your adventures BP! Can imagine there would be some bloody good laughs.
I think you should do it!
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+1 for putting in a mesh bag or pillow case first.
I didn't.... now the wife has a lovely new washing machine and I'm a boat dollar short of where I was 😅 could've replaced half my lines for the same cost🤣
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Is BOI to become the next area that we won't be able to anchor? Watch this space I guess...
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2 hours ago, A.B said:
That graph goes along with my "wild guess" that fyran aluminum dinghys is responsble for the vast majority of drownings in New Zealand.
Fyran aluminium dinghys aren't responsible for any drownings, it's the idiots who own them who make poor decisions. Same can be said for any vessel, if you don't know the vessel and its limitations in different situations then you're asking for trouble.
Poor decision making and a lack of education cause drownings...
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Been on the water all weekend and there is certainly a lot of debris out there. A few big logs that would give you more than a bump at 5 or 6 knots.
The starboard channel marker at Weiti River must be floating out in the gulf somewhere too cos it ain't where it usually is😅
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Jeezus, reading some of these comments make me embarrassed to be a boat owner... its like listening to my kids scrapping. Quite a stray from the original post, should all be glad the guy is OK, and (I'm assuming as you all obviously have Internet currently) be grateful your house isn't buried under 5 foot of silt in the Hawkes bay..... plenty of other things to worry about besides who (in your opinion) is an idiot on the water.
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Actually, just seen this reported now.
Will done to all involved!
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11 minutes ago, waikiore said:
Bleeper picked up this morning thats why she shifted , been thinking of our friend aboard all night.
So it's confirmed the owner is still aboard and ok?
That'd be fantastic news if that's the case!
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On 11/02/2023 at 3:52 PM, Winter said:
Just been down and replaced my docklines, they were starting to get a bit tired so this was as good a time as any to replace them all. Took down sails and solar panels.
I also went and inspected my neighbor boat, and its dock lines which looked like absolute sh*t.
Am I out of line for going onto the neighbor boat and adding new docklines? I left their ones in place, just added more and made my ones slightly slacker so they should only kick in when theirs fail..
I'd say you're a bloody good neighbour. A group of us spent 4.5 hours yesterday afternoon checking every boat in Weiti River after a mooring pile broke earlier in the day. Ended up replacing mooring lines on more than a dozen boats in atrocious conditions.
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2 hours ago, Adrianp said:
Sounds like they may have been aboard when the vessel broke its mooring?
https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/02/13/one-missing-after-boat-breaks-mooring-near-great-barrier-island/
Bloody unfortunate way to go.... but probably not surprising given the conditions.
I went to check on my boat (moored up a usually sheltered river) yesterday afternoon. The first thing I witnessed was a dinghy levitating above the water with a volunteer aboard trying to rescue another members boat which had broken its mooring. 5 of us ended up in dinghies checking every club boat in the river and replaced mooring lines on more than a dozen boats that had either broken or were just about to. Conditions could only be described as atrocious and to be fair, we probably shouldn't have been out there. What really pissed me of about the whole situation is that despite all the warnings and requests from the club to check your boat and mooring, there were so many that had clearly not been checked, potentially putting other boats/ lives at risk.
RIP to the owner of the GB boat, thoughts go out to the families affected.
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8 hours ago, Jon said:
I spray my decks beginning of each winter with Wet and Forget, not the cheapest by a long way, but I know it won’t do any harm
Sailmakers use it on sails also
Jon, does the Wet and Forget make your decks slippery when wet? Like a detergent would?
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Purchased our boat 19 months ago and in the last 12 months we've put approx $16k into it to simply catch up on all the maintenance that had been lacking over the last few years with previous owner. We could have spent another $10k and got the same design boat in far better condition and saved money in the long run. On the flip side, I now know my boat intimately, know all the wiring/ electrical systems etc and know if something goes wrong I can probably fix it myself. It's also got us back ahead of the maintenance curve, so to speak. Hopefully no more big expensive shocks with a maintenance plan and budget moving forward.
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1 hour ago, harrytom said:
Almost at the painting stage, what type of roller did you use? some foam rollers give that orange peel look, should i tip off??
I used 4mm mohair, some brands call them wool velour. If you get your thinning rates right (which differs with temp and humidity) you shouldn't need to tip off as the paint will flow and stipple will pull back as it dries.
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You can source it directly from Resene in MtWellington or any automotive paint supplier can get it in. Wairau Paint Centre stocks it in black and white if you're on the Shore.