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I saw my marina neighbour's just over 1 year old Lofrans winch being taken off his boat not looking in very good shape. Seems they don't make them they used to, meanwhile my 30+ yr old Nilsson soldiers on

https://www.passagemaker.com/the-vetus-maxwell-workbench/how-to-make-your-paint-last remarkable what you can buy in spray cans in USA

IT please check your heading, youse r givin us injuniers a bad rep about hour spilling 😁

This was John Roy's 58, Formula Express, powered by 2 8V92 Detroit 2 Strokes (hope they had a good sound proofing package!) This is the other 68 Golden Eagle, John had the 68 Magic Express with 2 big Cats and back to reality I remembered I do currently own one of Jim's designs

the Formula 4000 started off as the Vindex 12m, however Alan Young wanted to update its profile so Jim basically revised the the forard cabin using the Y88 cabin profile. There were also 2 Formula 58's and 2 65's during the time John Roy owned Formula Cruisers.

through economic necessity Jim also spent alot of time on the "dark side" designing and building powerboats. My previous Vindex 32, at Garden Is, off Perth This is an incredibly timeless design considering Jim designed these nearly 50yrs ago. I understand Jim did not like flybridges but had to bow to customer pressure

had a look in my files, I had saved some pictures of her. They date back to 2012. I had noted that there were 2 sets of pictures and it appeared she had been re-rigged, one group showed her with a swept spreader rig and boom bagged slab reefed main and another what appears to be a masthead rig with inline spreader and fore and aft lowers and an in boom furler. So maybe the new rig was a consequence of falling off the cradle? PM me if you would like me to send you the photos

I saw Lionheart listed for sale in the Med 3-4 yrs ago.

certainly a great designer who also had a significant influence on the next generation of designers including Bruce Farr and Greg Elliott (altho for some reason the latter will never acknowledge this). Jim did well to live around 20yrs after multiple by-pass surgery.

relevance - just a reminder from history that the French do not give a rats about how they treat other people and do not care what is thought about them. By they way they also make good cheese but their modern cars are crap

remember, this is the French, same crowd who among other actions committed an act of terrorism in NZ by blowing up the Rainbow Warrior.

back in the 80's I recall there was a legendary great white named Brutus who caused quite a few divers to walk the water...

Production started in Aus, by Binks Yachts in Sth Aust, same time as NZ. I think a deal was done where Compass built the hull plug (by Grant Mitchell which was subsequently launched as Pericon) and made 2 hull moulds, one being sent to Binks, and Binks built the deck plug and moulds, likewise one being sent to Compass. Binks kept building them for quite a few years and then launched a modified version, one of which subsequently lost its keel with fatalities https://www.sailing.org/news/11860.php#.XuaN2kUzbIU

Excellent film, we watched it this afternoon and it highlighted that Shackleton insisted on pushing ahead with the expedition in spite of advice from the Norwegians at South Georgia that this ice pack was a long way north.

RAYC had downwind starts in the early 80's winter series and we would all arrive at Izzy bay mark together, the pileups going around the mark were awesome.

Under the "you learn something every day" category - my wife pulled the book of the Endurance expedition from my nautical classics shelf, waiting there for me to read. I never knew Frank Worsley, captain of the Endurance, who was the real hero, was a Kiwi, born in Akaroa. Just incredible what they went through with all surviving

Compass Yachts were not exactly a premium builder, but most of their creations are still afloat all over 40yrs old

It was not so much that some boats were light, rather it was that most were heavy, both timber and GRP versions. To achieve design displacement in a timber boat the builder had to be very careful with the timber "shell" and then make sure that the owner did not fill it up with crap. All the glass ones were a bit heavier and then had more extra weight once everyone started reinforcing the deficient keel stub design, insane bolting the keel to the bottom of the stub and not running the floors down to it. Lionheart was one of the lighter boats as were Flying Fox and the "home built" Amnesty.

Lionheart was a timber Farr 38, built in Picton or Nelson . She was returning from the 82 Suva race, skippered by Grant Stapleton with a young crew of university students including Bo Birdsall's son. They had a miserable trip back, as did other boats returning from the race, and I believe one of the crew had been injured. I have been told the owner was insisting that Lionheart enter at Whangaroa and a fishing boat was sent out to try to guide them in using its own radar - not a good idea. They hit Stephenson Island, Grant and Rosemary (forget her surname, from a well known Auckland sailing fam

I think this might have been the excuse from the Farr office after all the complaints about the helm weight but it was not true. Gary Hyde and Trevor Fell who jointly commissioned the design wanted tiller steered boats for racing and when the first drawings were released - I remember seeing the drawings in Sea Spray and thought what a great looking boat - they showed tiller steering. Of the first 30 odd boats launched in NZ only a couple had wheel steering, although in latter years a few have been retrofitted. My Farr 46 has a similar "barn door" rudder however is remarkably balanced, as

Likewise, Flight Path in the early 80's

the heavy helm problem on the early tiller steered boats was solved on later boats by moving the rudder forward on the stock to create a little more balance. There is the issue of their AVS being marginal for Cat 1, not sure how inspectors view that these days vs their record of many offshore voyages

Well done IT, I was more than a little taken aback to see Rehab had down voted me for simply saying "thank you".

Your Prosil should be ok, key is that it is neutral curing - some bathroom silicons are acid curing.

thanks for all the feedback. The bathrooms have existing extractor fans but I like the idea of being able to minimise moisture build up. The showers are quite large so before committing to domes I will make a cleaning "reach" test to be sure the back would be accessible