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Chris had better keep his Socks pulled up though by the Sound of it Ash PM KM as he has a good friend that is an inspector and is helping him through his Rebuild. I think they call him Popa Smurf

I like Sanding.....when someone else is doing it. It's looking great.

Interesting follow up story of the Charlie Gallagher tragedy earlier this year. http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-expr ... gic-battle

The current wouldn't be that strong in there would it Squid? But yes, a good current is the same as sailing. And also because you do 9kts everywhere, it is going to wear just that little bit faster. The Hempels Olympic is sold as a 3yr antifoul overseas, but sold in NZ as a 2yr because of all those factors of current and speed at which certain growth occurs down here in NZ. Plus it tends to be that the Boat owners down here expect their Hull to remain dead clean for the time specified. Where as a certain amount of growth is going to start building toward the end of the coatings life.

Trinidad is a Petite Paints bread. Very good paint, very expensive, very heavy, and thick goop to put on.

Here is a really interesting read. I did not realise just how far back the idea of a "leaching" Antifoul coating went. 17th century: In 1625 William Beale was the first to file a patent for a paint composition containing iron powder, copper and cement. In 1670, Philip Howard and Frances Watson patented a tar, resin and beeswax paint. 18th century: William Murdock patented a varnish mixed with iron sulphide and zinc powder, using arsenic as antifoulant in 1791. 19th century: By 1870, more than 300 antifouling patents had been registered. Then as now, the basic principle of the majo

Ablatives or Eroding paints have been around the longest. In fact in the early days after Tin, we had a choice of just a simple Ablative(copper coat) and a Hard non copper for Alloy Hulls and Sterndrives, both made by International. We also had hard Boot toppings that I think were still Tin based for a couple of years after the Tin paints were phased out. Then the Boot toppings went as well. Hempels will go over No5 and for that matter, pretty much any ablative will go over another ablative and Ablatives will go over all hard anti-fouls. In saying that though, I don't think there is a h

Done and Dusted. All Antifouled. Only one problem, the new Antifoul paint is making the White topsides look shaby There's always something. Anyway, we had the Hull's second coat done in 1.5hrs. I loved the way this Hempels covered with a Roller. The one and only other time we rolled on Antifoul was when we first purchased the Boat. It was so hard to coat the Paint on, that I said never again. We have always had it sprayed ever since. But in the future, I may just roll this stuff. Rolling also means not having to mask the Hull. Just some masking tape around the waterline.

Ablative has to erode for it to work. Many don't quite understand this. Especially when they see slime build up on the Hull only months after it was painted and then think their paint is no good. Ablative/Eroding coatings work by the surface washing away to expose fresh paint and thus biocide and copper. For a cruising boat, I would rather the coating be a little softer and wear away keeping the Hull clean than to have to scrub the thing. The trick is to have the paint wear in a controlled manner. By the way BBay, I looked at War paint @ $43/ltr, but the Hempels was available at just under $

Hempels Olympic. It was one sprayed coat of 20ltrs. This time will be two rolled coats at 25ltrs. I want to put extra around the waterline area and high turbulence areas. That was were the heaviest growth was. Although in saying that, I was greatly surprised how clean she actually was for 3yrs. Just that furry beard type weed stuff. No actual kelp. The odd small bunch of mussels which were where some paint had actually come off at the bottom of the Keel and around some of the steel underwater fittings that had no antifoul left on them. A few small barnacles here and there. Interestingly I have

Not actually achieved yet, but boat came out of the water today and ready for Antifouling over the weekend. It's been three years since last time. Plenty of growth. Prop had Propspeed applied last time and it was actually quite clean with all the propspeed still soundly attached, although getting thin on the "Pushing face" of the blades.

Been out on the water with Team Grinna watching the Tall Ships and doing a spot of fish feeding. As in, Fish taking bait but not taking the Hook. Saw Squid and his beautiful Black Panther, along with many return'ees from the Coastal Classic. Awesome day.

I'm laughing so hard it hurts.

Did the Auckland thing. Coffee and stayed out of the rain.

A marathon job for me. Removed 5 hatches, 5 vents and all hardware and then Sanded the entire Front deck back to the bare Ply. This afternoon, rolled a seal coat of Epoxy over the ply to soak in and now ready for Glassing next weekend hopefully. Now very tired and very sore. I don't seem to be as "malleable" as I once used to and the ole Knee's, Back and Shoulders are feeling it.

And how it looks now...kind of. I have finished off more of the trim and fitted the Gas detector, but don't have an updated pic. But you get the idea. So I now have a far better fridge box. Bigger and far better insulation. The Califont is now in the Galley instead of out on the Pilot house.

Finally....almost....finished the Galley. It's usable and that's the main thing. First 2 pics is what the Old switchboard looked like. The other two is of the upgrade. Pilot house is still needing a good clean up and then I will post some pics of what that looks like.

If a Transceiver does one thing and not the other, the first place to look is the Microphone cable at Mic and at plug.

Todays achievement for me was making it back in from the Boat in my RIB in sustained 30kts with 40kt Gusts and against the tide. Wow that creek can get ruff. I really didn't think the job would turn out as major as it has. I perhaps should have taken smaller bites. So I now have a new fuel system, new engine oil filtering system, new exhaust riser/water mixer. New Electrical and new Helm station in the Pilot house. Wasn't really intending on that one, but it's looking good. And tomorrow I am going to move the califont to a new position and plumb it in.

One other thing I found on Parsun, is that Parsun is actually a US based electric motor manufacturer and one of their products happens to be the Parsun electric Outboard. the article I read sounded like Parsun was getting China to build a Petrol version for them. But I see nothing on the Parsun website pertaining to such. I wonder if it is possible that the Chinese company are building the outboard housing and Parsun fit the electric motor and thus China is now fitting a petrol motor and marketing it. Might be wrong of course. But the article said that the Chinese company was the biggest manuf

I have been doing some online research on Parsun PW. I have not been able to find any negative comments about them. I have read the odd negative that stems from the Chinese debate, but no one seems to have had an actual failure as such. I did however find this, whcih I thought was most interesting.

I wasn't sure of the area you guys were talking about, so I took a look at the area on Google Earth. I see it as a good thing. Look at all that foul ground above Takapuna. I reckon we would all get hrs and hrs of entertainment from the boats that would run into trouble on it.

Yes I heard all about that today. So what was the verdict? were they accurate or did you need to make some amendments??

I was fitting up the raw water system to the main engine today and while wrestling a piece of tube onto the oil cooler , the hose tail broke off the cooler. So I removed the cooler from the engine and on closer inspection, it turned out to be a good thing. The tail had been cracked around the solder joint for sometime by the looks and it had been weeping and had rotted though. I am much happier to find that now than when in a situation of less convenience. It will be a simple fix, so not so bad. I was asked to take a look at a guy's boat engine this morning. He had been having trouble w

Sounds great rigger. For me this weekend, I got the genset running and the AC panel all wired up. I can now charge the batteries from the charger/genset. Although the solar panels have kept everything running brilliantly.