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Wait!!! New boat purchasing comes with an extra cost on Crew. Essay required. You need to post a new thread in Marine Talk. Key notes are to include, Boat. (Pictures are worth bonus points) Story of trip.

Saturday....Worked on Bilge pumping system and think I have all that sorted at last. Got old genset ready to remove. Sunday...couldn't be bothered going out to the boat in the rain. The only down point of the boat on a swing mooring.

long as spelling is the only mistake you make, I would say that was a good achievement.

Interesting you say that. Because the guys at CSL said no you don't want the flux gate because having so much steel in the boat, the magnetic field changes as you heel over. So instead they have this stereo GPS antennae. Two receivers about 18" apart. So the differences in signal times apparently act like a Rate gyro and the course is more accurate than a flux gate.

As long as you are having Fun J. That's all that counts really.

Strange, I usually go home broke.

Will you be handing out freebies AA I keep being told to wash the Car, but I figure on two points. One, the Dirt is protecting the Paint from UV and two, it gets washed regularly in Auckland when it rains. Looking pretty grey out there now. Wondering why on earth we didn't go get the boat this weekend. Really don't care that it's a bit lame out there, we just want the boat up here now. Next weekend is not looking great again. Yesterday I fixed the Lawn Mower, so as Dawn could mow the Lawns. Then we went for a good long walk, first of the season. Really got to work hard this y

Wow, I didn't realise it took so little. Dr Dave, I also didn't know Alcoholics drank it. Sooo does it give you a buzz or something???

I perhaps should add, there are many Glycols. Not all are poisonus. Glycols are and Organic compund from the Alcohol group. Ethylene Glycol is the Poisonus one. Diethylene Glycol. There are Tri's and Pents and so on, but Di is used in the making of Polyesters and urathanes and Paints etc. Polyethylene Glycol is not poisonus and can be found in foods Propylene Glycol is not poisonus and is often used in medicenes, food aditives and external body products.

Ummmmm, it gets absorbed through your skin. I wouldn't be putting it on my toes. It might kill more than just toe jam.

Get the paint cleaned off and allow it to dry and then see what is soft. As Motorbike found with his, the black stuff was not actually rot, but old sump oil and diesel that had soaked into the timber and softened it up.

Without reading the links first, the big problem with Evadure was descovered about 10yrs (or probably more now) back. That being of it being porous. The Solvent evaporating would leave "holes" in the epoxy and it was found that timber coated in the stuff still took on water. It is also debatable as to whether the biocide in Evadure actualy helps or not. Sure it kills mould, but the epoxy pretty well locks it up anyway. A coating of a low viscosity solvent free Epoxy will work just as well in many situations. But if you want to penatrate into timber, a bit of solvent in Epoxy, or the premade

It is just simple anti-freeze. In fact, the cheapest ones tend to be the more plain basic. The expensive ones are usually called Corrosion inhibitors. But even if it does have a bit of corrosion inhibitor in it it doesn't hurth anything. Now the one thing you do need to check is if it is a pure glycol or a ready to use, which is the glycol diluted with water to be used directly. Not an economical way of buying it diluted. Ummm, never heard of it "opening up the pores" of timber before. I would be careful of such a claim. But after talking to motorbike yesterday, he also said he had heard tha

All bigger than 10m if my ability to convert from Imperial to Metric is anygood There seems to be that magic mark in size around the 12m point. Below and they all seem to be "Sports/Day sailor" type designs and 12 and above start to take on the "Weekender/Cruiser" style. The ability of making good sea miles each day is all OK if you have the right wind driections. I thiunk that tends to go to custard sailing around NZ though. For instance, I have been waiting for months now, trying to get a decent weather pattern to get a simple distance from Napier to Auck. The has been nothing so far. Eve

I doub't you will find anything in the Cat range in 10m. My view is that you have to get a very big cat to start getting any decent living space and then you end up with big costs. Like special Marina Berthing, haul out and that you hav two hulls to maintain rather than one. Make sure you go into this with all things considered.

Someone want a cheap Ally Cat?? http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-m ... 594196.htm

Rob, we sold our home and bought a boat and lived on it for a short term. Still have the boat and love it 7yrs later. A few words of advice though. First off, it is a major change and at least for us, it was me that struggled with it the most. But there is a rule of thumb that all doing this must live by. Once aboard, DO NOT make and rash decisions for at least three weeks. it takes that long to start to settle. And expect to to struggle at first. It is not just the space you are living in that changes. It is your entire life and life style that changes. Get your wife on a Basic boat handlin

Oh well, 70ft of anything would feel spacious.

Interesting to hear your point of view AC. Personally I am the otherway. I find them closti...Chlosti....too confined. The ceiling height is too low for me. A mono feels bigger and some designs are bigger than others of the same length.

For some reason, Suid likes being stuffed into confined spaces Personaly I like space But Squid has heaps and heaps of experience and I look forward to reading his "essy" as well. From things I have learn't, the bigger you go, the more expensive the lift outs, upkeep, the more expensive to find berthage and moorings, the bigger the sails to handle with just two etc etc. When just two of you are cruising, you tend to be solo most of the time. I have set up our boat to make it easier for Dawn to handle the sails on her own via "systems". But the more "systems" the more complex the who

Interesting SM. As you will be well aware, there are other versions of treatment devices out there. Lectrasan/Purasan etc. The Lectrasan had one major disadvantage in that it was too complex for it's own good. So reliability becomes and issue. Although in a real sense, for the environment it was in and the job it was doing, it could be said it was reliable, but fgor the cruising yachty, it was not and it is expensive for the cruiser to upkeep. I guess that is why you are looking at 50ft/Charter business.

I have been taking a surf around the net and it seems that some parts of the Us have banned them. Mostly on several fresh water lakes. And the State of California has supposedly banned everything and anything that has a 2 stroke, but I don't know how that's working out for them, because a lot of big groups, like Bikers are really fighting hard and being very defient. I found this from the EU and as you said, it seems just those that don;t meet the standard. The EPA in the USA are apparently going to be getting even tougher, but doing it stages.

That's interesting Rigger, because I had also read that 2stroke was banned for much of the rest of the world. Interesting if it hasn't.

And what kind of power draw are we talking Southernman? This sounds most interesting. I think eventually NZ will follow the US laws in regards to effluent holding, treatment and disposal. But I guess a few Councils need to get their act sorted before it could be forced on boaters. Nah hang, about who am I kiddin.

Well if they have cleaned their act up, that is great. But it used to be a massive problem. One of the worst affected was Alaska where the liners would go up to the Glaciers. The cold water meant that bacteria did npt break the efluent down very quickly and several ships a week were going into those places. There were massive complaints about it and when it hit the Headlines, the questions were raised and suggestions made that maybe the ships should not be allowed in the Soth Island Fijords. Mabe it was because of this that treatment and disposal has been looked at.