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Not real, as in I don't think it's a real hologram. Look at the kids, the one in the front keeps on nattering to her friend!

It's all about the drag and the cost of building a round bilge boat has dropped hugely since hard chines were being regularly built so that has reduced the biggest reason for offsetting the cost against the performance.

I'm pretty sure they are an earlier model Kiwi shaft seal ours is 7 years old and it is working fine not a drop of water comes in. The new ones are stainless and it looks like they've dropped the grease nipple. http://www.kiwishaftseal.com/afa.asp?idWebPage=56814&CATID=10&ID=144&SID=116944999 I keep intending to ring them and check but I keep forgetting to, maybe posting this will jog my memory on Monday.

Hi Wheels, I don't know if you've got this sorted yet but plenty of my customers use Trilux, prep the alloy but apply directly to the cleaned pvc. I'm sure it will void the warranty but I have several customers who have done this for 10+ years. One guy immediately after we retubed his RIB and before it hit the water had it all antifouled. Its mostly liveaboards do it who keep their boats in all the time and some commercial fisher man etc. Re the warranty if you live aboard your warranty is usually knocked down to 12 months in the small print any way. As for solvents we use MEK in the worksh

Just browsing the forums and checking out the boats you're interested in, the Beneteau, I've never owned one but hands down the winner for layout and design. If you can get that for a price within your budget that would be a good boat for it's size. I've always had older bigger boats because that's what my budget allows and we like to cover distances but every time I go on board a modern yacht I'm blown away by the size and accommodation that's crammed into a small yacht. We lived and cruised on board an Alden 43 ketch for several years with kids and all the classic yacht stuff going on. We me

Yeah that's how I did the splice, I should have known something was up when I felt the solidness of the stuff it feels like a dyneema core but it obviously wasn't. I felt like I was pushing on the pull side of a door whilst I was trying to splice it at first until I realised there was no hollow core. Thanks for that, I knew you'd come through. I've never seen it before (other than hanging in my garage for years) and I was most worried that it was going to be some corrupt polyprop blend that was sold in the 80's and failed before the early 90's.

Like everyone else I've been watching this with caution, I think it's Maritime NZ doing something to show the powers that be that they are a government dept doing proactive forward thinking work. Life jackets are low hanging fruit, if they can bring in a law to make them mandatory their dept will have a public victory that will be perceived much like the one with seat belts. The difference is that the most people aren't affected by life jackets like seat belts. The wider public will think it's all very simple and the fact that the very small voiceless yachting fraternity will have to wear life

Hi, This isn't for any reason other than interest, (or of course if it bursts liable into flames after 12 months UV exposure) can somebody tell me the manufacturer of this rope, my bit is 14 mm and the colour in the red fleck isn't particularly UV stable. I didn't even think twice about it until I went to do the eye splice onto my main sheet blocks becket when I found the inner core. I made up a splice that works but I'd like to know if any ones seen it before. The red fleck has faded in the 6 months it's been on the boat. We have tons of rope at home so I don't know where it came from or

Probably because it's for vessels that travel at over 10 knots. So for a yacht sitting in its berth it won't help and they've made the marketing decision for you.

Or Waipu

Steve with an attitude like that I reckon you're at least in your 60ś, it is offensive and you don´t have to be the subject of an offensive term for it to be found offensive. I don´t think you´ll find many C#nt beaches around the place either. I first thought you were being satirical then I realised you are just a bit ignorant and probably a product of the 40´s.

When it can float

Oh and those 400-1000% mark ups are on top of the mark ups from the buying office of Miter10 hq where they obligated to buy a lot of their merchandise from and I'm sure it is just the same for bunnings or placemkers etc

Man, I've been at the wrong end of the marine industry for 34 years, I'd love a bit of "gross profiteering" my understanding has always been that the majority of people don't want to spend money on their boats. They take the cheapest quickest fix they can. They want them safe and reliable and aren't so worried about having the latest gadget. Maybe it's the location you work in, in the UK I was never in London, in the US/Caribbean I was seldom in the trendy spots, in Oz I wasn't in Sydney and in NZ I'm not ion Auckland. I'm not saying that everyone that lives in those ares are interested in f

Smithy, that is a very nice emergency rudder. It beats lots of regular rudders. The only negative thought that crossed my mind was that with a nice rudder like that it looks like you're expecting/hoping to use it.

Yes they'll take a ply board in that flap and a couple of straps inboard to a fixing point. Give Southern Pacific a ring for a transom kit, it will obviously only take a 2hp, electric or clockwork outboard.

I'm in the Bay of Islands and I was wondering how bad it is in Auckland? Or anywhere else that has it. What effect it has had etc.

Here it is

Yeah it was a bit prickly, he's probably not expecting to sell any down here so there's no need to be polite.

That's their pipe lagging not alloy tube. Who would like to have a stab at the price, in NZ dollars ex freight? I reckon $750

Had a look at the video, moving the control lines outboard won't help the load, it looks like it all falls on the meccano.

It fits any boat but does it work? I don't think the control lines look like they have enough angle to take much lateral load and the stainless meccano angle doesn't look up to much either. If you secured a spinnaker pole across your transom and ran the control lines through the ends of that to get some better support in my mind it would help. But it doesn't scream secure, robust alternative. I do like the principle though.

I can imagine someone emptying the desiccated contents over the side only to hit a lifeline or a winch/handle and having the contents blow all over the cockpit. Just like ash trays used to do. Even worse the dust then blowing back into you face whilst you're laughing at the person who now has to clean up. ...

The yard owner gave the rebuild staff a month off! Good guy.

As far as I can see you need to use the "sail away scheme" the "retail export scheme" doesn't allow for car or yacht export. The berthon website has a good article on the position of the UK gov and it's new point of view regarding VAT. Since the global financial meltdown apparently they got a bit stingy and plugged a few leaky holes in the tax net. It is years and years since I was In the UK boat business and if some one was really serious about going to the UK and buying a boat to bring back here and they listened to advice from a bunch of people from an internet forum you'd have to wonder