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The best sailing movie I've seen would be Deep Water, very sad doco. But most are absolute garbage, that thing with Robert Redford was so awful I couldn't watch it properly I had to keep fast forwarding it. Do farmers have the same problem? When they see an actor using a tractor in the wrong manner or builders must see stuff on tv all the time that is blatantly bad, unsafe, or plainly physically impossible.

Well that's a strange way to find out a friend died, I knew and worked with Todd in Queensland we were leaving to go sailing just after he split from his wife about 13 years ago and he talked about how he would like to do something like that, so I guess he did. He was a nice guy, quite quiet just a genuine sort of bloke.

Not entirely irrelevant, you get to claim it back on departure. If you're exporting the boat from the UK you claim the VAT back and then pay the GST when you import the boat to NZ.

I've got a customer who has an old aquapro rib that he keeps in the water. He has antifouled the hull with Trilux and all the tubes where they sit in the water and that has been fine for a long time (10 years plus). I wouldn't have recommended it to any one but the pvc is still flexible and free from barnacles. I've seen quite a few over the years and hard antifoul is used mostly because of dragging the boat on deck for passages, ablative makes a hell of a mess.

Hi, use a heat gun and be patient, also mask the surrounding boat/pvc with wide cheap masking tape, just to help deflect a bit of heat. Then use a blunted putty knife to slide between the boat and davit pad. The problem is obviously that the davit pad has a lot of mass and the pvc it's attached to doesn't and you're aiming for a temperature that compromises the glue but not the fabric. It's a thin line at the best of times it will be almost impossible to remove if they've been put on correctly within a couple of years without destroying the pad. If they've been there ofr a long time it might

We're going to do it, I stopped sailing for a living about 20 years ago and apparently that's when my technical knowledge stopped as well. A recent discussion with YNZ on behalf of a customer regarding the Iridium Go, being acceptable for Cat 1, underlined my lack of fluency (ignorance) with the subject. A few years ago I can remember thinking it was all a bit messy and it will settle down, I think that time is here. We'll be doing the AIS vhf, transponder, Iridium Go, tablet/open cpn thing as well as personal AIS transponders for MOB. My only concern is the power consumption, with LED's eve

Yes that's the one, they had one turned on at the last boat show it lasted for 8 1/2 hours. If you want it to last the whole night buy another! I find there is a massive lack of knowledge and experience when it comes to using flares. The manufacturers haven't helped with a myriad of ways of firing it or deploying it. There was one that even in broad daylight in a car park you would have naturally have held the hot end. So I think these are brilliant, a child of almost any age could use it. They are not as bright as a pyro and they don't have an led smoke flare or a rocket but if you live in th

Ric from Lusty's showed me their new RescueMe led flare and I was impressed, it beats the laser flare and in bright sun it's got the "aah Sh##" factor for your eyes which I thought the laser flare lacked. I've sold a couple and they are hands down a vast improvement on pyro's which are just bloody dangerous. The sooner they get accepted the better. It's time pyro's went the way of morse code and signal flags will be next in line for retirement.

This is something I want to do. For some reason the destination appeals to me more than Fiji.

Led lights, smart alternator regulator, ditch the power hungry cd player and speakers and get a blue tooth speaker for music from your phone. Stove top espresso, cockpit shade whether bimini or boom tent. Fix any deck leaks, need to be dry down below. Decent dinghy. What other people have said about the anchors, auto pilots and such.....but especially the bacon.

My vote is being tracked

I'll see what else I've got, Beau Diddley's obviously's got some more.

Nice, good to see.

That is a beautiful boat. "and get back into dinghy racing" - I wish I could get back into a dinghy

Hi, for my sins I mostly build and repair inflatables in my business, (just waiting for Bushman or Beau peep to jump on this thread). But for what it is worth this is what I think. Don't buy a boat from trademe older than 5 years. If you are going to buy secondhand buy a boat with welded seams, That mostly means Southern Pacific, Force 4 and Aquapro, Zodiac and other Zodiac derivative brands like Bombard and X-3. Aakron, Java, Maxxon, Honwave, Quicksilver and most other pvc brands are glued together and come from the same factory in Guandong province - Sun Selections. The quality is ok, but be