Thanks for the offers of help and the nice comments folks. If any of you ever get to Oz, you have somewhere to stay and a boat at your disposal.
30 feet of wooden boat. Two coats of paint plus undercoat. 3 colours. Mucho filling and sanding, antifoul, masking. Up and down ladders, replacing anodes, lots of hand sanding, all in 30 dgrees celsius. Think I'm gonna buy something in Tupperware! (Fiberglass). It's a big bugger when your doing it by yourself!
Ikar, it's a risk. Every time I go out, I have no idea where I'm going and sadly, I have more than a little Gilligan in me.
Armornut, I hope to be back in the water on Friday, Saturday your time.
Hutch, Thanks for the nice words, I wish you could help too.
Disastermaster, photoetch???? OMG, how much is that gonna cost??
HooYah. I'll have you know, we have made great progress in this country. Why the stagecoach is set to arrive twice a week now!!
Goldhammer, this breaks my heart mate, but it's an alcohol free site.
Bako, I expect you on the next plane. I have a paintbrush with your name on it!
PFJN2 Wow! I've had nice things said about the boat before, but nothing as cool as that!
Ok Keavdog, I'm expecting you, Hutch and Bako. Beers are on me!