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Hout Bay Harbour,not far from the HBYC (hout bay yacht club) on a perfect morning last April.Thats the owner/skipper Gregory sitting in the cockpit in the red jacket,left click on the picture to enlarge it for more detail.CKD Boats supplied Superform bending plywoods to this boat to help Nebe Yachts fit it out.

Merlin is tied to the dockside,while Flying Cloud,a Dix Design Dix 43' in ply/epoxy is alongside Merlin.

We supplied the boat on the left,its a locally designed and built Dean 44', with some Fluid Film just before they departed from Cape Town to St Helena island, in the South Atlantic.They are a family of five,the children are quite small and as the voyage,their very first trip offshore,is some 1740 nautical miles,its quite an undertaking for the parents in what is a new boat, having been launched only about nine months back at the HBYC marina.Yesterday I received this sat phone message:

Hi

Thanks for your help. We are well on our way to St Helene with about
250NM to go.
The rudder stocks are squeeking a lot. One point is the joint between
the top of the tube and the top bush. Which spray should I
use, I have your Fluid film, silicon spray, WD40, marine grease, silicon
grease?

Cheers
Gregory

This was my reply and advise:

Hello All,

Thanks for your mail,I hope its been a nice easy and fast passage,let me
know.

You seem to have a good choice of lubricants! the silicon spray will be too
thin to do much,same with the WD40,tests show that only 20% of whats in the
can is usable product,the rest is attomiser and disapears! the marine and
silicon grease will do a good job but you need to dismantle the bearings to
apply that,so use the Fluid Film,it will penetrate crevices and is thick
enough to do the job and stay in place,it will actually soak in to plastic
or bronze bearings,possibly you need to strip things down when you
arrive,then re pack with grease? let me know the outcome.

Regards
Roy

This was Gregorys mail reply this morning:

Hi

Thanks for the reply. I tried the Fluid Film and it worked so we will
sleep a little better tonight.

We had a windy start to the trip for the first four days then the wind
was patchy with us needing to motor for a third of the time and now
finally we have some wind again and should be at St Helene on Thursday.


Cheers
Gregory