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Go Sydney lifting and ask them for a sample yield test with certificate on your specific length of chain when you purchase it.

This is what AI tells me when asked:

At least three Lagoons have been publicly reported lost to Goiot escape-hatch failures, plus several near-misses:

Lagoon 39, off Canouan, Caribbean (early 2024). The 2013-built boat still had its original hatch, never replaced, and it appears a wave pushed it out of its frame.

Lagoon 42 "Second Wind", Caribbean (Jan 2025). A chartered boat several years old; the starboard hatch failed in force 7–8 winds and 3.5 m seas, flooding the hull through a 40 × 40 cm opening. It isn't known whether the owner had responded to the recall.

Lagoon 42, Ted Rutledge, Indian Ocean (Sep 2026). The hatch had already been retrofitted under the 2020 recall, yet appears to have detached on its own.

Near-miss: Lagoon 52. It limped back to Antigua with a large hole in the hull.

The root cause was the hatch design relying solely on silicone bedding to hold the acrylic lens in its frame, and Lagoon, Fountaine Pajot, Bali and Nautitech all issued recalls in 2020.

Other brands have also been lost, e.g. a Fountaine Pajot Helia named Marita off Morocco.

PacificStar said..
and before the tradiionalsist say "what happens if the chart plotter fails", we always carry at least 2 and often 3 completely independent charting systems - exactly as per commercial shipping (which stopped using paper charts years ago)

cheers,

Every ship I have worked on had the ability to print paper charts for traditional navigation methods if required from databases on the bridge. They also kept a very basic folio of charts for emergency use (I stopped working at sea 5 years ago). The issue is 3 GNSS receivers as per above gives you the same common failure mode. GPS jamming and s****ing areas are growing each year. Even in the SW Pacific it occurs. See today’s interference map above.

In parts of the world you can by GPS privacy jammers, the illegal fishing boat next to you could be using one.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-19/qld-yacht-rescue-whitsundays-elizabeth-reef/107172452?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link

Just saw this, maybe of interest.

shaggybaxter said..
How the bejeesus did they find him without an EPIRB?

-If one people smuggling boat reaches the mainland the government get whacked, two Federal elections over the last 25 years have been heavily influenced by small wooden boats (which are hard to find) trying to make it to Australia.

If your going to be partially submerged off the coast of Australia and want to be found, do it in that region or off a capital city.

In a past life, I spent years up there, bobbing around, lingering with intent, playing Uckers.

Maybe even go further, it would be hard to put a figure on the legal disposal costs of Brindabella. Maybe they pay you $40,000 to make their money hemorrhage go away.

If you haven’t been to China recently then you should go and see for yourself. Test your assumptions.

It gets worse than subscription models, BMW streamed advertisements to the Spiderman movie through the navigation system in over 70 countries

www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/bmw-owners-shown-spider-man-ads-on-their-infotainment-screens-but-not-in-australia


Gary,, you may be slightly insulated where your living in Japan, but China is having a massive growth in the Australian car market at the moment:

"The June 2026 VFACTS report, issued by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries, showed nearly all the major marques recorded a drop in sales compared with the first six months of 2025.

Nissan (-32.8 per cent), Mitsubishi (-25.7 per cent), Subaru (-25.6 per cent) and Toyota (-24.4 per cent) were among the hardest hit, while Volkswagen saw a 16.5 per cent loss and Ford shed 10.6 per cent. In contrast, comparatively new-to-market Chinese vehicles registered skyrocketing sales.

Zeekr led the charge with 5825 sales in the first half of 2026, representing a nearly 1300 per cent increase on its 2025 figure of 450.

Not far behind was Omoda Jaecoo, which went from just 690 sales in January-June 2025 to 8808 for the same period in 2026.

BYD, Deepal, Geely and Leapmotor all recorded sales growth well in excess of 100 per cent year-on-year for the January-June period".


Navionics subscriptions drove me to Open CPN, I think its an improvement.

I desire this boat, it looks great and has recently been re-rigged and re-engined.

Have a look at this walkthrough video (turn off the music its horrible) - have a look at all the rigging split pins, not one of them has a spread tail, the split pin on the port side rigging is halfway out. Scary.

www.yachtworld.com/yacht/1987-custom-danish-44-pilothouse-10104453/