Thankyou! We crab around the Cannonvale area (near Airlie Beach) and have never had a problem but I was advised there were new rules whereby the person named on the pots/floats had to actually be in the tinny so I thought I should try and sort it before the rellies use my pots/floats. I can imagine your floats just dissolving away! What a pain! I sprayed a styrene foam box once with black paint to make it look nice ... big mistake, it just filled it with holes.