I know what you mean. My first boat I started to sand inside the garage with the doors open, and after a half hour the boat was brought out onto the pad to finish the sanding.

A friend of mine has a 20ft length of hose for his shopvac and it works slick with his sander.

Jason

: I have to roll my shop vac around with me as I sand, my problem is finding
: space for it to follow me without bumping any boats, ha. I built my first
: stripper canoe with a sander that had no attachment. I was really
: concentrating on hitting the high spots and going easy on the low spots
: when I decided to stop and step back and take a look. The whole garage was
: full of sanding dust, I couldn't even see had to run outside and wash off.
: That is when I went looking for my attachment. When I was done with that
: canoe my shop had to be cleaned head to toe, it is still dusty in there
: from that episode.