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[C.Ricko]

Hi Jonny,

I did get an answer out od Dad, he said he likes the centre cockpit Alphas.

i asked about wooden boats and he said he does not like any of them, he is not interested in boats or cars in the way most people like them, a car gets him to work and a boat goes out on hire. In his opinion all wooden boats are trouble and also pointless as fiberglass has been invented!

[Broadlander3]

Hi Clive

Your Dad's remarks really surprise me ...After all the Heart and Soul that went into their creation and the Buisiness he built up around them...He likes Plastic Boats : ...Thats one thing about your Dad, he did move with the times and no doubt why he built up a successful buisiness as we know it today...unlike myself, still living in The Dark Ages

Your remark about the car I do understand...As I recall he never was interested in cars and don't ever remember him driving when I was there in the sixties. The car that I do call to mind if my memory serves me right was a two-tone green Vauxhall Cresta that he bought for your grandmother and Ted Wright used to drive for her.

Which brings me to another bit of useless info, in that it was Ted and his wife that I lodged with at Sutton..Happy Days

As for wooden boats being trouble...Maybe they are..but that's why we love them so much...they are just like us...grow old gracefully and still turn an eye when cared for...not including myself in that last remark

All the Best...Terry

[Guest]

H Clive

Hi Jonny,

I did get an answer out od Dad, he said he likes the center cockpit Alpha

as.

I well i dint exspect you to ask your dad just shows you cant judge what a person will say only if you ask them yourself

thanks Clive

Jonny

[Dan]

I did get an answer out od Dad....

i asked about wooden boats and he said he does not like any of them, he is not interested in boats or cars in the way most people like them, a car gets him to work and a boat goes out on hire. In his opinion all wooden boats are trouble and also pointless as fiberglass has been invented!

I'm with Mr Richardson Senior.. couldn't have put it better myself!

Dan

[Springsong]

Phillistines

[Broadlander3]

I'm with Barry

[RedRover]

Does your dad still come into work then Clive,what does he do?

[Antares_9]

I think all you carvel and plank on frame wooden boat lovers are philistines, with your modern boat building methods. What’s wrong with a single felling dugout, or hide on bent willow frame, it was good enough for you great…….great grandfather so why all this modern stuff, not traditional at all. And whilst I’m at it what’s with all this pneumatic tyre nonsense, what’s wrong with a good old solid rubber or even better iron on wood tyre.

[C.Ricko]

Does your dad still come into work then Clive,what does he do?

Hi Barry,

Dad drives to work every day, he deals with me and my brother

in the winter there are bits and pieces to do but he gets a bit bored but in the summer he deals with answering complaints. That sounds bad but although we get less than 1% there is still a lot of work that he puts in to finding out what the problem was and sorting it out and keeping the customer happy while not giving too much away. There are other things we all do but they do not individually ammount to much.

[Palmtree]

Hi David,

I think all you carvel and plank on frame wooden boat lovers are philistines

I will have to get a sign for the hull *this is not GRP*

Ian ( 3 weeks to go )

[C.Ricko]

David,

even your boat had an original version made of wood

wood was made to float, tuppaware was made to put food in

[Palmtree]

Hi,

Very worried now,

tuppaware was made to put food in

Your customers are food!

Ian

[C.Ricko]

Hi,

Very worried now,

Your customers are food!

Ian

Hi Ian,

Not exactly, but they do tend to last

[Antares_9]

David,

even your boat had an original version made of wood

Sorry to disappoint Clive, she's based on a fast European Atlantic coast commercial potter. Though she does come from a builder with well over a hundred years of history with the same family ownership there was never a matchstick version. The original development began because of the availability of modern materials and unlike the equivalent U.S. Downeaster lobster boat designs there were no wooden versions ever made. Designed on the back of a Gaulois packet by one of the few blokes actually entitled to wear a Breton cap. Every boat I've ever owned bar one has been based on a commercial fishing vessel from some part of the world, my dream one is actually wooden, all 80feet of Buckie built Iroko on oak prawn trawler of her.

[NeilB]

The original mould plug may have been made of wood though David !!

[Antares_9]

I will have to get a sign for the hull *this is not GRP*

Ian ( 3 weeks to go )

Well Ian, unlike most, Tamara could pass for a moulded hull , no sign of caulking or misaligned planks, bruised wood etc. to give the game away, I still reckon Colin had access to a time machine and took some matting and resin back with him

[Antares_9]

The original mould plug may have been made of wood though David !!

Oi Neil, any more of that kind of talk and I might begin to regret specifying D4’s, I wonder if the Swift 42 is available with the “Y†word

[NeilB]

You can get Yanmars on the 42 but If you spec Volvos you will get 60 knots!!

http://www.dickies.co.uk/new-boats/bene ... awler-st42 Click on the tech data tab and look at the speed for the D6-310.

Not sure why thay are speccing a 310 as thats only available for commercial use now.

[Antares_9]

Commercially rated engines in a leisure boat eh Neil? Shows a bit of thought as to how a trawler yacht will possibly be used and therefore a good thing really, or at least offering the option is. Mr Volvo has always been kind to me and never cost me any real money to keep going so I’ll stick with the devil I know, now if I could just get hold of the diagnostic software for my laptop.

(With apologies to Clive for pretty major thread drift)

[C.Ricko]

The original mould plug may have been made of wood though David !!

Hi David,

this is where I was coming from

also this is a boating forum, I am sure we are allowed to drift a little

[Antares_9]

Sorry to dissapoint again, more in the region of laser cut poly, you should see the development facilities, here's just a sample.

[Brian]

looks like they forgot about the waves David

[Guest]

Hi Clive

you been quit for a few days must be getting stuck in to Project BV

Jonny

[C.Ricko]

I wish, I seem to have forgotten about her a bit, I have plenty of things to distract me at the moment but will put some wheels in motion soon.

one thing which was holding things up was what to do about a toilet tank and wether to change the size of the diesl or water tanks to fit one in. I am probably going to have a fairly small tank made and build a plinth over it to take the toilet on top with a short pipe.

problem is, I just want to use her and I have a feeling that I may take her away fron the yard before 'phase1' is finished which would mean more work than planned next time but we will see what we can get done in the time available.

[Guest]

Hi Clive

why not just build the tank somewhere else on the boat owers his hidden in the cavity of the seating the waste tank that is.

Jonny