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    Damage To Bathing Platform

    in Technical Questions and Answers

    Posted

    18 hours ago, ranworthbreeze said:

    Hi Jeff,

    Are you just stern moored or do you have any side moorings.

    We have fitted those plastic dock fenders on the stern pontoon and on the finger pontoon, these are inflatable. These help protect our gel-coat, we do have our fenders down as well.

    I agree with some of the other forum members regarding repairing what you have got on the bathing platform, this should be an easy repair and will keep the design intact, as already stated if you alter it you would have to redesign the ladder mounting on the bathing platform.

    Regards

    Alan

    Hi Alan, 

    Side and Stern Sir.

    32304431952_0522602174_b.jpgCC9J6713 by Jeff Cranwell, on Flickr

    We now have two old tyres hanging off the quay on the stern .

    So hopefully will stop this happening and I will make a spring rope as suggested, that should stop any further incidents.

    All part of the rich experience of boat ownership I guess :default_blink:

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    Damage To Bathing Platform

    in Technical Questions and Answers

    Posted

    4 hours ago, springsong said:

    Can you not "spring" the boat forward to prevent this happening again,  once a repair has been effected.

     

    3 hours ago, Viking23 said:

    Certainly if the rope is long enough, it will take care of any normal tidal rise and falls.

    Why didn't I think of that lol...

    Richard

    I wish I had thought of that before the damage occurred :default_dunce:

    Damage To Bathing Platform

    in Technical Questions and Answers

    Posted

    Cheers for all your advice peeps.

    The boat is only six years old but it has only been moored at its present location since January and the damage has only occurred since then.

    The original crazing happened when we had the extremely high spring tides a few months back which obviously weakened it. 

    We found it broken when we arrived at the boat on Saturday night so I do want to get this sorted ASAP before any further issues.

    I'll contact George during the week and hope the boat will be okay as I'm not in  position to get up there immediately .

     

     

    Damage To Bathing Platform

    in Technical Questions and Answers

    Posted

    Hi Guys and Gals,

    Got to our boat at the weekend to find the damage in the picture to our bathing platform.

    This had already got some star crazing to it where the fenders had rowed up onto the platform when moored up and thus the boat bashed into the quay heading at our mooring.

    I have since put fenders (rubber tyres) on the quay but obviously didn't work and the resulting damage is shown.

    Going to try and work out a better way of mooring/tying up so it doesn't happen again  but in the meantime does anyone know someone who could repair/make good the damage fairly local to Acle ?

    I was thinking it maybe a good idea if the protrusion was cut away and made the same as the rest of the platform and a piece of rubbing strake let in so it was uniform the whole way across the bathing platform.

    35901275670_e40539e54e_b.jpgFullSizeRender by Jeff Cranwell, on Flickr

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    Btcc Snetterton

    in The Broadscot Lounge

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    27 minutes ago, Jocave said:

    My least favorite date on the whole calendar, but guessing Sheddon will be favorite for pole, race day not so sure. 

    Well, I really like it, far better from a photographers point of view than Rockingham or Silverstone :10_wink:

    Lovely End To The Day Yesterday

    in Broads Photos

    Posted

    On 17/07/2017 at 10:27 AM, deebee29 said:

    It's amazing the quality of iPhones these days (mind you did have a little help from Mother Nature ):default_biggrin:

    Hope we get some skies like this in September 

    I usually whip the Dslr out but I was rather squiffy after a couple of pints of Woodfordes Wherry so stuck to operating the phone as the safer option:default_beerchug:

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