Springsong Posted May 2, 2008 Author Share Posted May 2, 2008 sORRY COULDN'T GET ANYMORE PHOTOS ON THERE AND THE ONES i DID GET ON WERE IN THE WRONG ORDER doh.and the D****d capitals on as well double DOH I really must get out more, or is it I must drink more and get out ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Barry work is coming along a treat cannot wait for the next installment of the build Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springsong Posted May 8, 2008 Author Share Posted May 8, 2008 Morning All Just a quicky really to show you that I actually do things to this restoration and don't just sit around and drink coffee.So please find one photo of a very posed me sanding a hand rail at home on the patio sitting obviously and just finished the tea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 8, 2008 Share Posted May 8, 2008 Barry mate don't blame you enjoying the sun at home in comfort while doing some work every mans pleasure :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springsong Posted May 10, 2008 Author Share Posted May 10, 2008 Morning All I am in my normal place minding my own business removing paint and lovely tar varnish, there seems to be more banging than normal. It turns out that there has been a problem with the last beams cut. Will is in high dugeon :x he feels it is his fault and that he will have to stump up £ 200 odd to replace them. So I told him that accidents happen and that Jock would see it the same way, and anyway we still have the fore cabin and ultimately the canopy to do so I am sure the wood wont go to waste. The result of all this is that he decided to start on the aft bulkheads which we need to replace. Firstly all the furniture in the aft well had to come out the gas lockers and the steps.The step running from side to side was fixed down to prevent erant hirers from fiddling with steering cables, so when we replace it it will be hinged to give us access to the grease glands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springsong Posted May 10, 2008 Author Share Posted May 10, 2008 Well that doesn't really explain all the noise and comotion perhaps this helps Some of the galley ,heads, and bits of bulkhead. You can see from the next photo the state of the bulkhead but equally you can see the floor below it is completely rotten. The floor is actually the beam running from side to side of the boat that takes all the cabin soles to give every thing their correct names. Water has obviously been coming in the aft well over the years, either through no cover or over 49 years just badly made/fitting covers. Anyway whatever the cause the result is that black piece of wood with white spots.When we get to the point of new covers the aft cockpit cover will fasten on the cabin roof and stretch right over to the transom and faster between 6" to 1' foot down the transom a la Broom captains and comanders etc. The next three are the cockpit stripped the heads/shower almost stripped and the galley completely stripped Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springsong Posted May 10, 2008 Author Share Posted May 10, 2008 Whilst all this is going on inside Ivor is being equally destructive outside. He is taking off the outer skin of 3/8" Mahogany off the transom. There is a layer of calico between the inner and outer transoms this aparently is a common (or is that was) practise see the photo of the rubbish and you can see it quite clearly. The board running across the bottom of the transom at first sight we thought might be oak and therefore we could leave on, closer inspection revealed it to be ply wood with Iroke ends on it ,so off it is going to come. So this just goes to show we can all make our own mess like gooduns. :-D But Will wins with the kitchen sink Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springsong Posted May 10, 2008 Author Share Posted May 10, 2008 Whoops forgot the other photos Sorry about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 Hi Barry good to see her coming along now : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stranger Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 hi Barry just read this thread for the first time very impressive great to see you hard at it after your personal setback i bet shes going to look a treat when shes done keep the great work going and us drooling with the pics as she comes along Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springsong Posted May 17, 2008 Author Share Posted May 17, 2008 Thanks Jonny Thanks Stranger Well this week not a huge amount of work,Will has finished removing the lockers and steps in the aft cockpit. There has been water ingress either through a badly fitting cover or no cover at all over the cockpit thus along with the limber holes being blocked with crud stagnant water has lain covering the planking and lapping the hog. Therefor we have a little bit of rot in the hog and both garboard planks, not a huge problem but hasle. You can see in the pictures where the paint on the bearer is missing just where the water has lain for sometime. So the good news :-D Ivor has sourced some 10" mahogany planks for the transom and also plenty of mahogany for the rest of the planking, and the off cuts from the cabin roof beams can be used for the frame work for the new lockers and steps. So over the next couple of weeks we should see some going in rather than out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 17, 2008 Share Posted May 17, 2008 Hi Barry keep it coming i want to see more love reading about the restoration on boats and before and after how they look Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springsong Posted May 17, 2008 Author Share Posted May 17, 2008 Hi Jonny Thanks for your posts. It really makes it all worthwhile to know that someone is enjoying my rubbish prose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 17, 2008 Share Posted May 17, 2008 Barry i can't wait till all your hard work has ended and shes cutting through the water like a feather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springsong Posted May 26, 2008 Author Share Posted May 26, 2008 Well here we are and another week has gone by. This week has not an aweful amount to show but at least things are going back in, Firstly Ivor making a new floor to a rough shape out of Iroko. Next it has to be brought in to have the more intricate measurements taken. As you can see the floor although structural is made in two halves, which is good news otherwise I don't think we could have got the new one in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springsong Posted May 26, 2008 Author Share Posted May 26, 2008 Well terrific that's the second time I have been thrown out and lost all the script. Third time lucky!! Whilst Ivor has been busy so has Will putting in all the new framework for the lockers steps and gas lockers. Speaking of lockers I have been trying to get prices for off the shelf gas lockers, the only one I have found has been Calor at £ 259.01 at least Dick Turpin wore a mask . So this is making £ 125.00 for a locally sourced S/S one look very resonable. Did I say very ? well you know what I mean, we need two. So the Ash for the new beams has been delivered as has the marine ply, the Mahogany planks and the Sapele for the new transom in 10" boards, not as I first thought Mahogany the cost of which is prohibitive. We have decided that all the upright facings of the aft cockpit will be in hardwood tongue and groove which will mean no large areas of ply which can look, I don't know if bland is the right word, but you know what I mean. The stripping of the hull goes on and on and on etc. etc. but someone has to do it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jillR Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 hi barry lovely to see the old lady pampered mumsie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 Hi Barry looking good mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 I called in to See Barry On Thursday, What a great job the team are doing THis is going to be a fantastic finished product. Im hoping there will be a launch party to end all Launch parties Barry, many thanks for the Pic CDs Im still going through them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springsong Posted May 30, 2008 Author Share Posted May 30, 2008 Hello All On Wednesday Jock and I went on a kind of equipment reconnaisance as the time is fast approaching where we shall at least have to have the measurements of the hardware we are going to fit. Our first stop was to Marine and Industrial at Worstead to purchase an amount of West System epoxy and all the paraphenalia that goes with it. Difficult to estimate the quantaties needed on a job like this, both cabin roofs, canopy, and probably most if not all the decks. Suffice to say after joint heart attacks and several hundred pounds lighter, or probably the other way around,we left a little subdued. Onwards and upwards we then went to see my good friend Peter Applegate at Wroxham Marine in Griffin Lane. My thinking being that he builds cruisers for hire charter and private use therefore he should be able to guide us through the imensely complex area of boat electrics and the equipment that is not only available but that which would be most suitable for our purposes. We started off with 5 kw inverters with generators 6 AGM batteries and ended up with 1.6 kw inverters with 3 AGM batteries. A really helpful discussion because my knowledge of modern electrical product is very limited. Then we talked about Loos or WCs to the more refined of you, Jill. We had looked at the Vetus with built in macerator but a £600 odd pounds (ok without any discounts) and we need two we felt that a little rich, again Peter uses the Jabsco equivalent, not as good looking but at half the price has to be a contender.fridges came next, so all in all a very useful morning, our thanks to Peter and Steve at A.R.Peachment for their help and their time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 sound like you had an eventful day Barry :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springsong Posted June 1, 2008 Author Share Posted June 1, 2008 Tell you what Jonny I haven't worked the grey cell (my last one) so hard for many a while. Now to work. This week although some things actually went back in some more had to come out. Needless to say we found some more rot but there you go. A couple of weeks ago at the yard a fellow came up for a chat and said he remembered Star having some serious money spent on her, I forget where, probably a good job, a good amount of this rot has been going on for many years and some of the repairs have been penny pinching to say the least as the photo shows. The piece hanging down is I think a piece of copper although someone else thinks it's lead, anyway it was nailed on to cover a rotten piece of plank!! Delaying not curing. Whilst doing my paint removal I have constantly found small pieces of erroneous wood let in where a plank should have been put in thus allowing the rot to progress. In no particular order the new floor fettled and ready for it's final fitting,the rotten wood being chopped out.New and old some of the old bulkhead leaning against the new awaiting it's final cut to fit.The new floor in it's final place, with just the old to be chopped out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springsong Posted June 1, 2008 Author Share Posted June 1, 2008 The first picture shows in the top left the remains of the shower tray/box a wierd construction which is proving rather stuborn to remove, I can feel a large Birmingham screw driver coming on. The next one shows the detail of the beam and the capping between the beams, the strange blue is not artistry but it was begining to spit with rain, so covers on Next another veiw of the floor during fitting, and finally a boatbuilders lot Ivor not in his favourite position, but I suspect we may see him in it a good many times yet. I have all the tongue and groove in my daughters' and son in laws new extention. The roof is on so I have this lovely big space to work in but I can't got in. Four weeks ago they asked the scaffolder to come and remove it,we have come to the conclusion he is using there house as a kind of storage depot, another week lost. I am begining to really worry for the day fast approaches when Will must need it for the cabin roof,here's hoping for this week. Regards Barry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 Hi Barry looking realy good mate are you able to keep any of the hull ribs ect or does it need a total external refit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springsong Posted June 1, 2008 Author Share Posted June 1, 2008 Hi Jonny We have as yet found no damaged or rotten ribs maybe when we get up near the bow there maybe some ex hire fleet damage, although I hope not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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