boty said..

southace said..

boty said..

southace said..
It appears I'm the only one that works on boats! ??

not at all mate but as I do it for a job I don't want to put stuff up and use it as advertising

I do it for a profession as well, but still manage to get stuff done on my old girl not advertising just sharing progress. I have spent 6 hours on the buff today on a clients boat and now don't have the energy to tape up and grout my own windows! And know doubt rain on the weekend!

just knocked off after reshaping the aperture on a1938 schooner which is receiving a new engine and feathering prop. I think I had the better job today hate polishing as much as glassing with poly and choppy

Polishing is relentless around here, gelcoat is great for building GRP boats but has poor uv resistance. Some of the older gelcoated boats actualy come up better than the modern gels! I'm happy with just re-painting every 5 years and two pack on the hull!

It was good back in the day when Hayden was about I liked to see his updates on his h28

southace said..

boty said..

southace said..

boty said..

southace said..
It appears I'm the only one that works on boats! ??

not at all mate but as I do it for a job I don't want to put stuff up and use it as advertising

I do it for a profession as well, but still manage to get stuff done on my old girl not advertising just sharing progress. I have spent 6 hours on the buff today on a clients boat and now don't have the energy to tape up and grout my own windows! And know doubt rain on the weekend!

just knocked off after reshaping the aperture on a1938 schooner which is receiving a new engine and feathering prop. I think I had the better job today hate polishing as much as glassing with poly and choppy

Polishing is relentless around here, gelcoat is great for building GRP boats but has poor uv resistance. Some of the older gelcoated boats actualy come up better than the modern gels! I'm happy with just re-painting every 5 years and two pack on the hull!

Interesting you say that . I had the shipyard that antifouled the Sonata give her a Polish and the boss said the gelcoat even after 34 years was perfect still ( except a couple of scrapes done by me)

southace said..

Bananabender said..

southace said..

boty said..

southace said..

boty said..

southace said..
It appears I'm the only one that works on boats! ??

not at all mate but as I do it for a job I don't want to put stuff up and use it as advertising

I do it for a profession as well, but still manage to get stuff done on my old girl not advertising just sharing progress. I have spent 6 hours on the buff today on a clients boat and now don't have the energy to tape up and grout my own windows! And know doubt rain on the weekend!

just knocked off after reshaping the aperture on a1938 schooner which is receiving a new engine and feathering prop. I think I had the better job today hate polishing as much as glassing with poly and choppy

Polishing is relentless around here, gelcoat is great for building GRP boats but has poor uv resistance. Some of the older gelcoated boats actualy come up better than the modern gels! I'm happy with just re-painting every 5 years and two pack on the hull!

Interesting you say that . I had the shipyard that antifouled the Sonata give her a Polish and the boss said the gelcoat even after 34 years was perfect still ( except a couple of scrapes done by me)

I take it just the white is gelcoat?

No the stripes as well as far as I know . Eg there's no ridge between the white and stripes

southace said..
It appears I'm the only one that works on boats! ??

Ha ha ha, I think you're the only one with any energy left to report on your work, we're all shagged and falling asleep afterwards....

Seriously though, that's looking very tidy, you must be pleased with the result?

I actually did some work on my boat today. Got the valve clearances adjusted on my D1-30 volvo, and half way through installing an Engine Guard alarm:
engineguard.com.au/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA0NfvBRCVARIsAO4930kRO37DEMvP6sdVu8rHXnoy5qQIn1NMdegpQfngM3_kDEa7fyB4A-AaAoIBEALw_wcB

I got a bit waylaid during the last part of the install though. I needed to run wires to power the thing and I ran into a bit of an oily mess in the part of the bilge that I'll run the cable, so I spent a couple of hours cleaning first.

Well done - certainly looks the goods!!

I was going to get some painting done before Xmas too but the ash fallout from all the bush fires up here put an end to that.

With the fires & water restrictions it's very hard to keep the boat clean - must be climate change ~

AzureF305 said..
Finally got the head converted. Had the conversion kit and a new Y-valve for months, but promised the kids it would be in before the school holidays - so now it is! Thankfully I keep the system clean, so the job was not messy or smelly at all, but it did take me 3 times longer than I estimated. I'm happy it's done (kids are even happier!) - and now it's a one-button job.

"and now it's a one-button job"

so is there a "number two" job button?

You got a love the TMC electric toilets but the certainly are a **** design and hard to get your hands around. Looks like a neat job your doing with yours.

Thanks Southace, I agree about the design - not real happy there's only room for one clamp on the ports, so I made bl**dy sure they won't move!. Good point Woko- I've taught the kids to use 3second bursts, and to count to 5 before trying again if it needs it. We were out for the weekend, and power was no problem - 250ah house and plenty of solar(which now works properly). I was back to full charge by about 10.30ish Sunday morning. Gotta love the sun

shaggybaxter said..
After 3yrs the vinyl on the sides was looking pretty shabby, so it is time for a change. I'm going back to white for a while till I work out what to do.
I had the fear of God put into me about there being two types of vinyl, one that is a cast iron b#%*h to remove, the other is easy by comparison. Murphy's law of course dictates it was going to be the mongrel vinyl, so it was with some trepidation I got a phone call saying today was the day to find out.
Eek.
The gods were kind, it's the easier vinyl, and even better news the hull underneath looks like it will only need a polish , no blemishes or ugly parts so far. One repair to do on the transom, and she 'll be as good as new.

It will be weird to see her all in white, be interesting to see if it makes her look smaller being all one colour .


Edit: bugger, I forgot about the whale scratches, they might need some work. You can see them under the cabin window.

dam you will now just be another of the white boats hard to pick out

Starboard side done, portside to go. Looks almost naked without a colour. Hmmm..still out to lunch on it atm....

Finally got across a couple of little jobs now that racing is on a pause.

Grabbed one of these solar powered exhaust vents and cut a hole in the middle of the washboard to install. Would've preferred doing it on the sliding companionway hatch, but it was a little too high. Will see how it goes.

Had some old fashioned clutches which were fairly stiff, but one of the other clutches onboard was a Lewmar one which felt much nicer, so I swapped them over.

Which is a very quick version of the story - getting to the underside was an absolute b*tch, managed to lose the single mainsail one overboard, then the replacement one was mislabeled, resulting in needing to remove it, followed by a quick trip up to Whitworths in Brookvale as none of the other shops had the right size to hand! Still, totally worthwhile.

Also, not pictured, but realised there was a split ring missing on part of the vang, which could've gone at any time!

The cushions (plus a couple of spacer foam pieces) go on the table. The backrest is placed on 2 sturdy 20 litre buckets at each end as support (which just happens to be the correct height).

That looks bloody marvellous EC! A good sleep from a comfy bed is worth the hassle of a midnight loo call in my eyes, especially when you're tall and shoehorned into a pipe berth :)

I am pulling the hydraulic ram out to repair an annoying leak that of course is somewhere inside the keelbox. I was initially nervous that this would involve a disassemblly project of epic proportions, with the table and mast-step and all sorts of things having to come out to gain the proper access to fully remove it.
So it was with some trepidation I got the last email from Lauren at Pogo about how best to approach it. Turns out i was stressing for nothing, it looks like a pretty straight forward job. The only real trick is you need to have the keel down, so we need to find a 3m LAT to keep the keel from grounding, as without the ram its free to just pivot up and down, not a feeling I am looking forward to!

So, it's off to Rivergate for a week long stay so we can pull the ram out, find the leak, get new seals etc, and then put it back in.

Today was prepping and dry running how to do it, and I managed to get a photo from inside the keelbox for the first time. This shot is taken with the keel up, so the ram is fully extended pushing the head of the keel as far forward as possible.

The camera is at the back of the keelbox looking forward. The top shiny tube is the rams pivot where it anchors to the keelbox (and a wad of dry grease coming off it.) and the shiny surface underneath it is the back of the keel itself. When its down, this surface acts as the stop, it sits flat against the back of the keelbox.
You can see the thin strip of sunlight from the water next to the keel. it's rather unnerving to be staring at the ocean looking down inside your cabin table.

Fingers crossed it all goes well. I can wait to get it out and fix the leak, I hate anything leaking, especially hydraulics .





Diagram to showing where and what the camera is looking at.