Wooden Boat Restoration

Hi Butch

i can only go down your side after the 12th of Dec
how are you for Mon / Tue = 15 / 16 Dec & say 2 nights???

i will take you up on the accomodation offer thnx - wont have time for Richards Bay.

i would love to go and visit Wynand - SOON
how about we ask him if he could put up with us for a Saturday evening
i have some work to do down that side
i could meet in Welkom any Saturday at lunch time and then come back home Sunday morning

get your rear in gear and lets go and see WARATAH
i must have a picture of myself next to that bloomin rudder
scotch and ice in hand:idea:

 

Hi Manie. OK I think those dates will be fine,lets make a provisional note. PM me your phone number please.

 

Why didn't any body tell me how f....ing difficult it is to fit 2mm sheath: . Any way point off for all of you ,first layer on second tomorrow . No! no photos untill I have cleaned it up. Oh! by the way where the heck was every for the last week no fighting no bull no nothing.The economy is fu@ed there is nothing you can do so post crap cause fights it will cheer you up.Ouch chair just collapsed.

 

Spent 9 hrs crouched doing this

 

Butch you are doing 100% better than me at the moment

i have simply hit a brick wall

cant moan too much very busy at work

basically slept the whole weekend - should have more energy tommorrow

went and looked at Fanie's cnc laser cutter that he is building - bloody fantastic

 

Hoesit boet

to the rest of you that is "howzit my brother"

i am drawing a "lekker" dinghy for us

for you the price of a full set of my kak drawings will be a "castle"

i recon i will built it for 2k

full on self bailing - so that when i am dronk at the dam i know my dinghy will float when i sink

maybe sprit sloop

 

As we say in Natal: Bring and come and all. I think this assosiation will bear fruit.Dronk kop galop en al dardie dinge. Lekker boot Manie hoe groot? For all those who did not understand what I just said: dit is te ..kin bad vir jou

 

now you see when we are on this here boat wiff all us beers

and she sinks down to 300 mm

she can carry one ton

you can row - i will steer

at least we should be able to get to your boat were it is anchored in the harbour

with all that beer

we can still moon all them other buggers

 

I see that you are also a bit quiet on the boat building side

i suppose it is also the last minute rush to get all the "paying" work done before the December shut down

dont feel alone if this is the case
it frustrates the daylights out of me
my bloomin job is interfering with my boat building beeeeg time

go well sport - see ya in December

and bloody hell - we will have to drag our lazy arses over to Wynand - the man is making us look like weaklings - maybe if we go have a beer with him we could tap of some of that energy !!! his stuff is sure looking good

 

Howzit Manie not a lot to show right now mostly framing no damatics there.Got a good eight hours in today. Have you seen the price of oak I need about 25m for sisters and so on.I may be cheeper to put ally sisters in the boat . I am going to epoxy the frames in the morning I'll post some photos in the evening.

 

Done this today.Underlay on the fore deck gave it a coat of epoxy just in time for a mini dust storm.But what the @#uk have to sand it again anyway.

 

Hi Butch please contact me i got a new phone so i cant find your number

 

Ok you lot this is me after putting / fitting a third of the veneer sheath. I'll post photos of the boat tomorrw if it is not raining again .I have got more sika on me than the boat I have found a reliable supplier of marine ply and wood products. Wynand,Fanie and Manie D&A timbers can supply BS standard ply in most sizes,copper clouts bronz screws and nails,Epoxys ,resins and so on,It is almost the same distance to Pinetown as from Welkom to JHB

 

"As far as the restoration goes it is somthing I need to do(for myself)"

hope that you are feeling better now mate......boatbuilding certainly os theraputic isn't it!

 

Landy this is the best thing I have ever spent money on.