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Post by Jim on May 12, 2017 12:31:45 GMT
Well it's two years since I started work on my boat, beginning with dry dock and survey. I'm booked into Hebden Bridge dry dock on Monday morning. I've bought Keelblack water based bitumen and a litre of fertan for any really bad bits. Also got a rotoblaster 3 wheel stripper to use at least around the waterline. It will be interesting to see how the base plate has fared, I blacked it because the pound I moored in often drops and leaves me sitting on the bottom with o2 getting to the baseplate. Prior to my work 2 years ago the boat hadn't been blacked for 10 years when she had been overplated but was ok on survey.
I'm renaming her too, not because she is out of the water but it's licence renewal time, I'm not superstitious anyway. Currently "Marsh Wiggle" after the depressed creatures in Narnia, I'm calling her "Bittern's Boom" a unique name of our invention. We named our last boat that, but the mate I sold her to has renamed her, so the name was going spare. Also got a full width car roof box to fit, to store some of the carp off the roof and back cabin. It's taken a month to source the key from Halfords. It was locked with no key,cheap as chips from a neighbour, over £200 new.
I'll post some updates next week.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2017 12:40:42 GMT
Statistically speaking, renaming a boat is just as likely to result in good luck as bad luck. Its all a bit random.
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Post by naughtyfox on May 12, 2017 14:22:06 GMT
I'm calling her "Bittern's Boom" Why not call her "Rosie and Jim" ? You can change your wife's name to Rosie
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Post by JohnV on May 12, 2017 15:16:26 GMT
I'm calling her "Bittern's Boom" Lovely name !!! I heard that, for the first time in my life, when I was cruising the fens last summer ...... incredible sound
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Post by Jim on May 12, 2017 15:22:56 GMT
I'm calling her "Bittern's Boom" Why not call her "Rosie and Jim" ? You can change your wife's name to Rosie And then immolate ourselves! I was given a pair, 30" high, might be best used as front and rear fenders.
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Post by naughtyfox on May 12, 2017 15:51:59 GMT
That's not a word you hear very often, is it? Immolate. I had to look it up! (there's no shame in not knowing something, the shame comes when you can't be bothered to find out)
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Post by patty on May 12, 2017 16:45:57 GMT
I had Rosie and Jim dolls..grand daughter had never heard of them so now they are Topsy and tim..
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Post by Clinton Cool on May 12, 2017 18:47:51 GMT
I saw Boaty McBoatface the other day. I thought it had been changed in favour of David Attenborough but no, there it was, in its narrowboat glory.
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Post by tadworth on May 12, 2017 19:27:02 GMT
Don't be tempted to listen to maniacs that tell you you need eight coats of bitumen, more than two is not better its worse, the bond of the first coat is what matters, onto very dry steel, thinned down so that it flows into all the nooks and crannies.
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Post by lollygagger on May 12, 2017 20:07:15 GMT
With car paint, them what knows say the thinner the better. The thicker it is the more easily it chips.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2017 20:24:34 GMT
I hate blacking.
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Post by JohnV on May 12, 2017 20:49:25 GMT
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Post by naughtyfox on May 13, 2017 6:01:39 GMT
Ahh - so that's what members of that Shropshire society get up to when they're not slagging off Morris Dancers! Caught red-handed! Err.... I mean... black-faced!
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Post by quaysider on May 13, 2017 6:09:08 GMT
I'm glad you're using keelblack - did I read somewhere you can paint over it?> - I don't mean the whole lot obviously but as I plan to do Ellis with it next spring, I'd rather have a glossy finish above the waterline...
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Post by Jim on May 13, 2017 6:11:30 GMT
Don't be tempted to listen to maniacs that tell you you need eight coats of bitumen, more than two is not better its worse, the bond of the first coat is what matters, onto very dry steel, thinned down so that it flows into all the nooks and crannies. I'm not using traditional bitumen, keelblack is water based,it sets hard. 3 thin coats , it says on the destructions.
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