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Post by peterboat on Jul 11, 2020 12:55:36 GMT
Thanks everyone - really appreciate the community on here - always smart and a bit of daft thrown in too! Launching around 1st, suspect I'll be on the forum quite a bit again now! Let's hope we can all enjoy the season at long last! T. Good, where are you based i you dont me asking? enjoy your boating I know I have for the last 16 years
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Post by quaysider on Jul 11, 2020 19:20:52 GMT
This has reminded me of all the stress I went through at the time Ellis went in the water for the first time... she's only slim, but was 7 years savings hanging on a sling. Looking back (and watching a load more since then in the real world) i needn't have been so worried... thunderboat.boards.net/thread/816/ellis-crane-launch-dayI hope things go well - deep breaths and it'll be over in no time.
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Post by duncan on Jul 11, 2020 22:42:17 GMT
This has reminded me of all the stress I went through at the time Ellis went in the water for the first time... she's only slim, but was 7 years savings hanging on a sling. Looking back (and watching a load more since then in the real world) i needn't have been so worried... thunderboat.boards.net/thread/816/ellis-crane-launch-dayI hope things go well - deep breaths and it'll be over in no time. I think we all lived through that one with you. I can't believe it is coming up to 4 years ago.
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Post by thebfg on Jul 12, 2020 6:25:56 GMT
4 years! Blimey.
Twiggy, best of luck. I am sure it will be fine. Better get some champers and celebrate once its in.
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Post by patty on Jul 12, 2020 7:51:44 GMT
4 years! Blimey. Twiggy, best of luck. I am sure it will be fine. Better get some champers and celebrate once its in. Champers goes very well with pizza or chips n a dip...or maybe a cake.... Enjoy.... I remember my boat swung in, scary but great to see her in the water
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jul 15, 2020 20:36:30 GMT
. . . . . . . . . . never been in the water before. In that case then, there are some important tasks and checks that you MUST do, or have done, before this boat goes into the water ! I see from your previous posts on the TB forum that you've been completing fitting-out the boat yourself at Redhill Marina, so I'm assuming that it's the marina who will be launching it for you. I don't know what terms of business Redhill trade under, they could be British Marine ToB's or terms concocted by the marina proprietor himself, but in common with every other boatyard or marina in or round the UK, the ToB's under which your boat is launched will stipulate, amongst numerous other 'get out' clauses, that vessels are stored, moved, slipped/docked, or launched solely at the owner's risk. Leaving aside, for the moment, the question of correct ballasting, hull openings and the LWL once afloat, . . . high on the list for causing serious problems, including sinkings, and giving rise to unsuccessful insurance claims in respect of first time launches of new or re-fitted pleasure craft is water leakage from weed hatch top covers, and through missing or defective sterngear (tailshaft) packing and sterntube remote greaser connections.
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