Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2017 20:33:39 GMT
As we all know boats and houses are never finished, Foxy is permanently changing his oil so that will keep him busy and not need to post too much on this thread 🚢⚓🍻 I've got a fair few little jobs to tickle away at, some of which are on hold until after we have had our annual pilgrimage to the Great Ouse. I have had time to knock up a new top for the fridge housing, the current one is a nasty fake wood type melamine coated bit of ply. The new one is one of my standard stripwood edged bits of ply treated to a lick of ronseal woodstain. The varnished ply next to it is a new base for the dinnete seat, a slight drip on the starboard window has done for the original ply that was not edged. I also had to replace the batten it sits on. Window out job when we go in the paint dock in October then Both are in my garage drying ready to be fitted at the weekend, the Alfa is sat in the rain to make space 😢 What small jobs have the rest of you tackled?
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2017 20:41:55 GMT
Quite a bit of prep work to be done on the gunnels before slapping more paint on.
The boats out for blacking in September so some dry weather over the next four or five weeks would be good.
Mind you if it's wet I have some sanding and varnishing inside to do.
Such fun.
Rog
|
|
|
Post by Andyberg on Jul 28, 2017 20:56:16 GMT
Been a bit of a busy but irritating year..
Fit Webasto central heating boiler so I now have webasto or bubblestove choice
Fit and scumble aux kerosene heating tank on roof ( but still not plumbed it in yet...ongoing!!)
Revarnished roof and rear cabin scumbling
Sort generator raw water cooling pipe burst and subsequent knackered pump hassles / problems
Fit new batteries
Locate sudden water leak to burst colorifier joint..... currently ' isolated' and I'm living with cold water only...hopefully solder it this weekend after stripping washer out to gain access 🙄
Who said living on a boat was cheap and easy??
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2017 20:56:57 GMT
Varnishing is as good a reason as any not to have a proper wooden boat!
The base isn't on show, I've done a reasonable job with it but I'll be the first to admit it's not a flawless glass like finish - life's to short for that, a billion costs of flatted and thinned varnish, no bloody chance!
It's the main reason why I've gone over to woodstain in the cockpit, the thought of sorting out 50 years of indifferently treated varnish was too much to contemplate! Sadolin used to be good but they seem to have taken most of the VOC'S out that made it so good! The Ronseal stuff is not bad, not as good as the original Sadolin but not as eye wateringly expensive as some of the more exotic gear that's available.
Seeing as she gets a month in the paint dock every two years it doesn't matter much anyway!
|
|
|
Post by Andyberg on Jul 28, 2017 21:04:03 GMT
I've still not varnished the boat interior despite having lived on it now for 3.5 years 🙄🙄
think that hat will be a 'rainy day' job when I finally give up and go CC ing!
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2017 21:07:22 GMT
Been a bit of a busy but irritating year.. Fit Webasto central heating boiler so I now have webasto or bubblestove choice Fit and scumble aux kerosene heating tank on roof ( but still not plumbed it in yet...ongoing!!) Revarnished roof and rear cabin scumbling Sort generator raw water cooling pipe burst and subsequent knackered pump hassles / problems Fit new batteries Locate sudden water leak to burst colorifier joint..... currently ' isolated' and I'm living with cold water only...hopefully solder it this weekend after stripping washer out to gain access 🙄 Who said living on a boat was cheap and easy?? All that and getting you and your bike ready to take the old gits class by storm next weekend 💪👍
|
|
|
Post by patty on Jul 28, 2017 21:17:25 GMT
Dare i mention the Japanese invader waits?.....just gotta sort out the goat issue.....
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2017 21:27:57 GMT
Any developments on the tug front?
Sorry, just nosey.
Rog
|
|
|
Post by Telemachus on Jul 28, 2017 21:28:34 GMT
Where to start!!! Well yesterday I fitted a new mains socket in the engine room. Going to the Hudson gathering at Glascote cost me dear as our neighbours demonstrated their new Dyson V6 vacuum thingy. Despite memories of "DustBuster" etc, I must say we were very impressed and bought one. So, with only 1 mains socket in the engine room - that would be permanently tied up with the V6 charger - I needed to fit another one. Marked back box outline, cut two sides with jigsaw, couldn't cut other two side with jigsaw due to lack of space so had to used the lots-of-slightly-overlapping-holes technique. Fitted back box, socket, 1.8m arctic cable and patched it in to the socket at the foot of the bed. Job done, reassuring blue light on V6 charger. Rewarded with a nice G&T
|
|
|
Post by faffer on Jul 28, 2017 21:31:01 GMT
You really bloody asking ??
|
|
|
Post by Andyberg on Jul 28, 2017 21:35:46 GMT
Any developments on the tug front? Sorry, just nosey. Rog Lollygagger has been see the chap at Swanley Bridge and has had impressive feedback and pricing so it's on my thinking 'to do' list, not going rush it! .I'm going do more research and the like as to what I'm wanting to achieve!!
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2017 21:37:32 GMT
Thanks. If you go ahead you'll be overtakjng foxy's post count keeping us updated Rog
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2017 21:55:45 GMT
Where to start!!! Well yesterday I fitted a new mains socket in the engine room. Going to the Hudson gathering at Glascote cost me dear as our neighbours demonstrated their new Dyson V6 vacuum thingy. Despite memories of "DustBuster" etc, I must say we were very impressed and bought one. So, with only 1 mains socket in the engine room - that would be permanently tied up with the V6 charger - I needed to fit another one. Marked back box outline, cut two sides with jigsaw, couldn't cut other two side with jigsaw due to lack of space so had to used the lots-of-slightly-overlapping-holes technique. Fitted back box, socket, 1.8m arctic cable and patched it in to the socket at the foot of the bed. Job done, reassuring blue light on V6 charger. Rewarded with a nice G&T We've got an older DC30, had it about 3 years now, I couldn't be without it, especially having bonehead onboard. Secret to an efficient dyson is to clean the filter regularly and blast the cyclone thingy with compressed air. I do mine at work, but a can of compressed air will do well enough. Our DC14 is 13 years old and sucks like a good un still, the marketing bollocks of no loss of suction should be ignored, but with a little maintenance and care they are good bits of kit.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2017 22:07:00 GMT
You really bloody asking ?? Your epic rightly deserves it's own thread
|
|
|
Post by Gone on Jul 28, 2017 22:29:52 GMT
Where to start!!! Well yesterday I fitted a new mains socket in the engine room. Going to the Hudson gathering at Glascote cost me dear as our neighbours demonstrated their new Dyson V6 vacuum thingy. Despite memories of "DustBuster" etc, I must say we were very impressed and bought one. So, with only 1 mains socket in the engine room - that would be permanently tied up with the V6 charger - I needed to fit another one. Marked back box outline, cut two sides with jigsaw, couldn't cut other two side with jigsaw due to lack of space so had to used the lots-of-slightly-overlapping-holes technique. Fitted back box, socket, 1.8m arctic cable and patched it in to the socket at the foot of the bed. Job done, reassuring blue light on V6 charger. Rewarded with a nice G&T You need a pad saw for those narrow spaces where a jigsaw don't fit. Much neater and quicker than drilling a series of holes, and doesn't cost more than a couple of G&Ts in a posh pub. www.toolstation.com/shop/p76863
|
|