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please note that inappropriate comments will be deletedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692510694702392104.post-31615055911832507332011-09-23T12:59:00.000+01:002011-09-23T12:59:19.168+01:00Added Pictures...Better late than never!<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have the technology! Finally I am able to take pictures again. So here are the few I have to add to the previous blog entry.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A wee pic of a very tatty bow... with some undercoat. I mentioned about starting jobs and not finishing them in a previous blog, well here is a fine example. I started stripping back the wood and then the rain came on, ultimately the job was forgotten about and no doubt will have to be re-done at some point. </span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the first picture of the wheelhouse with her undercoat on. You can see the 'pelmet' is still untouched, but how long do I leave it for? The hatch cover on the deck is over the space where the first set of planks have been removed. I will add photo's later with the deck opened up.</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another view of the bow. The rope coming off the bow into the water is actually attached to a chain and anchor. You can just see the chain poking above the water. I put this out as the weather here has been b*&^**^ awful recently. It has worked pretty well as its held her out from the wall since it was put on.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Well that's it for the moment. Weather permitting I should be down over the next few days to carry on with the deck removal and if I can get some help I will hopefully start re nailing her soon as well. Any volunteers?? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Well, where are we??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I have still been working away on the deck and wheelhouse (More about the hull in a bit). I started by continuing to removed the paintwork from the deck up to the gunwale top, oiling and then undercoating. This has been a very slow process and virtually every time I get down to her, the rain starts! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm beginning to have a lack of sense of humour these days when it comes to the rain.. I seem to go down when its favourable, and yes I do check the forecast, then an hour later the heavens open and it starts to drizzle or rain. I don't mind getting wet too much myself, but the tools don't like it, especially the power tools I use for the paint stripping! The generator would probably be ok, but I'm not happy with 240 volt cables getting soaked on deck.</span> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sure it would make for an interesting view of me going up in a blue spark!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So what I have been doing when unable to strip paint or use power tools? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I have started to remove the deck planking above the engine so as to arrange its removal. I have already lifted the deck where it had been cut in days gone by for access and last week I cut a new line where I am going to take the deck further back. I had hoped to get that part of the deck removed today, but its chucking it down again...I may get down later... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">When that part of the deck is removed then it should be straight forward to get the engine more or less lifted straight out. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ok, so when was anything straight forward on a boat?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As to the wheelhouse. As I have mentioned before, the wheelhouse has now been completely stripped back to the metal and primed with red oxide. I finally managed to finish the roof area a couple of weeks ago and primed that also. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Of course, I still have to have the 'pelmet' above the windows cut back, this is mainly due to the fact that the engineer (who has more or less promised me his 'first born' because he is taking so long) is still too busy to get down and finish the job off.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Now to be fair to the engineer, he is not charging me for his time (I do cover his costs though!)and he does have to come a long way to get to the Lady. However, this 'saga' has been going on for six months now and that's been the main reason for not painting the wheelhouse. I figured that if I painted it and he came along with his 'still saw', the paintwork would be tarnished and have to either be re-done or would prove to be a problem in the future.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I am hoping that the undercoat will not be damaged too much by the grinding down of the pelmet.... watch this space I guess.. I'm not going to go into detail about the two holes in the roof that were supposed to be welded up as well....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Right the hull! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">About two weeks ago I decided to move the boat back up the beach about 20 feet. she has been sitting in a 'trench' that she has created with the movement during heavier weather and the Lady really had to get out of it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I managed to get myself wound up to the point I was convinced that she was sitting at such an angle that her back might break. After moving her, I realised that it was the way she had dug herself into the trench that was causing the illusion of a 'bent keel', there was absolutely nothing wrong with the way she was.... You could hear my sigh of relief from the other side of the bay I am sure! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Lady was surprising easy to lift again (After a wee bit trial and error). I tried to lift her with just the 3 inch pump on the first day, which was a silly mistake. She had been sitting for nearly four months without me touching the hull since the last time I had to pump her out after the storm when she went over onto her side. Of course some of the caulking had been washed out and also two or three more planks had become loose since then.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">So basically on the second day I went down and re-caulked the open seams and hammered in the nails on the loose planks. This did the trick fine and she lifted with the 3 inch pump barely ticking over. It was only after two hours afloat did I have to start throttling up and even then the pump was never overwhelmed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">From that exercise I now know where all the major leaks are and where much of the re-nailing is required.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">It was sad on the third day when I had to go and pull out a few of the seams again in order to stop her floating. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Note that I have been allowing the sea water to drain in and out of her, mainly because it stops her from moving up and down with the tide as if she was fully floating every second wave would cause her to 'pound' off the sea bed. She is much safer and less likely to be damaged sitting upright and on the sea bed at all states of the tides.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Of course this has to change...Due to finances amongst other things I have been slow in working on the hull and getting it watertight. That has to change imminently as I HAVE to move her away from the harbour, there is no way she will survive another storm in the corner where she is at present..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Thankfully, the nails have arrived as well as the tools for drilling out and countersinking them. Now all I need is more sealant to be able to re-caulk and some help and advice as to how to do it with causing more problems than I have already!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Hopefully pictures and more information very soon!!</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692510694702392104.post-2665713264098262852011-07-25T17:34:00.001+01:002011-07-25T17:37:39.097+01:00July, How do you estimate?<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How do you estimate the time it takes to do a project? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is now coming towards the end of July and I am about three months behind where I wanted to be with the Lady Evelyn restoration project. Whilst I can blame the weather, tides and a myriad of other things, it really comes down to me and what I thought or think I can do within the time I estimate it takes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">For example, the boat wheelhouse was almost ready to be painted in April. All that had to be done was the last roof panel, yet here I am in July saying the same thing. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The roof is about 90% completed, but its not finished.. That last panel was left because the boat went over onto her side again, then the engineer doing the welding has not come back to finish off the last wee bit and then my own generator decided to die. Not to mention that the pelmet has yet to cut back as well.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Most of you reading are probably thinking that I procrastinate about painting or getting on with other jobs but here is my reason for not painting. If I apply the undercoat (wheelhouse is already primed) and then two topcoats of gloss and the engineer comes back to grind/weld etc then all the paintwork that has been done around those ares will be tarnished and burned. I also believe that no matter how hard you try, cutting in paintwork at a later date makes for a weak point as well as often leaving a slight off colour between the new and older paint.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the subject of painting, most of the work carried out over the past few weeks has been the removal of old paint and then the priming of the cleaned up area. The job was made considerably easier by the purchase of a small grinder along with sanding discs. This makes life so much easier when trying to take away rust that has bitten deep into the metal work. taking it off by hand was a very slow and painful process.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sadly my wee generator died about three days after getting the grinding tool. I found it very difficult to start and then on closer examination I found a major leak of oil from around the head. Between that and over tightening the carburettor bolt and destroying its 'seat' inside the bowl. It was given the 'heave ho' and a new one purchased.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A note on the new generator, I have to say a huge thank you to my fiance for getting it for me. It's demise came at the wrong time for me financially and she stepped in and got me up and running again through the powers of Mr eBay. Thank you princess!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXGB7_MSY4wvmwhc0Qg6Lr-oF9DQ1oBidAwxYuzsE167Z9JyGLP1JlBXjGe79x8c-wJwzCe4ZffCLxZpFxQ65sjTeeDmVQNMw_NKI_zowgnixYyaEp2eK7Nc5aNl5BAhxBzRttHo7_hG71/s1600/grinding+metalwork.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXGB7_MSY4wvmwhc0Qg6Lr-oF9DQ1oBidAwxYuzsE167Z9JyGLP1JlBXjGe79x8c-wJwzCe4ZffCLxZpFxQ65sjTeeDmVQNMw_NKI_zowgnixYyaEp2eK7Nc5aNl5BAhxBzRttHo7_hG71/s320/grinding+metalwork.JPG" t$="true" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is me working away with the grinder and our original generator before its demise.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the things you can't really see was the fact that between Bob and myself we managed to remove the old beds for the winches. This has cleared up the deck no end and its amazing how much space this seems to have left. The beds were held in place my steel threaded rods, although not high tensile, they were bolted up hard under the deck and through the cross beams. We took a sledge hammer to the tops and knocked them through, using another slightly smaller rod to push it through. There was a satisfying 'clunk' every time one was knocked through and it hit the engine underneath.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The only bits of wood left to come off the deck are on the stern where the base of the davit's that held the trawl doors is located. To think of that, I might make that the next job.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The removed wood is surprisingly heavy and still in pretty good condition. I have hung onto them as they might be useful somewhere along the line.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have included a picture of the wheelhouse and its various stages of paint work below. The only parts left to be done is the </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">removal of the last part of the radar, the stripping back of the last of the roof above the wheelhouse itself and the pelmet. I should say a huge thank you to my youngest son Aonghas here who spent literally hours chipping away the roof without a single word of complaint. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To the right of the last picture at the bottom, you can see the runner for the wires bolted to the side of the gunwale. These have all now been removed as well. All the metalwork that was redundant on the deck was cut away by Bob from Ardrishaig, who has an engineering company based there.</span> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bob also welded up much of the rest of the metal work that was needing done including the mast, the new step going into the wheelhouse and finally patching up funnel casing on the wheelhouse roof (Yet to be finished). It was Bob who also dealt with re-welding up the leg after that storm!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That 'infamous' leg! Now bolted and properly welded in place.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So that almost brings everything up to date. The job I recently started was the stripping down of the woodwork above the deck and into the corner of the gunwales. It can be half done with the grinder but you have to be very careful and not let the grinder (With sanding disc attachment) run away with itself as it eats into the wood very quickly. Once it has been stripped and cleaned I soak it with a 50-50 mix of Linseed oil and White spirit. After that I will coat it with wood primer and then undercoat/tops coats etc.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The job is quite a slow one as the areas being done are not the easiest in the world to get at. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So watch this space for pictures of that process.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With regards to the hull and getting her afloat and onto a mooring. I have priced the five inch nails and they came in at a very reasonable £260 for 200, delivered to the house. So my next capital purchase will be for them. Then finally we can start to re-nail her and get the hull finished. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have had several long conversations with people about the nailing process and I am not as distressed about the whole process as I was six months ago. I have been given good sound advice from various people (you know who you are!) and they are happy to come and show me how to do it as well, which is great.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am so looking forward to ripping out the old caulking and re-nailing, only to re-caulk it again... (Not!)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One final thing to mention. The vessel is going back to her original name of the 'Bountiful' . Once I have finished the wheelhouse painting and cleaned up the bow, her name will be put back the way it originally was. She may also get her fishing numbers put back on, albeit with a wee red line through them, but that's under discussion at the moment. Ill also make sure her 'shamrock' luck line is restored to its full glory as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sorry should have mentioned! You can now view this blog on your mobile phone, it actually looks quite good as well.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Until my next entry!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Aye.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692510694702392104.post-18400049540168978162011-05-31T17:58:00.000+01:002011-05-31T17:58:25.091+01:00A waste of time....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyE4wCz4iIcziGbHfBic6Z4UD9Y3CY2vx04u3DXPmYV7lMSu3AqksPy1ReYyfkrqxxnjgivco2-saRZxXhSo53CzsbUeMtN82khIkXIhcHCLpBWg-1PnSQQ2rsrJV5l45HQqIYjTEDz4xn/s1600/Lady+Evelyne+31st+May+015.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyE4wCz4iIcziGbHfBic6Z4UD9Y3CY2vx04u3DXPmYV7lMSu3AqksPy1ReYyfkrqxxnjgivco2-saRZxXhSo53CzsbUeMtN82khIkXIhcHCLpBWg-1PnSQQ2rsrJV5l45HQqIYjTEDz4xn/s320/Lady+Evelyne+31st+May+015.JPG" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">This was the picture that greeted me when I went down last Monday during the storm that hit us. The steel leg had sheared off and she was awash, sadly she is lying over on her starboard side again and all the caulking that I had spent many hours putting in had blown out from the deck and the Port side as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One step forward and three steps back....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Well these things happen... What can you do?? I took some pictures and went home. There was no point in worrying or standing for hours with a tear in my eye whilst she was battered around. This was the teeth of a force ten and blowing from the south west, the one direction that spells disaster for any vessel laying where the lady is at present.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">sadly when I went down later that day she had settled on her side again this time she has an 'H' beam sitting under her and (at the time) I had no idea if any damage had been done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I couldn't see for the best part of a week as to whether any damage had been done to the hull by this. But going on today's quick inspection... It appears that the leg has buried itself in the shingle and is not bent through the hull. Its going to be fun digging the thing out now as it all has to go back on again over the next few days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Previously to this, I had managed to get two thirds of the wheelhouse stripped and painted with red oxide. It was looking very good and the last side of the Lady was about to sanded for painting, then of course the storm happened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The port side, the aft of the wheelhouse and the top half of the front is done and ready for undercoat. However I was waiting to complete the whole lot before starting that. Now that will have to wait until she is back upright and level.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Here are a few more pictures of the damage and the boat during the storm.</span><br />
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</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The only other damage to the vessel seemed to be in two places. The first was the fact that the protecting steel that is nailed to the hull to save the wood from nets etc was torn out and left hanging. This was difficult to understand as to how this happened as it was nailed tight to the hull. I think its because the movement in the hull put strain on the nails and they just popped.</span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The second area is on the stern and its post, there is at least five or so planks that are no longer tight to the stern post. i guess the movement caused them to part. More fastening and re-nailing methinks.</span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial;">To look on the positive side of things, it could have been a hell of a lot worse. She is in a killer berth and the people who originally put her there knew this. Since taking her over and trying to move her, many comments have been made as to 'what the h"%l was I thinking' putting her in there in the first place! Since I had nothing to do with that I can only comment on my existing issues, like how quickly I can get her somewhere safe.</span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm tempted to have a rant here about the certain individuals who have read this blog and made telephone calls to the 'Powers' about the possible movements of the vessel and its legality. Well, since you couldn't/cant be bothered to come and have an informal chat to me about it, you can whistle. I mean going behind backs and complaining like a 'tattle tale', come on! I forgot that we live in such a small minded place sometimes..... oh well</span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Finally as to my heading! Yes to you 'Anonymous' this project might be a waste of time, but its not your time its wasting. If you read the blog in its entirety you will have perhaps learned something and therefor not wasted your own time! </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Productive and useful comments are welcomed, ones like 'What a waste of time'.... well your entitled to your opinion but why waste it here?</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692510694702392104.post-36189006069012550662011-04-26T21:57:00.000+01:002011-04-26T21:57:25.796+01:00An update, long overdue!<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time seems to pass by very quickly these days!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We have had a bit of a disaster with the Lady after fitting her new leg. It goes something like this.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We managed to fit a brand new 12 x 6 leg to her which was slightly to long. I hadn't measured her properly and was 'estimating' what I thought was the correct length. This is a very deceiving business when your on your own. I thought the leg looked rather short when I measured up, so I added about four feet to my original length. This was a big mistake. When she sat upright and settled with the tide, she had heeled over to port quite considerably and this caused her to lean into the sea wall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can see she is heeling over to Port and is tight against the wall. This was not what I had hoped but I had got the measurement very wrong. You can also see that the leg is made up of six 12 x 2 planks bolted together. Whilst this held absolutely fine it is not recommended that any else attempts this, the original order was for solid sleepers but these became unavailable at the last minute and I felt under pressure to get things moving. The planks were bolted three together and then two sections lashed. On the whole it was great to get the boat up, but not so great that the whole measurement business had gone to hell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Obviously you can see this was far from satisfactory so I managed to get hold of the long awaited telegraph poles. This was in fact one of my better ideas and I had taken advice on the strength of the poles as well. However...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Here is Richard holding the line from the keel out, this was a pretty accurate way of measuring as you can see in later pictures. The original leg was marked and the new telegraph pole leg was drilled to the first steel bar from that measurement. Sadly I didn't get a picture of her sitting level after the leg was fitted. However.......</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What you cant see here is that the leg has actually under the boat. There is a rock under the seaweed which is angled under the boat. This has basically caused the pole to buckle as it slid down the rock, again I don't have a picture of digging it out (which took some effort!). It was buried into the sea bed by about two feet.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">What you can also see is the high tensile steel bars (HT Bars) that have cut through the telegraph pole like a hot knife through butter. This could have been averted by 'banding' the wood by putting a ring of steel around the pole above and especially below where the HT bars went through.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This happened on a Saturday night and I had arranged for an engineer to come and remove the corroded metal on Sunday. Whilst his visit was a waist of time for getting onto the boat, in other ways things worked out. Silver cloud and grey lining and all that.... We managed to have a think and decided that he would make up an H-Beam if we could get the material. Now Sunday is not the best day in Oban to find something like an H-Beam (To be honest I actually didn't hold up much chance of finding one in Oban full stop!) however Bob (the engineer) actually knew a few wee backwater yards where things like that are stored. After a tour we came across two 8 foot lengths and surprise surprise the actual owner of the H-beams as well! I explained what had happened and between tears and sobs (OK not quite!) he agreed to give me them. I have to say a big thank you to John for allowing me to have them at no cost, it is much appreciated!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">So Bob spent the rest of the day welding up the beam and fitting a foot so we would not have a repeat of the 'digging in' issue that had killed off the telegraph pole.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The fitting of the beam was a nightmare for me. I cant lift much as (you are probably aware of my pathetic back issues) you know, so Bob had to do much of the 'grunt' work, however a Farm foods trolley that had been salvaged from the sea came in very handy for rolling it the length of the pier!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It was then slid down the deck and over the side, with the use of a block and tackle it was hoisted into place so that it would cantilever into place when the boat lifted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The boat lifting was a huge issue. I had tried the day before to lift her on one pump. But I had to switch it off for a few moments whilst the tide was rising and there was no way to recover from the ingress of water. The following day when Bob was there I tried again and used both pumps. This made no odds either. It was then that I realised that I had much bigger problems than I had anticipated. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">When the Lady Evelyn had gone over, she had managed to move about three feet further out and had laid down on the same rock that had caused the telegraph pole to buckle. This was putting a huge amount of pressure on the seams and in turn was causing a lot of water to come in. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I honestly though t that this was the end of the project. I knew that if I couldn't get the boat to lift the next day then that was the end for me, I could not and can not afford to have a professional salvage team involved to right her and I was thinking that this was perhaps the only way she was coming up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Luckily I was on my own on the third attempt. I came down early when the tide was just retreating from the hull and I watched where the water was coming out. I then marked all the areas and worked like a Trojan to get all the seams re caulked that were leaking. It was then that I also noticed that there was a seam just below the last rubbing strake at the top of the last plank which had no caulking what-so-ever. This seam had been filled with putty that had gone solid, but had no oakum or cotton caulking material behind it, this left a twenty foot length of open seam at least 50mm wide letting in water then above this I also noticed that the deck had the same issue. Where the deck was tight against the gunwale there was little or no caulking, let alone pitch, stopping water getting in. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">When the boat lifts the water will come to the top of the last plank and splash onto the deck, the previous day the water was coming well over the deck and causing her not to lift.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">With all this done... she lifted as though nothing was wrong and on one pump! Well I believe that and the fact I told her that if she didn't come up then that was me done and she was going for scrap!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">You can see from the next photo that she is upright and absolutely level.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the tide the beam levered into place and Bob came back and welded her up (Thanks Bob... More about him in a later blog). I took the added precaution of welding the leg directly to the Metal tops on the gunwale. I reckon that if Bobs welds hold then the whole side of the vessel will come out before the leg bends or breaks!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">She is now sitting perfectly level and the weight is directly on the keel, so much so that there is a gap between the harbour wall and the gunwale, the first time ever!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So that's her upright! and the saga that went with it. We have yet to put on the Port side leg. This is wooden, but will be reinforced unlike its counterpart on the Starboard side. But that's another day! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">You can see that I have started to strip off the paintwork and rust. The back of the wheelhouse took three days to complete with a hammer and coal chisel... but again that's another story!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">More soon when I have finished the Port side of the wheelhouse (When I say finished I mean stripped and primed!).</span><br />
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<div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692510694702392104.post-62685832786156890082011-04-05T21:30:00.000+01:002011-04-05T21:30:19.200+01:00Upright at last!<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally we have managed to get the Lady upright and level!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Two days in a row she has been floating with minimal effort from the pump. A joy to behold...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The wood for both temporary legs was delivered last week but instead of using it for both sides I decided to use the whole lot for the Starboard side, this gives dimensions for the leg at six by twelve inches. I don't think that she needs too much in the way of support on the port side at present as the starboard side has historically been the heaviest and she is leaning on the harbour wall with her port side. The two telegraph poles allegedly get delivered this weekend so they will be fitted properly shortly after. The plus point, in the exercise so far, is that I am able to get very accurate measurements for the length on the legs (since I didn't know what the draft was) which should make for a simple and hopefully quick crossover.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I would like to say a big 'thank you' to Richard who is one of the volunteers that I mentioned in a previous blog. Richard came down on both the days to help out with the lashings and manhandling of wood and the Lady. Between us we managed to get her ballasted and levelled out, the boat moved into deeper water and its his pump that he donated to the project. His pump looks hellish cosmetically and has an old style starter chord however, it works a treat and was 'puttering' away in the back ground for most of the two days. Unlike my all-singing and all-dancing piece of junk that seems to block if the wind changes!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Another 'Thank you' has to go to the guys at the council yard who were kind enough to let me borrow six wheelie bins in order to ballast her to starboard. I was also given two 45 gallon plastic drums as well. Without those drums and bins there was no-way I could have got her level. Some of the suggestions for ballasting her have ranged from lowering ton bags of the cheapest aggregate from the builders merchants to buying two two ton mooring blocks and having them lowered to the deck. The wheelie bins were the best option given that they were easy to move and filled up in seconds with the three inch pump. It was good to get an e-mail from Archie who had the same epiphany during the night regarding the wheelie bins and many thanks to him for the offers of help and advice as well. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The wheelie bins are not so easy to empty though as they weighed a ton and had to be half emptied by bucket before they could be tipped. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">If my son, yes he's getting the blame despite the fact that he worked VERY hard yesterday, had put them round the other way they would have tipped straight back but he left them hard against the gunwale and to be honest I didn't even think about emptying them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">It would have been too much hassle to use the pump and to be fair it only really took another ten minutes in the great scheme of things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Lady is now sitting, more or less, level and is easier to access. The next job to do is to fit a wheelhouse door and then to scrape the decks in order to stop them behaving like an ice rink!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We also managed to get a good look under the starboard side of the Lady, which is really the first time I have had to have a proper look. I cant see any 'sprung planks' or 'but ends' that are pulling out, its not that they are not there though. There was plenty of seams leaking I noticed but other than that it seemed to be cosmetic. I guess that once we are in and about her side properly then something will come to light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm having tomorrow off though, my back went into meltdown whilst moving the pumps yesterday and it wasn't as though I was lifting much it was just an awkward movement that set it off.... The joys!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Thank you to everyone else who came down and offered support and advice. especially the chap who stood in awe and said "I honestly thought that I would never, ever see her afloat again.....amazing", that made my night.</span><br />
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</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Feel free to add any comments or send any questions that you might have!!</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692510694702392104.post-52122381180244081532011-03-27T15:51:00.000+01:002011-03-27T15:51:06.795+01:00Another day gone...<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its been an interesting semi-productive week in the world of the Lady. I managed to get the tensile steel bar through the hull and then through the main stringers for the legs, not an easy task when tools fail and the tide will just not do as its told! (More later!). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also the local paper the Oban Times did a nice article on the boat and my intentions. Of course my intentions changed almost as soon as the article was published, but I guess that's boats and the sea for you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Its perhaps worth noting how grateful I am for the Oban Times to be taking an interest and printing my side of the story as far as the 'Blight on Oban Bay' is concerned. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Obviously this blog pretty much tells the story of what is happening to the Lady Evelyn but I notice that not many people have seen/follow this site or have no real interest in whats going on other than the fact she looks like a derelict hull rotting alongside the North Pier. There have been some wonderful discussions on our local radio station as well as letters to the Editor of the Oban Times talking about what a state the harbour is in because of her, but I beg to differ. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I spend a hell of a lot of my time whilst working on the boat, explaining histories, taking advice or just listening to stories from the many people who take the time to stop and ask about the boat. I can honestly say that the Lady Evelyn is photographed at least the minimum of twice for every time I am down hail, rain or shine! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">So I see the article was the first real defense of the boat against all those letters and discussions that have been had that I have not been able to respond to and I am very grateful for that platform.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I also have had bit of interest from some volunteers who would like to come and work on her with me. An engineer, a ships (marine) painter and a carpenter all of whom would like to come and do some work. Again without the Oban Times I doubt if any of them would have come forward, so my whole hearted thanks for that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So what's been happening? I had acquired the 30 mm tensile steel bar some time ago. Its galvanised and is as heavy duty as I could buy. It will allegedly hold 100 tonnes plus but I don't intend either for myself or anyone else to be under the boat to prove that. The idea is that it holds the legs on tight to the hull and then when I want to work proper under the boat I will shore her up with sleeper's or several braces. That gives me the peace of mind that 70 or 80 tonnes of boat will not be worn as a 'hat' when I am caulking her starboard side. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The bar has been put through the top of a rib above the deck level and has 6 inch square 1/4 inch mild steel plate to spread out the weight on the nuts for securing (See photo's below). The second bar is through the main stringer below the deck, It is the strongest part of the vessel so I have no concerns that it will ever be a problem. Again the steel plate is supporting the bar inside and out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I had problems making the four 32mm holes. I bought a brand new carpenters brace last December from a local hardware shop (I'm not going to write derogatory things about the shop and its staff, you can make your own minds up.... If you want the name e-mail me and I'll let you know). I was also sold a 32 mm wooden drill bit which cost nearly £20. These were bought after a long discussion about the location, size and depth of the holes and how difficult it was going to be for me to actually get in and physically drill them out. the guy I spoke to promised that everything I had bought was ideal. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">However... As soon as I got everything together on the boat put the drill to the wood and took a turn with the brace, the head of the brace collapsed internally. The teeth holding the drill bit buckled and could not grip the drill.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Of course I had no other option but to head back to the store and complain. It turned out that I had bought the best brace they had to offer and they had no alternatives. But as a work around they suggested that I buy or acquire an electric drill (Cordless). So I bit the bullet, got on my knees to my fiance and asked her if it was ok for me to spend another daft amount of money on what I called a 'professional drill, like real joiners use'. Of course she just sighed and said 'whatever' which is code for 'dont you ever mention that bloody boat to me again and if you cant make the hole, find something that can.... have you paid the rent??'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">So I purchased a 14 volt professional Bosch drill thinking that this was the answer to all the problems of the holes. On my first use of the drill, smoke poured out and the batteries lasted 5 minutes. But I managed 6 inches of the first hole! It was then another trip back to the hardware store to ask them where I had gone wrong. This time I spoke to another salesman who actually knew what he was talking about. It turned out that the drill bought two days earlier was far to light for the job and should have been a minimum of 18 volts and that the drill bit I was using was far to heavy. He directed me to a very light cutting tool for £10.25 but could do nothing about the drill because I managed to damage its box (Tensile steel bar and plastic boxes do not like each other, especially when the steel bar lands on it from 12 feet). He did reckon that it should solve my problems, wouldn't take back the original drill though!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">To be fair, the new drill and bit did go through the wood like a hot knife through butter. It might have taken three days to get there but the holes were finally done on the boat. Unfortunately the holes in the temporary legs were not....battery went flat!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Anyway, its now done. The legs are not on but the holes are in and the bar is in place. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The main reason for not actually doing the legs was more to do with a pump problem and access. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I am also trying to source telegraph poles (or similar) for more permanent legs as the wood I purchased for the job to date is far too light for long term use.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I took the new three inch salvage pump and started to pump her out, the power in that pump is incredible but when it was running the plastic strainer smashed and I think I managed to get some rope or something into the pump housing as it dropped to about half pressure. Tomorrows jobs is to dismantle and have a look, I ran the tensile bar through the uptake pipe and as it went through I'm assuming its not that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Access is proving to be an issue as well. Whilst it seemed like a good idea to keep her just off the harbour wall, its a nightmare trying to work around the tides to get any time on her. Security is good though as nothing has been moved or removed since she was moved out that wee bit.... probably shouldn't have written that as Ive left a hammer on board until I can get down on Thursday, I dare say it will now be gone!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I think the access issue could be solved with a dinghy, so if you have or know of a dinghy that is available for purchase/donation to the project. Please get in touch. Doesn't matter if its rough, 'we have the technology, we can rebuild him..' as they say! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">OK, the plan is to get back down to her on Friday 1st April and finally get her upright either then or on Saturday. I realise that I am ten days to a week or so late but I have been trying!! Ive arranged for the tow to be done then as well, so with luck and fair weather we could be in our new home a week today... or I could be writing about WHY we are not in our new home by then!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">More pictures and an update whatever happens. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692510694702392104.post-3165215902004899242011-02-27T13:34:00.000+00:002011-02-27T13:34:47.433+00:00A belated update -<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its, yet again, been a while since my last update. Its easy to get sidetracked with family and other matters but those of you who have said that I have given up.... Sorry no! Just because I don't spend every waking minute standing watching over her doesn't mean I am not down every day making sure that ropes and fenders are all in place and that there is no movement.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Also to those cynics that have said nothing is happening, well I can only get access to her at a 1.2 of a tide, this means that there is only a few occasion's that I can actually do anything constructive on her hull below the waterline.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">However, the good news is that I have achieved a lot of caulking recently. I managed to get down for a part of the big tides last week and have more or less managed to re-seal the port side. She still has a lot to be done Port side wise but the worst of the rotten caulking was removed and replaced (How madly does rotten oakum smell??) all the seams re-caulked properly and then finally filled and painted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I have been criticised for not 'patching' her and moving her quickly, but I feel that there is no point in doing things twice, for one reason I cant afford it and for another the seams are way to long to effectively patch. Its far easier and (I feel) quicker to just get on and do the job properly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I have been using a method of caulking that I found in an old shipwrights book, where they use cotton coated with tar, instead of tar (Which I now have after taking a time to source) I have been using roofers bitumen. It seems a wee bit light for the job, but I have put plenty into the seams as well as hammering home the cotton. On top of this I have been using a linseed oil and red oxide putty mix (5% red oxide) to bring the seam up to level and then painting the whole thing with red oxide paint (See pictures). This seems to work OK, and the finish is looking good. I found an old table spoon on the beach and it is by far the best tool for forcing the putty in (Spoon end) and then by using the handle end running it along the seam to give a really nice finish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Its very satisfying to see the finished result, but I fear that my linseed oil putty mix is wrong and perhaps should only be used above the waterline as it takes such a long time to set.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I have recently been in touch with a company called Traditional Boat Supplies whom are going to supply me with Oakum and another product called 'Black Pudding', the beauty of black pudding I think is that it goes very hard on the surface but stays ply able in the seam allowing for the natural movement in the timbers. There was another boat in the other day doing a few wee jobs and they were using the pudding mix, apparently its mixed with concrete hence the 'black pudding' consistency when mixed properly. Its allegedly made to some ancient Scottish recipe, probably like our very own Stornoway version! I look forward to finding out if anyone else uses or has used something similar or their own make in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The positive thing about Traditional Boat Supplies is that they are very approachable and will explain their products if you drop them a line, they also have a lot of products and experience of wooden vessels to match. That and carriage to Argyll is not unrealistic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As you can see from the photo's things are moving on, I still have a couple of acquisitions to make, namely the legs and also the 3' uptake pipe for the pump before I finally get her shifted. It also appears that the boat I was planning to use is out the water for its winter refit but I dare say that I could get someone else to shift it. I reckon by the next set of spring tides she will be moved to her new home on the other side of the bay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The English dictionary's description of the word 'decomissioned' is the act of dismantling. But the word 'decomissioned' doesn't give away the reality of what that actually means in the fishing industry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">To me if you dismantle something you take it to bits, in fact the definition is to take it to pieces 'bit by bit'. But the act of decommissioning a fishing vessel is to destroy the thing! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We live in a 'green' society yet there is nothing 'green' about what happened to a fully working fishing vessel being destroyed. However I do admit there is a percentage that is recycled... I have first hand experience of trying to salvage parts or as I put it previously 'Picking over a corpse'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lets discuss what happens to the vessel when it enters the decommissioning scheme.. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">First the skipper has to find somewhere for the vessel to be broken up. These people/yard have to be prepared to take on the job of not only cutting her up but the removal of all hazardous materials as well as the safe disposal of other waste materials. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The vessel is then steamed to the yard in question where all the fishing gear, that has not been left in her home port, is removed. The removable items that don't belong to the boat (Electrics etc) have to be returned to where they were rented from and all the oils removed safely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The deck machinery, shelter deck and masts etc are lanced off, removed and then the wheelhouse is lifted off for cutting up at some later stage. The engine is removed as this has probably been sold on and that basically leaves the hull. This (in my case) is towed to the top of a slip at high water and then taken to bits using a JCB!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The only things recyclable in this process is the heavy ballast, pipe work and tanks. The wood from the deck of hull is of no value what-so-ever and the removal of copper nails or fastenings is minimal because the wood cannot be burned to get access to them. This whole process from start to finish happens in a matter of days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Take, for example, the Rebecca McLean picturedin the blog below. She was built in 1977. She probably took months to build and many thousand's of man hours to complete. She was somebodies pride and joy when she floated off the slip, probably she was launched to a party at the home port with a proud skipper showing her off before the hard work began of working to justify her build in the first place. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Again, because I did not know the boat, I will speculate that she employed at least four people on her for most of her career. Along with the many artisans that kept her afloat from running maintenance to the many other things that would have needed to have been done. From the lumpers who shifted her catch in port to the insurance company that kept her on the books and not forgetting everyone else that was involved in the bureaucracy of allowing her to catch fish. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I think you get the idea I am trying to put forward that the decommissioning of this vessel did not just effect the owner, but an entire range of people who relied on her whilst at sea or alongside. The list of people mentioned is by no means conclusive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The sad thing is that once the boat is destroyed then that is her gone forever. She cannot be rebuilt as there is nothing going to be left of her. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Her design might be on paper somewhere and the odd picture might exist of her in here heyday. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">She was not like a car where ten thousand versions of her existed and many sit in collections, she was one off. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Almost a piece if living art. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">There are damn few places left that can reproduce her, the people who could are either dying out or realistically cannot justify the cost of building a new version of her. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Her only real chance was to have been kept fishing or sold/given to a passionate collector who could have converted her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What options are there for a fully functional fishing vessel instead of being destroyed?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I have two in mind that could have saved her. One personal and thought out of self gratification and the other through looking at the bigger picture in the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Yes, I would have loved to have her. I would have converted her over time to be that classic live aboard I have always dreamed about. I would have used her to tour whilst converting her as money and time would have allowed. She was not like the Lady Evelyn that is needing so much work, she was a working vessel that deserved to be retired to someone like me to use and to encourage younger generations to love the sea and boats as much as I do. She would have been used from the second she was handed over and would have travelled around from day one until the day I in turn passed her to one of my children. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I would never have fished her again, I would have made that solemn promise that even if it looked like she was to change hands outwith my family I would have kept to the condition, no commercial fishing. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">But I guess your 'word' cannot be your bond in our government's eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The second option and a much more realistic one to my 'wishing for a pony' in the governments eyes... Why not give her to a third world country? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">How often do we hear of fishing fleets around the world being wiped out through Tsunami's or civil wars? or the myriad of other natural or man made disasters that happen on our planet on a yearly basis..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Could a charity not offer the skipper the cost of the fuel and a ticket home for him to deliver the vessel to literally anywhere in the world? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Have we not been taught that to give a man the tools to do a job is better than giving him a loaf of bread? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The option of giving a man a boat and a net would feed him and his community for years to come and its not like we would be giving the rubbish. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">These boats are state of the art, albeit some are slightly aged but there is nothing wrong with them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One of reasons, I have been led to believe, a to why vessels must be broken up was that in the very beginning of the decommissioning sheme system, many years ago. Vessels were sold to other countries and ultimately they ended up back here and fishing again under other names and other licences. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Basically people saw a way to 'scam' the system and they did. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sadly this problem has been overcome by the destruction of the vessel being seen as the simplest and easiest way to stop this happening. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Rather than spending time creating a way of working around this it has been easier to 'cut' a vessel up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I have a simple(ish) and easy way to get around this. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The MCA has a database of every engine on every commercial boat. They have the spec's for engine power and if an engine is to be added to that database now I am pretty sure it would have to be a brand new engine to get on it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Use this database along with the registry of vessels (Every vessel has a unique number) to tie in the boats to the fishing fleet and new additions. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Cross reference the numbers with any licence transactions and if there are discrepancies when someone tries to use a vessel removed form the registry then put on hold the licence application and criminally investigate the person trying to re-administer the said vessel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Surveyors already check RSS numbers and engine numbers The would see if numbers had been tampered with and lets face it if the fine was big enough... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The government could easily issue tamper proof documentation that lives and dies with every vessel (This already works for Microsoft, you try and transfer software from one PC to another!), as well as making marks on vessels perhaps bar coded.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The cost of doing something like this could be met both by the skipper removing the vessel from the licencing scheme as well as the person receiving the vessel. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I am sure there are way cleverer people out there how could come up with other ideas to keep these vessels from being destroyed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The saddest thing about the whole destruction of a vessel is that the fishing license for the vessel destroyed is not gone, merly shelved for five years. There is nothing to stop a brand new boat being built to take the license in five years. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Technically as far as I can see, the present owner can have a five year holiday at the governments expense then build or buy another boat and be in exactly the same situation as he was before the boat was decommissioned under this set of procedures!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Where the hell is the logic in this?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">This is doing very little for the fish stocks,as you would would have thought they would have got a five year rest.... well no not exactly. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The licence that has been shelved, is only shelved so as to stop the present entitlement holder using it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">There is nothing stopping him from renting it out, now, to a third party who is needing quota or would like to add more to his own. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">We are in a position of having fewer boats (for five years) with more quota.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I wonder if any of them will buy bigger boats meantime?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If you think what I have written is not factual or naive, please drop me a line and let me know, please no hater's! I only have put down in black and white what I and many other people think. I have not used any skippers opinions or thoughts here and any expressed are purely my own. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Thanks to the skipper of the Rebecca McLean for allowing me to take the pictures as well as letting me have a few bits and pieces. It can't be easy watching your boat be destroyed no matter what the recompense. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On another tack - I am on yet another scrounging mission. I would like to buy or borrow a wooden (Or fibreglass) dinghy between 12 and 18 feet. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would prefer something I could work on so as to keep purchase costs down. But the same can apply if your lending one, you will get it back better that you gave it to me! e-mail if you have something you might like to part with, Thanks in advance!!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692510694702392104.post-90022513079771843862011-01-23T12:36:00.000+00:002011-01-23T12:36:29.025+00:00Pictures as promised<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some pictures taken of whats left of the Azalea as well as the scalloper the Rebecca McLean about to be destroyed due to the decomissioning scheme. I'm pretty much disgusted with the fact that this actually went ahead... Read my rant for my thoughts....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pictures taken over the last week of the destruction of the Rebecca McLean a Scalloper being decomissioned in the latest round of the Goverment schemes. Rant to follow!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692510694702392104.post-24904937566409630842011-01-22T19:22:00.000+00:002011-01-22T19:22:03.270+00:00Its been a while....<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My apologies for not writing up for such a long time. I have been 'shirking' my responsibilities for a wee while due to having hurt my sodding back again.... Not going there with tales of 'daring do', Ive a F*^&%d back and that's all there is to it life revolves around that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Well as to whats been happening?? The Lady is still siting almost exactly where I left her two months or so ago. She has had a daily check on her with an occasional clamber aboard. She is still at a hellish angle and has got a nice layer of green slime over her making her pretty torturous to get over. She is looking much cleaner inside so the change in angle has cleaned a lot of the garbage out of her that had accumulated over the previous ten months or so. She is going up onto the long awaited legs on the next tides in a coupe of weeks. The engineers are making plates to help spread the weight of the boat on the joists and the delivery of the pine 6x12 legs are semi arranged for then as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I plan to use 4 six inch by 12 inch legs that are 15 feet long. The idea is to use 2 planks bolted together to make one leg. These will be held in place with two 30mm high tensile (Galvanised) steel bar lengths (A metre is hopefully enough). I'm going to drill the hull through both the heavy stringer that runs below the deck beams (Yes I know there is a name for this but I'll be damned if I can remember it..sorry Sandy!) and then directly through the rib above deck level. I'll do this at approximately midships to give maximum benefit to the forces of leverage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I should say something about the plates as well here.. These are basically made up of 10mm mild steel. They are 12 inches by 12 inches with a 32mm centre hole for the tensile steel and also two 10mm locator's holes for holding them in place while everything gets bolted together. Its worth noting that because I am doing 99% of this myself you have to think ahead as to how to make life easy for yourself, things like locator's holes mean the difference of things going out of alignment and you losing months off your life cursing and swearing! I'm a believer in doing things once and doing it right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">On the deck and engine side of things. Bob from Ardishaig (an Engineer Mentioned I have before) is still after a hydraulic pump from the front of the engine. In exchange for this Bob is going to lance off some of the derelict and corroded steel work as well as possibly remove the engine if I can open the deck up and prepare the area in time. He has got himself a lorry with hi-ab that will do the lifting and also take the excess material to the dump.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have to say a huge thank you here to the skipper of the Rebbecca McLean, who's boat has recently been decommissioned. He kindly let me go over the boat after she was broken up to get a few parts. It cant be easy to have people like me looking for a bargain whilst you look upon your life's wok being destroyed because of bureaucracy. I'm going to rant about the whole decommissioning thing separately as its a crime as far as I am concerned and it certainly is not the fisherman's fault! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Anyway, I managed to get one of her fuel tanks and some other various bits and peaces including, 9 jubilee clips, a tin of black paint, 3 lengths of chain, 5 heavy ropes (Braided as well as ordinary) 3 stainless steel knives (OK they were cheap looking things, I took three that were relatively clean but left at least 20!), a 15 foot stainless steel hold ladder and a couple of wee fittings that were loose. Oh! and a fishery officer deterrent stick (Story in a second!).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I honestly felt like I was picking over a corpse, if that's how one feels like of course, it wasn't nice but I felt that I was in a position that I would never be in again. Its not everyday that a boat is decommissioned on your doorstep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I had hoped that I might have been able to get the helm, as you may know the Lady's was stolen. But the wheelhouse had already been destroyed so I missed it. I do hope to get the steering hydraulics though, however I have been advised that it will not fit a standard helm control.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As to the 'Fishery Officer Deterrent stick', as you may or may not know. i was a fishery officer in the home port of the Rebeca McLean. I used to have collect log sheets as a matter of course from some vessels as they used to play the game of 'forgeting'..... Anyhow... I traipsed aboard the R M asking for said log sheets and here in the wheel house was a hardwood full size sledge hammer handle. I joked about it being for unruly crew..he joked back about deterring fishery officers looking for log sheets! Touche' methinks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Any way that hardwood handle is now pride of place at my front door for any unruly sales.... sorry its in the workshop as a talking point for the future!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well back the the lady, Its caulking tomorrow (Again). The tides are pretty good just now and the weather is mild so I'm going to make the most of the opportunity and attempt to get some of the work done that was lost during the bad weather. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A rant and some pictures coming soon!!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692510694702392104.post-7957121188655338352010-11-14T18:11:00.000+00:002010-11-14T18:11:14.847+00:00The Lady Evelyn or the Bountiful SO 424 her story, her history<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been led to believe that there has been some discussion locally about the boat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course I can understand why, as for the main and most obvious reason is the fact that she is town centre (ish!) and is probably one of the most photographed vessels in the world... even today its cloudy, cold and yet there are people taking pictures for their own use for whatever reasons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So I suppose I could give a little detail about her and a wee bit of her history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">First of all, she was built in Dingle, launched in August of 1972 and called the Bountiful (SO424). She is 59 feet long and her beam is 19.5 feet, made of Oak and has Oroco planking with Larch decking. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">She had a GRT (Gross registered tonnage) of 48, we think that she may be nearer 80 actual.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">We think that she was renamed the Lady Evelyn in 1994 and had a larger engine (330 Pi-od or Pyeod) put into her by Tyrells of Arcklow in 1985.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">From the research it seems that her wheelhouse was changed in killybegs around 1999 and she went from three windows forward to five. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">She seemed to have a gear change around then for fishing for Herring (and probably any other pelagic species as well). Before that she was Gill Netting and (I believe) Seine netting as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Thats a bit of the history so far, when we get the website up and going I will build a proper timeline along with photo's and explain in more detail the information I have so far.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Thanks to John Baird for most of that. John is a marine artist and his site is -</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.bairdart.net/"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.bairdart.net/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John used to steam the West Coast both Fishing and on Coaster's and knows a huge amount about the Fishing fleets, Irish and Scottish, both past and present. John has also supplied a cracking picture which he has kindly allowed me to reproduce (and I will do later on in the blog).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Right, so thats a wee bit of her history now as to her future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Originally we had planned to take her out the water at the local boatyard. Unfortunatly they are unable to take out anything over 50 or so tonnes. They have tried with the Lady Evelyn before I had anything to do with her but, I had a cunning plan to allow the Lady to dry out for a couple of weeks and trying to do it again as her GRT is 48 and technically they should be able to do it. However, I miss interpreted what the yard had said about where she could lie in order to dry out before the lift and in reality there is nowhere for her to go for that to happen (Her drying out that is).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So the next idea is to put her on legs and keep her somewhere safe on a beach, until the next plan can be put into action. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The main problem, as with any project, is money. If we had some, then for a mere £25K she would be away and repaired professionally in a yard and returned in a few months with everything sealed up (But no engine or steering, budget another £15K or so for that!), but since we dont , we have to do her as a long term project ourselves until funds are available or I win the lottery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This is where we, as well as those watching with interest, have to be patient. Things will happen as we can afford them. Also we have to rely on goodwill from people with boats and the like in order to move her, we need to ba able to fit around them rather than them around us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Oh! to have money!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The aim of the whole project is to preserve the vessel for the future, she was built by hand and lets face it, few of these are ever likely to be built again. Certainly she could be used as a wreck for divers (as I know that very nearly happened), but it would be criminal to let that happen without a fight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ok, I will leave it at that for today. I'm suffering a bit with the old 'sore back' and buggering around on the laptop is killing me..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If you have any questions, please by all means e-mail, comment or get in touch and I'll explain what's going on. I know that there has been some real rubbish talked about this boat and whats happening if nothing else we get a laugh about it!!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692510694702392104.post-17181796921330181232010-11-13T17:24:00.000+00:002010-11-13T17:24:24.586+00:00<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been a while since I have been able to do anything on this 'blog' basically because I chose to update my system to Google 'Chrome' as well as upgrading to Internet explorer 9 (Beta). So in my efforts to keep up with technology the whole system F*&^%£$ up!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Now I have de-installed all the upgrades everything is back to normal and I can update pictures as well as everything else (Including getting my iPod back up and running! which is the most important thing)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So whats been happening with the Lady? Well as you can see from the picture she is turned around. Love my fingers in the sodding picture!?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is her at the end of the day, pumps off and being left for the night. Unfortunetly there was a couple of issues when the tide went down and it was far from the end of my night with her!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">She sits well for a boat that has been that has been on her side for the best part of a year, the list to starboard is basically because she has several tonnes of water 'logged' planking on that side .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was taken the day before, and I missed the tide by ten minutes. She won't lift unless she is completely dry as the tide comes in and the pumps cope fine with this. However, there is a point that if the pump stops for ten minutes she floods beyond its ability of the pump to cope. Which has happened on at least four occasions due to blockages or (Lets face it) bad luck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And finally here she is floating fine! It took quite a bit of effort but this was the result of a days work and you have seen a bit of the process above, thanks to David (My brother) and his mate Aiden who put their backs into the job....literally!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So at this precise moment she is back lying on her side, well away from the harbour wall. She has just survived a North Westerly force 9 (Thank you Posiedon!) but we are due another blow on Tuesday so I am a wee bit panickly at the moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There is an awful lot yet to be 'B'Logged' about, but I'm just out of hospital after a wee procedure on my back and its getting painful sitting here typing. So I'll update again tomorrow, hope fully, with a bit more about everyone and everything that is going on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kered </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692510694702392104.post-63010247618099508582010-10-28T19:10:00.000+01:002010-10-28T19:10:00.343+01:00Legs... two or four??After some thought (Yes I am capable!) I took a turn into Corpach Boatyard in Lochaber and met a very knowledgeable shipwright, called Sandy, and we had a long discussion about what to do with the Lady 'in her present condition'.<br />
As you know she is presently on her starboard side with the tide flowing through her on a daily basis, I personally don't think thats to big an issue as she is not moving and lets face it the corrosion doesnt matter at the present state of the repair schedule. <br />
However, the weather is getting a bit poorly now and all it would take is a half decent blow from the West and then I would be dealing with more than parted seams!<br />
The main disussion with Sandy was on what to do with the Lady if she could not come out the water on Kerrera because of her weight.<br />
Obviously, the Corpach yard can take her and do a full repair and I am going to have them give me a full quote to make her watertight and sea worthy again, the earliest that it could all come together is January as they have obligations to other boats meantime. <br />
But meantime there is the issue of moving her and getting her somewhere that doesnt cost £110 a week to be tied up against a car park!<br />
The answer is legs methinks and then tuck her into a corner somewhere until the yard can work their magic.. <br />
One thought is to drill a rib and a plank and attach a birch log leg slighty aft of amidships. This would stablilise her to a point and then I could maybe put another leg slightly forward. It would add extra strength in the long run. <br />
I am going to have to take advice before I start drilling right enough, I also have to persuade the previous owner of the Lady to supply me with the wood for the project.<br />
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Sorry I cant get any pictures up at the moment something is wrong with the software. I'll look into it in the near future.<br />
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I have a whole lot more to talk about, but I think its more appropriate to put it on the website which is still being constructed....dont hold your breath!<br />
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I'll probably leave the blog until next week, when Sandy the Shipwright gives her a going over for the quote from the yard. Unless something happens of course.<br />
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Sorry about the spelling as well, spell checker is duff as well on this software!!<br />
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Kered Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692510694702392104.post-64027782349435723522010-10-25T15:59:00.000+01:002010-10-25T15:59:59.722+01:00Previous blogSorry for some reason I cannot upload my pictures to the blog or get the spell check to work. So I aplogise for the inconvenience!<br />
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KeredUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692510694702392104.post-35478575689793153512010-10-25T15:57:00.001+01:002010-10-25T15:58:16.839+01:00Day 7<p$1>Do you ever get the feeling you have bitten off more than you can chew?? Well its getting that way with the Lady Evelyn!<br />
<p$1><p$1>Where to start?? The begining is always good I suppose...<br />
<p$1>Ok, after my 'help' went AWOL due to the cry of wild women and drink! <br />
<p$1>I had to sort out the pumps and the logistics myself. I hear you say "So what?" well you try lifting, lowering and manhandling a petrol pump down a twenty foot harbour wall and across a deck that is a slippy as ice and tell me that its easy...well if it is, it all had to go back up again when the lady refused to lift on those tides I didnt blog about.<br />
<p$1><p$1>I managed to source three pumps and heres a wee thank you to those involved, first thanks to Paddy Lafferty for the honda 5hp garbage pump, then to Burden's for finally getting a decent wee diaphram pump and also to Neil Munro from Munro's garage in Oban for the very cute 1 inch honda that looks like a toy (Works absolutly fine though!!). <br />
<p$1>I want to mention the fourth pump that came from MacGloghlans that didnt work and nearly killed me in the discovery that it didnt work!! It was a heavy bloody thing that was as awkward as you get, a huge amount of effort for nothing in getting it on board then trying to prime the thing...but a thank you for letting me borrow it none the less.<br />
<p$1><p$1>The pumps were all 2 inch apart from the one that didnt work which was a four inch. It turned out the diaphram and the 5hp were adaquate to get her afloat. It appears that there is a point where if the boat is dry enough and if the pumps are on, then she will lift. <br />
<p$1>If the pumps are not running, as happened the night before, the water overtakes and its not worth carrying on. <br />
<p$1>I think a lesson to be learned here is that if the water looks like its going to win...then its going to win!<br />
<p$1><p$1>So after the lessons learned from day 7, the Lady lifted on day 8. It took the two pumps mentioned and having them running the whole time. She really did not take that much water after she levelled out as most of the seams that were coasing a problem held fine (I had caulked them at low water)and the worst ones were above the water line anyway. <br />
<p$1>If she has sprung a plank then its not overly causing a massive influx of water. Not enough to worry about towing her as is anyway.<br />
<p$1><p$1>The tow job... Well she is going to a yard to be hauled out and then work can begin on her proper. At least that was the idea.<br />
<p$1>What the reality is, is that she may well be far to heavy for the yard's cradle to lift her out. The yard has apparantly tried this before an the cradle 'groaned' under the strain. So much so that the pilot of the cradle gave up. <br />
<p$1>The yard have said they will try again, but she goes back into the water if the cradle fails again.<br />
<p$1>Therein lies yet another problem, if this yard cannot take her out......what the hell do I do?<br />
<p$1>The charges where she is sitting at the moment are £110 (Approx) per week and the deal is that I get her moved ASAP. <br />
<p$1>I have postponed the move three times due to pump problems, human interference (Sorry, lack off it) and timing of the tides and to be honest the weather the other day was atroshious.<br />
<p$1>If she cannot get intot he yard then one thought is to put her on legs and find a beach somewhere, but to be honest that would be the kiss of death for the vessel as access might very well be a huge issue. <br />
<p$1>She already lists very badly to starboard after having been lying on that side for over a year and very badly needs to dry out . (The initial idea was to let her dry out for some time on the slip at the boatyard then lift her, that cannot happen now as the yard have put pontoons up inside the pier for locals to use for their boats.)<br />
<p$1><p$1>Since the timimg of the tides are wrong this week, the fact that I have managed to lift her and turn her round are a bit acedemic and I have had to return all the pumps. <br />
<p$1>The tow couldnt take place as there was nobody in the yard at the weekend to attemp to lift her. So the next attempt is going to be on the 5th or 6th of November. <br />
<p$1><p$1>I still do not know hat do do if the hoist/cradle cannot lift her. Is that going to be the nail in the coffin for this project? The only yards that are capable of taking her are based on Corpach near Fort William, Mallaig or South to Crinan. But since I would not get change out of say, twenty thousand...well thats me stuffed.<br />
<p$1><p$1>Like I said at the begining of this blog "Have I bitten off more than I can chew?"<br />
<p$1><p$1><p$1>I am begining to think this project is cursed.....<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Basically I went down at 6 this morning and sorted the pump out. The pipe had blocked at the joint we had put in, with seaweed. It took half an hour to get it clear which proved that we would not have been able to have done it last night, especially in the dark!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Where the boat is sitting at the moment is one of those places in the harbour that get effected by the tide very easily, by that I mean that the difference between 0.1 and 0.2 on the tide table is equivalent of 4 feet in this harbour. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Because of this, I could not get down near the hull as there was 3 feet at he stern and about a foot at the bow of water. Wellies, sadly are not big enough!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When the boat lifted the other day, she moved about 6 feet in towards the quayside and she is now leaning slightly on the quay. I think this has caused the planking, where she is touching the quay, to split allowing more water to leak in causing the pump not to be able to cope.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I am at a wee bit of a loss as to how to procede. The pump really has to go back to its owner and I think we actually need a larger diameter pump to be able to cope with what has happened. Gawd knows where I am going to get a pump to be able to deal with this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Maybe the plus point is that we have a week until the tide starts to make again and that gives me some time to source another pump.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Well, watch this space! A big change to this blog will be taking place over the next couple of days. Rebuildalittleship.blogspot will become rebuildalittleship.co.uk. Now that we own the site we can build on that, allowing us to provide links to advertisers, other blogs as well as to let us sell some bits and pieces that are surplus to requirement....oh yeah also have a begging page as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">More soon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aye</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Kered</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692510694702392104.post-49986601944888916842010-10-12T20:39:00.000+01:002010-10-12T20:39:25.230+01:00Day 5 - Three steps back<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just a quick note tonight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We managed to pump her dry again fairly quickly and when the tide went out also managed to caulk a few of the bigger holes in the planking on the port side. I am impressed that there is no rot or soft wood anywhere which makes for less work in the planking repair department!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Note - There is going to have to be a complete strip down and re-caulk of the entire vessel, deck as well. Big job, but its going to have to be done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sadly the pump started playing funny buggers towards the end of the day and because it was getting dark and the water ingress had to be kept on top of, we decided to call it quits and give it another go in the morning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The pics show how she settle last night and also a wee bit of the cauling undertaken today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Wish us luck tomorrow, I hope that the luck the previous owner of the vessel had is not carried on to us after todays carry on!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aye</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">She came up on the tide after we spent time today caulking the major leak's on the deck and the hull.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">There was quite a bit of work involved in getting her up, it turns out that the pump we are using has garbage 'cruncher' impeller built in, so this meant we could remove the filter and let the pump suck up the sea weed. This helped a lot and after we extended the intake pipe we could mount the pump away from the gunwale. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">It makes life easier when we have to return the pump and are back to working by hand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My brother was on the job most of the day, but tomorrows big job is to reach him how to tie knots!!.... over hand knots holding a 60 foot trawler alongside?? no I think not..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">An inspection of the interior made for an interesting time. The ribs in the boat are very large, especially around the engine beds, everything is painted white and hopefully they will come up when we can finally get in a clean her.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The engine is showing signs of being under water with a lot corrosion, not as bad as it could have been right enough but needs a good look at. I think its going to be a huge job for it be removed, but hey ho its going to have to happen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Pyeod (Pi-od, pie-od, py-ode..etc I cant find the correct spelling on line or in fact any details about the engine. Once I get in and around proper I will get the information form the engines manufacture plate</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I would be interested for any comments about a replacement engine. Obviously we don't need to have 330 Turbo (which is what the size is at present) so it would be nice to get a smaller more economical engine that would take the py-ods place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Well, more caulking tomorrow. The tools I won on eBay have arrived, too late for today's effort but a large coal chisel did the job (and a damn fine one!!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The pictures are of the interior and some of the vessel upright.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">More tomorrow</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aye</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">She is a huge boat and although she has no rot, the corrosion is pretty bad on all the metal areas exposed to the outside. I spent a good part of the day checking the metalwork and then the woodwork.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">On the wood side of things most of the vessel is solid except where the stantions meet the deck on the gunwales. I am sure this is down to the fact she has been on a mooring for a long time and has possibly had fresh water lying on her decks, if anyone has any other ideas let me know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The metal work is in a hell of a state but on a positive side nothing is rusted through, it seems to be solid once the surface is detritus is removed. I think that if I remove the surface rust at the moment then I would have problems as its going to take some amount of time and paint! to get right so it will safer as is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We still did not manage to get her upright and it took two hours to pump her dry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">After hoping that the pump would cope with the ingress when the tide came back in, it was a fools errand. The gunwale and the deck amidships were badly split and needing caulked, although I am sure its not the worst place I am positive it is one of them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">So guess who's going to be patching and caulking tomorrow (On the assumption that the tools and caulking twine ordered last week arrive).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Thankfully my chief bilge rat was back today, full of excuses about being 'tired' and 'sleeping' through a Saturday but at least he appeared!! The rest of the crew were down and being as helpful as small boys can be on a big climbing frame, so plenty of biscuits and juice were on hand to keep up spirits and that along with the beautiful blue skies and the thought that one day we would be afloat on her.... well lets say it was a better day than yesterday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Today was really the first time I have been inside the main hull and had access to the accomodation and engine room. The interior is caked in oil and has plenty of sea-weed rotting in the bilges (The pump choked a couple of times and it was F'n awful to clean!) so it made for a slippy dangerous rummage around. I think that steam cleaning is going to be the only way to clean her up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">She has lovely white painted wood forward and the accomodation was all unpainted bare paneled dark wood. I hope that it all cleans up well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The battery went flat on the camera so I only managed to get a couple of pics before the thing went dead. We will be back on tomorrow so I will get more detailed photo's then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sadly thats it today, hopefully some more positive news tomorrow (and better pic's!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aye</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We managed to lift the pump onboard, if you have read previous entries you know its about 20 feet or so down to the gunwale from the quayside, after a walk along the esplanade and across a very slippery and seaweedy beach. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">My 13 year old son was leading the way but ill be buggered if I know where he was going as we ended up crossing the most difficult part of the beach! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Never trust a 13 year old who is more interested in games machines than his fathers 'boring boat'....Gawd only knows where his mind was.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Anyway after much consternation, my back exploding and a few choice 'french' words, the pump got onboard just as the tide reached halfway up the keel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because we took so long getting the pump and then the back breaking effort of a cripple and three hero's, we missed the chance to pump her out before the tide came in and that was the fatal lapse in the days plan. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We needed the boat pumped out before the sea came up as the pump would not be able to cope with the ingress and the water already there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">It turned out that it was a good exercise in what the pump could do and what was going to happen before she finally lifts, we could do with this all happening three days ago of course!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The reason for the lack of help today was due to a brother of mine deciding that women and drink were a far better option than helping get the Lady afloat. Good to know that he is up for the challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The boys were stars and did a fair bit of the grafting... and then the incessant talking!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The pictures give a picture of what went on.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCIm0Goaafe91aO4pJysMA_SMKtO_9zEPqbjsHzcAFZB0tfZ_nPISbq1ZqtyieyHsObeYW-3szLYuI0liLN_6s1Fp2wF1CfvgGK_6nRI1Ps3etXhgQwr-AdNxZjKYBCGer_wCMrsSjpjAt/s1600/Ethan+in+charge.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCIm0Goaafe91aO4pJysMA_SMKtO_9zEPqbjsHzcAFZB0tfZ_nPISbq1ZqtyieyHsObeYW-3szLYuI0liLN_6s1Fp2wF1CfvgGK_6nRI1Ps3etXhgQwr-AdNxZjKYBCGer_wCMrsSjpjAt/s320/Ethan+in+charge.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial;">On a quick final note, crew member number two managed to work out that the deck was like ice after managing to slip the whole 19 feet of the deck to the deepest part of the gunwale... The water was up to his waste... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Oh well it made for a laugh at the time!! There is a drying out pic as well!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The boat is in a good position for meeting people and many folk are interested in whats going on, its probably the best photographed vessel on the West Coast for the time being sadly for all the wrong reasons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One person I chatted to was Bob from Ardrishaig, it turns out that he is a welder and works on boats. That's the kind of person you want to meet especially when your boat is partly made of the stuff and corroded to hell!! Bob also gave a contact for various woods in Balloch near Dumbarton.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Well its back down to the old Lady in the morning for another attempt at pumping her dry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Maybe be on better form tomorrow along with better news.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aye</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Kered</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692510694702392104.post-33244510754962660342010-10-08T21:48:00.001+01:002010-10-08T21:48:57.158+01:00DAY 1 - We will never talk of this day again!!<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Today was supposed to be about getting her afloat, upright and tied up tight alongside so that we could start getting all the leaks patched for her short move to the boatyard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">What today turned into was a fiasco of comedic proportions that Fawlty Towers would have been proud of!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">First of all, how difficult is it to locate a marine petrol or diesel water pump?? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I can tell you its a nightmare. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I had made the assumption that when you go to a plant hire, you could get one off the shelf or at least come away with the idea that you are going to get one in the near future. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">How wrong was I?? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Very methinks, it turns out that you can walk in fine and ask for one,but dont expect them to actually have one or tell you when one will be in from hire! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">How the hell do these places keep track of their stock?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Anyway, that was more or less done,dusted and that option exhausted at 0900 this morning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The next move was to go around to another plant hire operator, who it turned out was on holiday but had a guy running the place while he was away. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Well the guy running the place was AWOL!! and the shop next door was taking messages for him and surprise surprise I am still awaiting a call back. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">It was now about 1030 so I decided a coffee and sandwich were in order and a rethink of where we could get the pump was needed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">We decided that another marine engineer out of town was worth a try so we headed up to his workshop about three miles down the road. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The manager was very nice and showed us three pumps that were ok, but really only one of them was fit for our purpose. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Sadly we could not hire the equipment then and there as it belonged to the actual owner of the company and we told that we needed to get his authorisation for the deal. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">So off we traipsed back into town and up to the office of the business owner to plead our case. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">When we arrived he was nowhere to be seen so I felt that now was a good time to go shopping for my sons twelveth birthday present the time now was 1130.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I made it back to the office by 1200 and met up with the owner who was on good form and immediatly authorised the use of the pump from the workshop. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">So back out of town and into the workshop for the pump unit, now heres where even more fun started. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The engineer on the premises gave us an all 'singing and dancing' diesel pump, he fired it up and told us it had been serviced recently and it was very powerful. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">However it had bits missing and we could buy them from the local tool hire place..... Guess where we went after loading the pump up?? yep..back to the first plant hire people and a mere £15 later we had the connector and a length of pipe (Free!! the desk guy was symapthetic to our cause by now..). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Ok now to the boat as it was now an hour after low water (1330) and we were keen to get her (Lady Evelyn) dry ASAP and keep as much water at bay until she floated. On the pier side we realised that the deck was 15 feet below us, ok this is where my old Seamanship Teacher would have been proud of me! so a couple of bowlines and brute strength along with a pivoting system to stop the pump being wrecked against the was all in place and away the pump went down the quayside. If you have never shifted a diesel pump its quite a beast to manhandle. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">However with some swearing, it made it and all the relevant piping was attached.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The pump started fine, but for the love of anyone it would not suck up any water. We primed, re-primed, changed hose connectors, filled pipes with water and eventually gave up! cursing the thing, now what the hell was wrong with it??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">To be fair we were pretty knackered and p*^%&$ off by now. We thought it was something stupid, but I have used these things in various situations and in fact used to spend hours training with them while working with the Coast Recue Team in my Auxilliary Coastguard days so I was pretty much sure it was not us that was at fault....but then it had been serviced before we collected it...Allegedly...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">It was then that I had to get the car to my 'very tolerant' partner so I decided to leave my second in command (My Brother)to deal with the bloody pump and nipped off for half an hour. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">By the time I returned the housing was apart and the impellor, or rather what was left of the impellor was in a bucket. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">It turned out that once the housing was opened it was easy to see that although the pump may have been serviced, it had been used. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">How did we know this?? that would have been down to the big bloody 'stones' that had destroyed the interior of the housing and impellor that were included in the mish mash of materials that was now sitting in a bucket. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">So it was a case of phoning the office/engineers shop and tell them the good news. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Now I expected this to be a hassle, but to be fair the owner of the business told us to go anywhere and get an impellor and he would pay for it but of course, you will have guessed by now, there was no way we were going to find one in this small town!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">We had to try though so off we went for a wander, leaving said pump high and dry.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Or so we thought....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I swore I heard my brother say "I left the pump well out the way of the water, it will be ok for a while yet..." or words to those effect. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">When we finally got back to the boat at around 1700 the F&^%$* thing was just about covered. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Yet despite previous conversation here was the pump sitting right where it had been set up earlier with water just about to enter all the various inlets and outlets engines tend to have.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">An immediate panicked extraction was undertaken and the thing was hauled unceremoniously up the side of the quay and words were had.... I'm apparantly deaf and useless even though I had left him for an hour on the boat on his own!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Never mind. It was the enevitable end to a very long and non productive yet physical day. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The boat didnt move an inch and we have major pump issues that we are unsure of how to resolve as nobody seems to be able to hire us a pump.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Oh well as the discussion after the pump was hauled up the quay side went..."Lets never mention this day again"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">More soon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Aye</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Kered</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">P.S the pump?? Well its running fine albeit with no pump housing on it.</span><br />
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</tbody></table>The bucket with the bits floating off!! <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">K.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692510694702392104.post-90131474994562499792010-10-07T20:48:00.000+01:002010-10-07T20:48:35.378+01:00The Lady<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Lady Evelyn is 59 feet with a breadth of 19 feet, built of Oak and was build in 1972. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She is of Southern Irish fame and was lastly used for P<span style="background-color: yellow;">elagic</span> fishing (Pelagic means Mackerel,sprats or Herring). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I believe the method used was ring netting judging by the marks on her decks and where various fittings sit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">She was fitted with a 330hp Pyeod (Spelling is wrong) and since this has been flooded it will be replace with a lighter 180hp model (to be decided). As with most Irish vessels of her year and type, her engine is located in the forward section of the vessel. This has advantages and disadvantages which we can discuss at a later date.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The present condition of the vessel is pretty poor, although a complete hull. She has been on her side for almost a year and because of this she is showing wear and tear to most of her seams on the starboard side. Whilst the water has been allowed to run in and out of her for that time, this actually has done little damage other than have everything covered in a light covering of oil.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">All deck gear is very badly corroded with the mast stays being the worst. Even the anchor on deck has been hellishly damaged with corrosion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">She has had a fair bit of her equipment removed or destroyed. The helm and throttle controls have gone, the interior has been dismantled and allowed to fall into the water that could get into the various sections and finally everything is covered in a sheene of oil (as mentioned). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The pictures don't do much justice to the actual condition but give a good idea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So thats the boat! I will update the history as I find it out and I will add in details of everything that happens from now on as tomorrow it all starts!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Yours Aye</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Kered</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is my intention, along with my brother, to recover her and get her sea worthy again. Its going to be a fun ride and probably the end of my brother and I as family!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But 'hey ho' its too big an opportunity to let slip by and if you have a dream well....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Incidentally we have no money but plenty of enthusiasm and a wee bit of time so 'watch this space' as they say, I'm going to try and post as much technical information and a bit about how we get through the problems of the project. If nothing else this should make for a good read and put a smile on your face when you realise that your life will never be as complicated or difficult as ours is about to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If you have advice, experience you would like to share with us or even any old boats bits looking for a home (Including tools, paint, varnish, filler and anything for the boat....If you dont ask...etc) then please leave comments or get in touch, I am happy to hear from anyone and I will reply as quickly as I can.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Yours Aye</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Kered</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0