RainDance winter work photo’s

[snow(Alan H)]

I finished the ‘summer’ of ’09 vowing that it was time to make RainDance more comfortable for the skipper (me) while underway. You will see from the pix below that the helm hatch is all out of sync with the wheel & helm seat. I received some great feedback from WBF team, most / best from Lew Barrett.
Sat down with my boat builder (Geoff Bagnall) who just happens to be the same petit size as me (yeah right!) so the briefing went something like this “if it was your boat, what would you do?” . The end result is some of what I wanted & lots of what Geoff knew would work, end result is a boat that I’m VERY happy with.
While in the shed we fitted one of those very traditional, classic things that every classic boat had in 1928 – an auto winch. But the fit is superb & almost looks like it was there 80 years ago. Took advantage of the shed to glass the cabin top & repaint.
Removed a few bits that did not look right & added a few that did. Splashed a lot of paint around & polished some bling.
Fitting birthday present for an old lady in her 80’s.
(excuse the pix – iphone this time, not the normal camera)

OLD HATCH POSITION
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LET THE WORK BEGIN
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Cont.

[snow(Alan H)]

Cont
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THE SEAT
http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp165/Alanh22/P1130186.jpg,
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THE WINCH
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Cont

[snow(Alan H)]

Cont.

SOME NEW BLING

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MY NEW BEST FRIEND

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BACK ON THE MARINA

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[snow(Alan H)]

Cont.

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Bring on summer !!:)

[dhic001]

What, no foredeck work? You trying to copy the gin palaces or something? Hmm, if you don't need to work on the foredeck, you don't need those nasty rails on the foredeck. Would you like me to lend you a screwdriver to remove them?
Daniel

[snow(Alan H)]

What, no foredeck work? You trying to copy the gin palaces or something? Hmm, if you don't need to work on the foredeck, you don't need those nasty rails on the foredeck. Would you like me to lend you a screwdriver to remove them?
Daniel

Relax - its on the agenda for the future. :rolleyes:

[dhic001]

Oh good :D Still not sure about the lack of foredeck work though, next you'll be wanting one of those new internal combustion things... oh hang on, wrong boat, you already have one :p
Daniel

[C. Ross]

Very nice!

Did you have to upgrade battery/electrics to handle that winch?

[snow(Alan H)]

Very nice!

Did you have to upgrade battery/electrics to handle that winch?

No - there was already an electric winch installed so just new installation & switches + new chain & modes to the deck layout - saying that the sparkys bill was very steep. In my eyes boat builders are craftsman & electricians just assemble things, but the charge out rates do not reflect that.

[oakman]

Perhaps then you should try "just assembling" your electrics yourself?

Oakman

[Jase]

oh i like the new bling, where does one get a set of those?? Looking great Alan :D

[Jase]

only a launchy would paint all that lovely teak tho!! :P and i'm with Dan, the rails gotta go. :D

[snow(Alan H)]

oh i like the new bling, where does one get a set of those?? Looking great Alan :D

They were hiding on her all this time, covered in old chrome & bits of paint - $46 later at Eden Electroplaters & wow.

http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp165/Alanh22/IMG_0601.jpg,
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[snow(Alan H)]

Perhaps then you should try "just assembling" your electrics yourself?

Oakman

Is that the smell of old fuse wire smoldering away that I can smell ?:rolleyes:

[snow(Alan H)]

only a launchy would paint all that lovely teak tho!! :P and i'm with Dan, the rails gotta go. :D

Its mahogany , the boat builder will not use teak & to quote him a hatch is not a feature that yo would highlight - the rails are features.
One day grasshopper the rails will go.

[Jase]

don't let Harold see all that shiney stuff, you don't need that lecture :P

[snow(Alan H)]

don't let Harold see all that shiney stuff, you don't need that lecture :P
I'll be ok - as you know he does not hang out here.;)

[snow(Alan H)]

Interior (new hatch & seat) all painted & finished.
http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp165/Alanh22/_1060495.jpg,
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[P.L.Lenihan]

Very nice work and smart improvements! So,when does this winter you speak of finally finish and the warm winds of Spring melt all that snow?:)

Cheers!

Peter

[dhic001]

So,when does this winter you speak of finally finish and the warm winds of Spring melt all that snow?:)

Cheers!

Peter

Hopefully soon! I'm sick of the rain, seems to want to rain everyday right now. Damn wet stuff, why can't it just stay in the sea where it belongs?
Daniel

[John B]

Very nice work and smart improvements! So,when does this winter you speak of finally finish and the warm winds of Spring melt all that snow?:)

Cheers!

Peter


Frost you mean.,Its violent stuff. We get it on our windscreens! Sometimes we have to delay going to work because the frost is so dangerous.
One day! One day I had to stand in the kitchen absolutely cast with confusion for 15 minutes because the kettle was gone.It turned out that my lovely wife had used it to tip warm water on the frost on her car so she could go to work. I had to stay back that day owing to no coffee.

[P.L.Lenihan]

Frost you mean.,Its violent stuff. We get it on our windscreens!

Dear me! Do you sketch boats on it with your finger nails before the sun rises like I used to do? Of couse, you do know you must never forget to change your summer windscreens for winter ones or else all sorts of mayhem may ensue .Just not safe it isn't:)


Cheers!


Peter, where frost is best on beer steins and should be found year round....hopefully!

[John B]

Dear me! Do you sketch boats on it with your finger nails before the sun rises like I used to do? Of couse, you do know you must never forget to change your summer windscreens for winter ones or else all sorts of mayhem may ensue .Just not safe it isn't:)


Cheers!


Peter, where frost is best on beer steins and should be found year round....hopefully!

Sketch on it? Sketch you say..... clawmarks more like, as we desperately try to scrabble a porthole of visibilty before freezing blue outside the car. I don't think you realise how cold it gets here....Once I saw a puddle of water with a skin of ice over it. Admittedly that was further south but it was traumatic I can tell you.

[P.L.Lenihan]

clawmarks more like, as we desperately try to scrabble a porthole of visibilty before freezing blue outside the car. I don't think you realise how cold it gets here....Once I saw a puddle of water with a skin of ice over it. Admittedly that was further south but it was traumatic I can tell you.


I dare say, with your cannon properly primed and directed toward the offending frost, a quick shot will clear out a nice "porthole of visibility" for you quicker then I can say Holy Fire in the Hole!

However,all seriousness aside, snow is going to an absolute horror and will almost be impossible to comprehend how in Gods' name water can become like powder...I shudder just thinking about it and wish not to plant the stuff of nightmares into your otherwise happy thoughts John. Just lay low and wait for the safety of summers' heat to put things right :)



Cheers!


Peter

[Lew Barrett]

Sketch on it? Sketch you say..... clawmarks more like, as we desperately try to scrabble a porthole of visibilty before freezing blue outside the car. I don't think you realise how cold it gets here....Once I saw a puddle of water with a skin of ice over it. Admittedly that was further south but it was traumatic I can tell you.

"Once I saw water with a skin of ice...... " :D :D
It wasn't from here, mind....but I saw it! ;)

Once I saw a puddle of water with a skin of ice" will have to go down as a classic for proving how perceptions are formed based on one's experience! This week just passed was the hottest on record....ever....in Seattle. It reached 106 in the shade, which was indeed warm for a city where 90% of the homes and an almost equal number of the workplaces are not air conditioned, nor constructed to deal with such conditions. Arizona natives would not find this too awfully unendurable, but they are prepared for it! Having some fun with you John; laughing alongside you! We'll make note to visit in summer!




Nice improvements, Alan, especially the expansion of the hatch. Having some options for good ventilation is going to make summer cruising in tropical summers a real pleasure! And a man sized chair won't hurt either! I'm happy my observations proved useful.

[John B]

Notsummers are the pits Lew.
I've just looked up 106F on the conversion factors part of the diary( not a language I speak)but unfortunately it doesn't seem to go that high and the writing is very small for my unassisted and in denial eyes. That does seems like an awful lot .
Here we don't get tragically cold in winter and only moderately warm in summer, unless you have an adventurous spirit and travel south that is, they get pretty chilly down there.

Alan , she's looking really sharp but , but I can only see the one swandri by Karen Walker upholstered cushion....

[snow(Alan H)]

[QUOTE=John B;2276483

Alan , she's looking really sharp but , but I can only see the one swandri by Karen Walker upholstered cushion....[/QUOTE]

That was the test run - verdict from the review panel was that it would start to look like an old hunting lodge not a classic boat. So for now the fabric is in storage (bottom of wardrobe) & will be revisited in the future.;)

[snow(Alan H)]

only a launchy would paint all that lovely teak tho!! :P and i'm with Dan, the rails gotta go. :D

Jason
Played around on the computer - interested to see what she would look like san the rails. No question - they will have to go.
http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp165/Alanh22/IMG_0692.jpg,

http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp165/Alanh22/IMG_0692_2.jpg

[John B]

mast next!:cool:

[snow(Alan H)]

mast next!:cool:

Short answer - no.:p She has always a mast, well for most of her 80+ years.

[Jay Greer]

A pleasure to see it done wright!
Jay

[snow(Alan H)]

A pleasure to see it done wright!
Jay

Thanks Jay - looking forward to a great summer, now all the work is done. As if its ever all done !
Alan

[snow(Alan H)]

Added some more bling - there should be no confusion as to when its happy hour on RainDance now. For those with good eye-sight & a taste for fine rum, you might recognize the Appleton Rum bell ringer. Cheers

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[Candyfloss]

Appleton's Rum?! Yummmmmm.

[snow(Alan H)]

The last of the bling + a shot of the new cockpit roof / hatch etc

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[dhic001]

Looks good, but whats that blue thing hanging from the jackstaff? Red is the colour man, you are at sea remember! While I'm in a grumble mode, do yourself a favour, and get a real dinghy. I can help you dispose of that inflatable thing, I'm sure it'll melt if I try hard enough :p

Daniel

[John B]

( sharp intake of breath)
:eek:

[dhic001]

Its ok John, you don't use one of those inflatable things, so you are safe. Hmm, but do you fly one of those landlubbers flags?
Daniel

[John B]

Course not. I'm shocked.;)

As a NZ registered ship I'm evidently supposed to fly the ensign alla time. I think I'll hold out until I'm busted.

[snow(Alan H)]

Daniel
If you put your hand in your pocket & joined the CYA in NZ then maybe you could throw eggs but in the mean time tread lightly..........

[dhic001]

I'm only stirring Alan, hope you haven't taken offence. Oh, and the CYA isn't the be all and end all of traditional boats. A lot of my boating has been with someone who
was restoring classic boats during the time when most of the classic yachts were being bastardised, and many of the classic launches were gaining tower blocks on top. The CYA wasn't even a concept in those early years.
Daniel

[John B]

Must do some research on the flag etiquette.
My recollection is that the red ensign as our maritime flag is the correct and preferred flag to fly , however I seem to recall that the national blue ensign is also acceptable on pleasure boats.
There's also Hamish's cross that he had accepted by Maritime NZ , but that seems to have fallen out of favour.
Where's David Lackey when you need him .. I seem to recall he had all the up to date gen.

[snow(Alan H)]

Solved the flag issue - I have put an order in for 100 flags for the CYA use.....

http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp165/Alanh22/Picture1-23.png

[John B]

I'd be happy with that , although I prefer the Hundertwasser koru .

http://www.nzflag.com/images/Hundertwasser.jpg

This our flag.
http://www.mch.govt.nz/nzflag/history/images/nz-ensign.jpg

before it got nicked by a shipping line.

[dhic001]

Solved the flag issue - I have put an order in for 100 flags for the CYA use.....


Interesting one Alan, but I think I'll let you lead the way in flying it. Regardless of current etiquette, I will continue to fly a red duster, as that was the correct one to fly in the period the vessel is attempting to recreate.

Oh, and that pic shows how much of an improvement your new hatch is over the old one, both asthetically and practically. I'm sure you won't regret the time or money spent on it.

Daniel

[snow(Alan H)]

John
Could the start of a come back...

http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp165/Alanh22/CYAensingn.jpg

[snow(Alan H)]

Oh, and that pic shows how much of an improvement your new hatch is over the old one, both asthetically and practically. I'm sure you won't regret the time or money spent on it.

Daniel

Daniel, its changed the whole boat - best money I have spent on her.

[Candyfloss]

The shipping line doesn't need that old rag any more, does it?

[John B]

Shaw Savill ?.. are they still around?( Where's Andrew when you need him)