Hi folks

[DevonDan]

Hi guys am a new boy around here smile.gif I usually inhabit this forum: www.anglersnet.co.uk, (http://www.anglersnet.co.uk,) pay it a visit if you do any fishing, there's a few guys from your side of the pond, and Newt is a wiz on computers if you need a hand.

I only have a little wooden boat, shes an Enterprise, No 73 built around 1960 and still sound although shes due a bit of TLC this winter.

http://www.go-fishing.org/upload/files/boat.jpg

Dan

[DevonDan]

Looks like anglers net is down for maintenance, but their upload picture site works over here!

Dang its 4.30 am with you! better let you get your sleep, I'm off to work!

Dan

[Billy Bones]

I've always liked the look of the Enterprise dinghy.

Welcome aboard, DevonDan!

Look guys, a pic on his first posting. That deserves a salute.

[JimD]

Ahoy, Dan! Nice boat.

[DevonDan]

Cheers guys! Looks a friendly place with a good bit of the usual banter!

Dan

[John Meachen]

Nice to encounter somebody else from England here.By the way,I think you will find that your Enterprise is a little older than you believe it to be.The Enterpise assciation may be able to give you more detail.

[Hwyl]

Welcome DD, I'm a Brit temporarily (20 years and counting) in the colonies.

Another West Country man, John R Smith, used to post on here. Possibly the most popular poster ever. He's been in withdrawal for a couple of years. Search for "the Lulu Sagas".

I've owned a couple of Jack Holt boats and love his designs. It's funny how the Enterprice has endured. I even used to read the News Chronicle (the boat's original sponsor).

[DevonDan]

I am an on off member of the Ent association, but as I dont race there seem too much point at the moment. Apparently the RYA lost all the old records some years back, :( and my number was only painted on the transom. The air bags were original john holts dated 1960 and 2 still held air! So I cant be too sure about its heritage but she's old and wood and we have great times sailing and fishing smile.gif . Usually out of Lyme Regis
which is below
http://www.go-fishing.org/upload/files/lyme.jpg

and this is golden cap where I sail and fish, its the highest cliff on the south coast also called the Jurasic coast http://www.go-fishing.org/upload/files/Thecap.jpg

and this is the biggest fossil I found this year, a brontosaurus I think ;)

http://www.go-fishing.org/upload/files/brontos3.jpg

Dan

[ 10-21-2005, 06:32 PM: Message edited by: DevonDan ]

[bamamick]

Welcome, Dan. Hope you enjoy your visits here and post often.

Mickey Lake

[Domesticated_Mr. Know It All]

Welcome to the WBF Dan. smile.gif
Looks like a nice boat ya have there. :cool:

[DevonDan]

Cheers guys I'll post some more pics as I tidy her up over the winter (if I can make room in my garage that is, oh for a workshop like Norm Abrahams!) ;)

Dan

[ 10-22-2005, 02:48 PM: Message edited by: DevonDan ]

[JimD]

Funny how skulls always look like they're smiling

http://www.go-fishing.org/upload/files/brontos3.jpg

[Wild Wassa]

G'day Devon Dan. A belated welcome to the forum.

Lyme Regis ... an Olympic sailing venue?

Warren.

[ 10-22-2005, 04:54 PM: Message edited by: Wild Wassa ]

[DevonDan]

I'm not aware Lyme Regis is an Olimpic venue (I'll do some checking) although it is only about 15-20 miles from Weymouth and Portland which is the location, did you mean Wyke Regis, that is next to Weymouth?

Dan

[ 10-23-2005, 06:40 PM: Message edited by: DevonDan ]

[Wild Wassa]

Devon Dan, Hwyl put a post about the Olympic sailing site on the Forum just after the winning bid was announced. He posted a fantastic aerial photo of Portland Bill. Lyme Regis when I checked the map, looks like only a quick nip across the bay, for lunch. All too easy?

I sail an old English bay boat, a wooden Seafly. She feels like a real sail and not just a scoot across the water when I'm in her, that I don't find when in faster dinghies.

I maintain Sea Scout boats here in the ACT, the Scouts have an old Enterprize. The White Swan she is called. The first boat that I sailed with the Sea Scouts here in Canberra was the very same Enterprize. The kids call her the White Submarine, they tend to lose her a lot.

Warren.

[ 10-24-2005, 05:52 PM: Message edited by: Wild Wassa ]

[DevonDan]

Hi Wild Wassa
Ive got some pics of the Bay somewhere i'll see if I can dig them out. To get to Weymouth from Lyme you have to go around Portland, (the place where the stone comes from .. St Pauls Cathedral etc) It kind of an Island connected to the mainland by a shingle spit (Chesil Beach), the tides meet either side and the race is something to be wary of! easier to trailer the boat and launch at Weymouth!
My Ent was owned by the Sea scouts and had spent a few weeks half submerged in the river Exe! They have a large sail area and are a little tippy! but I have to say that now my kids have grown up I spend more time with the outboard than the sails, fishing for bass. Plus the fact that I still have the wooden mast and as its had a few repairs I'd rather not accidentally shorten it!

dan

[DevonDan]

Ps got any pics of your Seafly? oh and you can just see Portland directly above the two people on the beach in the pic above, looks like an island but isnt!

dan

[ 10-24-2005, 07:40 PM: Message edited by: DevonDan ]

[Wild Wassa]

Devon Dan, This is how she was when I bought her. I bought the trailer in anticipation of finding a good Seafly but that didn't happen. The seller of the trailer, gave me the boat to get rid of her. The boat is Coachwood marine ply. Nice and light well under Class weight now, she had ballast to make Class weight, which got lost, :rolleyes: . I only fixed her to practice on originally but she came good. When I've finished playing with her in a few years time, she will be given to the Sea scouts.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/p496dc5dc74e3b523e56516a8b28f5447/fc4e6059.jpg

I wooded her and fixed her with CPES and Fill-It. Made 5mm epoxy/glass laminates, to repair the largest holes. Some holes have been repaired with ply.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid61/p121869abdd9bfc297452a6b3a8a59c18/fc298823.jpg


Faired her well and she is now painted in a 2 pack water based polyurethane, Aquacote. Lots of cut and polish ... a good slippery racing skin. The photo below was taken prior to polishing.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid172/pa7c6606ed5c8709e9a6ecc656c7cc7c8/f3c08dad.jpg

It is painting boats and fairing foils, that I like ... doing the general woodworking, which is unavoidable, I have not warmed to at all.



Warren.

[ 10-28-2005, 05:40 PM: Message edited by: Wild Wassa ]

[skuthorp]

Welcome Dan, My mum came from Wyke Regis, her father was RSM at Portsmouth barracks and a wireless telegraphy specialist during WW1. I spent some time in Portland in the mid '60's. :cool:

[DevonDan]

Thats some finish Warren, mines no where near that!

Skuthorpe

I used to go to cub camp at Wyke Regis! Portland is beautiful if a bit bleak but you cant mention the word rabbit because they are superstitious, (rabbits undermined the old stone workings) they even changed the ad for the new wallace and grommit film so it didnt offend! Thems real diffrent volk down yer!

Dan

[ 10-27-2005, 04:46 PM: Message edited by: DevonDan ]