Another freebie from Holzbt's Graveyard!

[Donn]

Roger, under instructions from his wife to reduce his inventory, just dropped off a 12' fiberglass Dyer Dhow.

It's currently upside-down on the boardwalk in the back yard. There's a 10% chance it'll get fixed and used as a rowboat, and a 90% chance it'll get painted and used as a planter.

:cool:

[Wild Dingo]

:cool: lucky buggar! ;)

I gotta get me a neighbor like Roger one of these days :cool:

[Dave Fleming]

Dhowman, will be green with envy.

[Donn]

OK...power-washed and inspected. To refresh memories, the hull looks like this:

http://www.marinebrokerage.com//info/data/12dyer01.jpg

Same hull shape, but mine has a center board trunk, and little else inside. Most, if not all the hardware is absent, the rails are rotten, and there are a half-dozen 9mm bullet holes in the hull. It's red with a blue bottom. All the pics I've found show all white as the traditional color.

Now I'm thinking 5% chance I cut out the CB trunk, glass over the holes, put new rails and a thwart or 2 in, and make her a rowboat.

95% chance I paint her outside with flat white exterior paint, paint on some faux rails and fill her with plants. I was going to build a 12x5 raised bed planter on one end of the boardwalk, and this is ready made.

If I change my mind in a couple of years, she'll be no worse for wear, eh?

[Dave Fleming]

Well O&O East you do have a plate full of projects right now and into the foreseeable future so I cannot see the Dhow as a high priority item.
Much as I dislike seeing boats used for other purposes perhaps a gardening container would not be bad for that feeberglaz dingy.

I do believe from what little I know about the stuff that water will seep into open spots ie: 9MM bullet holes and start degrading the bond.
Some sealant on/in those holes might be a good idea if there is any chance you might wish to return the Dhow to its original purpose.

Jes' my thinkin' is all.

[ 08-07-2004, 02:53 PM: Message edited by: Dave Fleming ]

[Donn]

Good idea, Dave. And I'll have to drill additional holes in her for drainage, unless I go ahead and cut out the CB trunk.

[Donn]

Update. SWMBO has come home from a family get-together, and has seen the boat. She doesn't want it painted white, rather left in it's faded and weathered condition, and used as a planter.

What a woman! :D

[Mrleft8]

I just finished replacing the rails on a Dyer Dhow. It's really quite easy. The hardware is all pretty much off the shelf stuff. It might take you 2 days and about $50 to get that puppy back in the water.... Or if Holzbit's got some old parts lying around.... Nevermind....Planter it is!

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Donn RESTORE her. They are great little boats

You can get everything you need for it at Brewers

Brewers Post Road Boat Yard
Mamaroneck, NY
Phone: (914) 698-0295
Fax: (914) 698-6203
Email: prb@byy.com
Web: www.byy.com (http://www.byy.com)

They have all the parts. Pre steam bent gunnel, CB bronze fittings the works

I got mine for free it was sunk in mud, almost a planter and I went from this:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid56/pcee5d7accd78ee04efe106e2e6b14ca0/fc76c4c0.jpg

To this
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid53/pcd7c0b520c996f1ea0b00b14c7bdcc19/fc93286e.jpg

[Donn]

Nope. For now, at least, she'll be a planter. I'm taking the rotten rail and rivets off the inboard gunwale now. Then I'll drill a few more drainage holes, and slide her into place at the end of the boardwalk. It'll take probably the rest of the season to fill her up with topsoil, compost, grass clippings and shredded leaves. By next spring, the soil will be ready to plant in.

I'm going to grow a variety or ornamental grasses in her, to screen off the fiberglass boats at the end of the canal.

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

:(

[Donn]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/donnwest/misc081904003.jpg

It completely obscures the old aluminum rowboat and partially hides the fiberglass Aquasport, parked at the end of the canal.

[David Conard]

Shouldn't you make the extra drain holes with a 9mm so they'll match?

[WindHawk]

Now, how would you know they're 9mm bullet holes? ;)

[Keith G.]

Originally posted by WindHawk:
Now, how would you know they're 9mm bullet holes? ;) Silly! That's easy! The 9 mm holes only have entry wounds. It's the .45 holes that have entry AND exit wounds.

Sometimes multiple entries and exits. :D

[ 08-20-2004, 04:42 PM: Message edited by: Keith G. ]

[Billy Bones]

I must confess that I don't get the whole dyer mystique. I inherited one and put on mahogany rails only to discover that the thing is an aquapig. What a...a....well, give me a coracle any day.

Another vote for planter.

[LeeG]

planter,,how about grape hyacinths in waves around it?