A Farrier tri.3

[Wild Wassa]

The restoration of Ian Farrier's first ever trimaran, which he built and called 'Trailertri' has been happening off and on by her owner for about a year. I've been giving her owner advice throughout the past year on how best to attack her, he has done well but ... her owner has now employed a heavier hitter to get her back on the water as the restoration has been a bit too slow.

Tomorrow I start working on her, like seriously working on her to help speed up the restoration. The boat will be brought back to her original colour scheme and faired to the hilt.

The boat can be seen on Ian Farrier's website in her original condition.

I feel privileged to be putting my time into the little tri to put her back on the water. I've been on some of Farrier's big tris and they are awsomely quick. Being able to work on the original boat will enhance my feelings about his tris.

The boat went up on the hoist today ... four weeks has been set to complete the restoration and to paint her.

She isn't pretty ... but she soon will be. Photos taken today.


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Warren.

[rufustr]

Please make regular posts with lots of photos.:)

[Rick Starr]

You have my rapt attention.

[John Bell]

Four weeks! Wow, that's fast. You must be as good as I think you are.

Presumably there aren't any structural issues to be resolved, then?

[Paul Pless]

Please make regular posts with lots of photos.:)
Four weeks! He probably won't have the time to post much here.;)

Warren! good show.

[brian.cunningham]

Nice to hear.
I'm glad such a historic boat is being restored.

[B_B]

Four weeks! Wow, that's fast. You must be as good as I think you are. Presumably there aren't any structural issues to be resolved, then?

my thoughts exactly - wish you all the best! :D

[brian.cunningham]

I let Ian know, he seems happy.

In a message dated 2/2/2007 1:40:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, ifm@f-boat.com writes:
There are also some additional photos of how it was before start of
restoration at:

http://www.f-boat.com/pages/news/Trailertri18.html

It was good to see the old boat (32 years old now) still going strong.

Ian Farrier

Farrier Marine (NZ) Ltd
Farrier Marine, Inc.

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[bamamick]

There is a bit of a movement around here towards the smaller, offshore racing tri's. Seems that people who lost keelboats in the different storms have had enough and are looking for different kinds of boats. There are now enough of the tri's to race together as a fleet, and of course our Finn fleet is just about to hit twenty boats. We are pretty much buying up all of the used Finns in North America, no matter the age or condition.

I am willing to bet that your project winds up a jaw-dropper.

Mickey Lake

[Hans Friedel]

Go Warren!

[Wild Wassa]

Thankyou for the kind words Super Skippers ... but please come and help.

Brian C, a particularly nice addition to the thread Mate, cheers Skipper.

I mentioned to Ian her owner, that I have started a thread on the wooden boat Forum. If he was as weary as I was at the end of yesterday, he might not have had the energy to find the WBF site let alone remember anything that was said. Yesterday he and I drank half of the lake. Yesterday was very hot and very rarely do I see a worker who can tire me out. Usually I have an owner on a defribulator by lunchtime. The owner Ian, ... might not be a human, I'll check if he can lift his arms above his head today, that is a good indicator as to the species.

He told me yesterday that the 4 weeks to get the boat on the water, isn't a hard and fast thing ... that is a shame, working a longside him for longer than 4 weeks could kill me.

Yesterday he asked me if I was racing today, "No, I'm working on a boat and I'm having a break from racing." My Skipper and I are on holidays. Then he said, "Bad luck, I'm racing," ... or words similar. He is wise avoiding today's paint stripping ... because yesterday was only a warmup day.

Structural issues? They are being addressed ... the paint is coming off, could there be other things?

Apart from a few rusty bolts, the real hastle will be redoing the old inapropriate repairs done by others and staying hydrated. Staying hydrated in the heat is the real issue ... the rest of it is just boat stuff.

There are several holes in the hull that need carbon ... I mean scarfing. I hope I can remember how to do it in wood.

There is one issue that has me puzzled. The beams were removed by a previous owner and then coated in a well painted and carefully taped antiskid surface. When the beams were reinstalled the anti skid ended up on the underside of the beams only ... ??? This can't be a mistake, no one could make a mistake like this. It must be an advanced thinking in boat painting.

I can't imagine that the little tri is an easy boat to turtle and needs an under beam antiskid. This advanced thinking might need rethinking though. There must be a reason for it. This antiskid placement has me totally bluffed ... there is no antiskid on the right side of the slippery beams.

There is one other thing ... Ian Farrier's choice of yellow paint was wildish. The yellow colour is much brighter and adventurous in real life than the colour which appears in the photograph. All of the original yellow paint is still on the boat ... every single ounce of it, except for the 200 sq metres that is polluting the Canberra Yacht Club boat park. The true yellow colour is, Bright Cadmium Yellow ... and it is very bright.

A few pictures from yesterday's close of play ... thankyou linesmen, thankyou ball boys and a big thankyou to the CYC bar tenders.


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I don't think that I should change the strings on the centre board below when I restore the CB ... not because they are just barely salvagable or because this stuff is possibly heritage listed string ... but because I probably can't buy uncoloured stuff like this in Vectran or Spectra.

Ian said to me yesterday, that the previous owner told him that in the eight years that he had owned the boat he had not seen the centreboard, not once. Now there is a guy who goes sailing ... while some just work on boats. The trailer looks original too, it is probably heritage listed and could have hauled tenders ... from the First Fleet.


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Today, is another day ... for colouring more of the CYC boat park in a wild cadmium yellow. Today I'll photograph the yellow.

Warren.

[Rick Starr]

She'll appreciate your ministrations.

Funnily enough just hours before you posted this I was tootling around Christiansted Harbor in Snark and snapped a couple of photos of Trine*, splashed last year after some cosmetic work.

*When Dick Newick lived here and built boats, he found himself with $10000 and built the most boat he could for that money. She is still in the charter livery, all these years later. She was his first trimaran, built in 1960. I love that boat, one of these days I'll have to finnagle a ride.

[Wild Wassa]

Yesterday I asked Ian the owner, how did you handle day one? I said that I was weary and crashed when I got home. He said, "Last night, I slept the sleep of the dead." That is the commitment that's needed.

Day two is over and this is the original yellow, Cadmium Yellow, the colour that Ian Farrier painted the boat .... this choice of design element, shows a very confident use of colour.


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The wooding of the boat has come on along way now and I'm looking forward to starting day three ... which is only a few hours away.

The boat is off the hoist until Friday. There are a few tricky bits to scrape and being eight foot off the ground up a ladder, isn't the place to do it.

This site the WBF has greater traffic than I thought. Yesterday several people came to the Canberra Yacht Club to see the boat.

I asked each of them, including their wives (not wanting to discriminate of course) ... had they come to do the paint strippers' course? I got no takers, not one, but I got a lot of shocked looks from the blokes ... and a lot of laughs from their wives.

This tells me that there must be a few wooden boat restorations happening here in Canberra, that can only be concidered ... as long term works in progress.

Warren.

[Rick Starr]

What sort of stripper do you recommend? I'm looking at wooding soon.

[Wild Wassa]

Rick, we are using a fast acting 'Polystrippa' gel stripper, 2-3 minute at the most. ... when we are using paint stripper. We will also use a 30 second max' automotive spray-on stripper, for the metal bits later down the track. The soft antifoul we removed using carbide scrapers.

The stripping happens over two applications. The first application gets rid of the first half a dozen topcoats, which takes just a few minutes ... about five minutes with the fast acting stripper.


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The second application takes only about 1 minute and cleans up what ever paint is left. The epoxy coat is generally sound so we are trying not to disturb it too much. Then copious amounts of metho are used to neutralize the stripper residue.


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Stripping is also being done using tungsten carbide scrapers only, without using the paint stripper. We are not using heat guns on the boat. There is glass tape and glass sheathing that can be disturbed with heat. The tape and sheathing has remained in good shape over 95% of the boat. We are being overly careful near tape, epoxy/glass macro filets and glass sheathing. One doesn't want to undo the good work of another ... not mentioning names of course.

One benefit of working long hours on the boats (I'm doing collision repairs to several boats at the moment, including doing collision repairs to a Farrier 680R called 'Tekoa'), has been when travelling home about 8pm, the light has been stunning ... which slightly makes up for the extreme temperatures during the day.

Storm over Mount Agie and the Bimbiri Wilderness ... Saturday evening.


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I didn't work on boats all day yesterday. We took out an I14 (a red one) when the heat got to me in the afternoon and we played capsizing boats to cool down. When the boat kept going over neither of us was in a hurray to put the boat back up or even stop her from going over ... we capsized more times in five knots of wind yesterday than I have in the last 15 years when sailing in 20+. Being wet and hanging out on the wire was delightful. People in the beer garden of the yacht club must have wondered about the lack of skill by two jokers who took half an hour to right a dinghy each time they went over ... and then I went back to work in the cool of the evening, soggy but happy. Yesterday was hot.

Last night the light was exceptional. There are bush fires about in the mountains. The smoke made the heat even more oppressive yesterday.

A Little Coot at the Deep Water Mark on Lake Barely Sailable.


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Ian the owner, is about to be introduced to the sweet smell of CPES ... there will be other benefits as well.

Warren.

[brian.cunningham]

I got another message from Ian:

In a message dated 2/5/2007 7:22:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, ifm@f-boat.com writes:
Brian,

In regards to:

http://www.woodenboatvb.com/vbulletin/upload/showthread.php?t=61172_

The original paint was called Signal Yellow (from Epiglass/Epicraft), and
the centerboard still looks like it has the original blue anti-fouling. If
so, then it has lasted the life of the boat!

You can pass this onto 'Wild Wassa' as I don't have his email address

With Regards,

Ian Farrier

Farrier Marine (NZ) Ltd
Farrier Marine, Inc.

Keep up the good work!

[Vince Brennan]

THIS is the kinda post series I joined for! Thanks, Warren! Too interesting for words!

[Wild Wassa]

Vince, your comment and of other Members makes my time spent posting, doubly worthwhile. I enjoy your posts Vince. I photographed a small display of knots at a traditional boat rigger at Lake Macquarie not too long ago, I'll put them on the bottom of this post. They are not as complex as your work (that I've seen), but the rigger has them well displayed.

Brian, thanks again. I called the colour Cadmium Yellow because it is the traditional pigment's name. The pigments of cadmium sulphide and barium sulphate ... but now we have 'Signal Yellow' thanks to you and Ian F, that is excellent and saves work tracking down the closest marine paint equivalent. Thankyou Skipper. This work has developed into a fine collaboration from a few. I'm sure Ian L when he again reads this thread ... will be blown away (or most pleased).

Well the weather has conspired against us. There have been Code Yellow storm warnings here in the Territory (don't ask me what a Code Yellow storm warning is but they have been running across the bottom of the TV screen for the last few days). I've had my eye on the Doppler Radar on the Canberra Yacht Club site since Friday ... and the storms have been heavy to extreme here.

Ian L the owner went to the Wooden Boat Festival in Hobart this weekend. He timed it well while I intended to push on with the boat ... it's all right for some?

I was going to continue with deck repairs and also continue with the stripping this weekend, which has all come to naught. I'm going to see the boat this morning ... and empty her of water. She is covered but I doubt whether the covers kept the water out this weekend.

Warren.

PS, A display of knots (just a small part of the dispays) from a traditional boat rigger at Wangi Wangi at LakeMacquarie.


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[Wild Wassa]

The work is proceeding nicely despite Mother Nature intervening ... although the rain is needed here.

The boat has been up and down (on the hoist) more than the average dog's hind leg lately, thanks to repeated extreme storm warnings, that have all come to naught. The bees are waxing-up their hives here in Canberra, a visitor to the boat told me yesterday. So the giant flood could be coming. "We had best get this boat CPES'ed quickly" ... said Noah to his day labourers.

Many Farrier owners have come to visit the boat now. Last weekend a father and his son from New Zealand, spent much time at the boat discussing the merits of Farrier designs and just chatting about their visit to Canberra. Where Ian L and I are working on the boat, it has many merits, thanks to the visitors and sailing friends who stop by. Where we work it doesn't get lonely.

Many unknown visitors just tell me how to do it but they don't offer to pick up a tool while I continued working and show me how to do it! ... this must be a virtual boat restoration thing.

A chap who has just taken ten years to build a Farrier 720 (?) was commenting on how smooth the wooded hull is on the little tri. I suggested that he comes back in a week or two ... and remember what he has just felt. There will be no comparison.


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There is much to be seen when stripping a boat ... I find. Photo below of some early hull scratchings.


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Slowly working on stripping a boat tells me a lot about the person who made her. About her then good owners and the vandals who should not have been let lose on any boat ... and those currently working on her of course. I'd like to meet the person who used a grinder on the ply! Also, unfaired car bog has not been given its rightfull recognition and place in history that it so greatly deserves in boating ... many an old boat has remained on the water thanks to it. Now to get rid of it.

The stripping of the hull, deck and cockpit is almost done. Sealing and finishing the beam wells are the next most important job ... if the flooding rains are coming (so say the honey bees) this is a priorety.

Some of the glass sheathing has to be removed at the skeg. It has gone drummy. The brass skeg strakes need removing, the rot addressed and the strakes rebedded. Photo below. It is amazing how the difficult bits to work, like tight concaves near skegs and hulls somehow never get to see sandpaper ... sanding is not even attempted when repairs and repainting are needed by some owners in concave shapes. Two inches in total of anti-foul is not a real good look ... it would have been the grinder jockey who left it (I'll bet Ian's boat on it).


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Many holes have been cut into the boat and inept repairs done by inept previous owners. These will be closed with timber and glass cloth. Some rotten bits need to be dug out, then preserved and fixed and much fairing done. This is not something sane people would look forward to doing ... but I am. I find fairing theraputic.

Ian L, her owner, works on her many morning before work and many afternoon after work as well as many weekends. He tells me that working on her, is so different to his day job ... that he finds it theraputic. I do too normally but I'm going to a doctor tomorrow to discuss a dry cough that I've developed and see what he suggests that is theraputic.

It is time to go and seal a boat ... again.

Warren.

[Wild Dingo]

Great stuff Warren :cool:

For the first time ever Im tempted to head over as its presently as cold as a nuns tit here :mad: Flamin February and its friggin cold? this is a bloody first in my memory hopefully it eill warm up for me birfdy in a few days time :rolleyes:

Sooo how goes todays efforts? :cool:

[Wild Wassa]

That means that in 4 days from now Dingo the cool air will be here. I can't wait.

We are heading over your way so my dear wife tells me. Helen didn't say when, she wants to see the Wild West. She is a bit of a traveller is my wife ... so she is always welcome to drag me along.

I'm going to work now. I'll post some photos when I get back tonight. The boat stripping has come on well.

Warren.

[Wild Wassa]

An exploratory cut in the sheathing.


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Oh very interesting ... indeed.


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My humble opinion is, the boat was progressing far too easily.


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Tomorrow ... we will be ruthless.

Warren.

[Wild Dingo]

Well when ever she decides you need to wander over give me a hoi... we'll arc up the barbie down a few coldies then swap a bit of bs an see whats what eh? :cool:

looks innerestin in there eh ;)

[brian.cunningham]

Was that just the sheathing, or has the ply delaminated?

[Wild Wassa]

G'day Brian. Thanks for your posts mate, they are terrific and a good addition to the thread.

The ply is perfectly sound it isn't boggy at all or delaminated, of the ply which we have 'so far' uncovered. It is just a bit wet from the last few weeks rain it appears and this has reactivated the mould. Rain got under the covers and came in through the forward hatch and pooled behind the forward bulkhead and mixed with old sawdust ... need I go on?

This fungus/mould is on the surface and it was just as well that we openned the sheathing up. Last night Ian L and I spent the last of the daylight hours taking the sheathing off the boat and trying to remove the brass skeg strakes. They will be off the boat this morning and the last of the sheathing, below the waterline and on the bow, will be given the big flick as well this morning. Ian F used multiple layers of sheathing (3 and 4 layers), of varying weights of glass to strenghthen and build up the levels.

The leading edge of the skeg. No real dramas.


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A lot of the filletting will be removed and replaced (where the skeg and the hull join). Half of the filletting dropped off when we were removing the glass or that that didn't, much is cracked and brittle and is just as easy to remove. Some of the old epoxy has shrunk and created voids, an easy fix.

Towards the back of the skeg ... again no dramas.

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It will be a chlorox on wood morning this morning while we wait on the CPES to be delivered.

Warren.

[brian.cunningham]

Warran,
More info from Ian:

In a message dated 2/19/2007 7:48:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, ifm@f-boat.com writes:

Brian,

I still can't post so if you can forward this for me:

The prototype was actually fiberglassed using an isopthalic polyester resin - I could not afford epoxy at the time, and polyester was commonly used for sheathing in those days.

So it could peel off easily once surface has been cut, as it appears to be doing. Epoxy, no doubt would have stayed on, but then the polyester did last for over 30 years!

With Regards,

Ian Farrier

Farrier Marine (NZ) Ltd
Farrier Marine, Inc.

[Wild Wassa]

Thankyou for being on this thread Ian Farrier. I hope you are enjoying seeing your old boat. She is in good hands.

Here at the Canberra Yacht Club she is becoming the icon boat, a feature of visiting the club for some sailors. Every day she/we get a least a dozen visitors taking an interest in her, with many return visitors.

Often I'm asked, no doubt Ian L has also asked, about the timber. I guess and say, I think it could be ... ... ..., but, but it might not be. Could you please end the dilemma. I wont say what I think it is. Ian L knows what I think it is.

She is just so good looking even from behind (but then many are).


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A Pretty Moon Faced Girl.

Dutch Rub started a thread on the WBForum about how practical is it to sheath wood in polyester. Well I hope Dutch is looking at the thread. It doesn't 'all' come off easily and as Ian F said, "...did last for over 30 years." It is an amazingly smooth surface in generally excellent condition. It is a sturdy surface. When I first made the exploratory cuts, I smelt no epoxy at all. The responce to Dutch's question from many was, it can't work ... it will just rot the wood. Not as fast as poorly maintained epoxy or varnish does.

Not all of the polyester and cloth is coming off easily though, sadly ... we will be slinging the heat guns off the hip again this morning. All of the polyester is being removed below the blue tape (photo below). That's where I made the cut. It doesn't look like much work in the photo. I used over a packet of Dremel sanding drums making the cut, many drums just exploded. I was hoping that below the cut the polyester basin would just drop off and give me a starting point to do a restoration of an Ian Farrrier tri.


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Back into it. We will have the wood dressed and ready for mould detoxing today.

Warren.

PS, The hard stands were removed for the photo above. There is no way we would just sling her up for longer than a photo moment ... unlike Flying High. I had to tie Flying High down.


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[ianlf]

In reply to:

>Often I'm asked, no doubt Ian L has also asked, about the timber. I >guess and say, I think it could be ... ... ...,

It was a long time ago, but I'm fairly sure I used oregon for all the stringers etc., with Hoop pine for the ply.

Glue was initially resorcinal, but I think I switched to epoxy part way through. Resorcinal is a great glue, but not very good at gap filling. Trailertri Too (#2) was definitelty all epoxy.

Ian Farrier

[Wild Wassa]

Cheers Ian.

We weren't too far off with our choices ... somewhere in there we mentioned these two timbers. About the only marine ply that is readilly available here now, is Hoop Pine ... in my neck of the bush. The repairs will be in Hoop, which I already have. Being Hoop is a bonus.

The Hoop has lasted very well. The colour is amazingly rich. The solid Hoop timbers haven't deteriorated one iota. The surround to the companion way is looking like new timber.

Ian L, said that he had mentioned to you, that one of her previous owners installed a front hatch to allow the bow to become a chain locker. This certainly has become an aid for access for the vacuum cleaner.


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Ian L has done a good job of stripping the cabin. He is going to varnish (or clear coat) much of the timber in the cabin after we dress the timber. The endless wooding continues ... there are some narrow spaces to attack still.


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The colours of an early start to a day.

It has been good working on the boat ... working on her outside has encouraged late afternoon electrical storms. It feels like being in the tropics, the humidity is enervating. Keeping the boat dry has curtailed much progress but having the rain makes up for it. We sure do need the drought breaking rains here.


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The colours of an early end to a day.

Warren.

[rufustr]

Wassa,

What powerful proof of the potential longevity of hoop pine in boat building.
Looks fantastic.
Thanks for the photos.
Please keep them coming.

[Wild Wassa]

Thanks Rufus. As I wrote, being Hoop is a bonus. I will not question Hoop's suitability for boat timber after seeing how well it has lasted in this boat. It is a shame that timely maintenance wasn't kept going on "Trailertri', otherwise there would not be a single problem apart from the inept repairs. It wasn't the timber that failed.

Today is my 10th day working on the boat. The last 9 days have been very enjoyable.

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Still wooding. The anti mould is now on ... but not for long. I'll remove the antimould residues so that CPES can strut its stuff.

Now for the job that I'm not looking forward to ... feathering the cut to take the new glass. I'll do it while the CPES (which still to go on) is curing.

Today we are moving onto finishing the deck and CPES'ing the coach house hopefully ... IF the CPES has arrived! Senseal in Melbourne had an overnight delivery service once ... now they appear to be in Aussie summertime mode.


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Passing storm.

The boat got wet again yesterday afternoon. I couldn't get the covers on her fast enough, or I should say, I did but not set up well. The storm was very heavy and the covers formed reservoirs and overflowed into the boat. Then I sponged out the bilge and got the heat gun onto her. I spent ages doing it and then it came down again, in even bigger buckets. The rain has been fantastic. Storms again are forcast for today but now there is a mega tarp on the boat ... and a real little steamer for the fungus.

Warren.

[Rick Starr]

Thank you very much for the narrative. I'm following eagerly--it's the first post I check for. Extracurricular volunteer projects (it's spring musical season at school) have eaten horribly into my idle surfing time but I'm still here and watching and learning. Thx.

[Wild Wassa]

G'day Rick. Music is a big part of my family's happenings so your prioreties are, how I'd like to be more often. Lucy our daughter, plays the trumpet in the Canberra Youth Orchestra, so I can relate in spirit. When the kids are blowing up a storm ... it is more classy than boats. I hope your youngun' is doing well and also blowing up a storm.

We've pushed on with the little tri. The stripping of the main hull is nearly finished ... just one job at a time. We are now going over the main hull like marine dematologists at the moment. We are removing every last speck of paint, daggy bog and taking the glass off the deck on the main hull.


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The bit that I'm really looking forward to, is building up all the edges like a well finished car body. I like well shaped edges, they look classy ... unlike her previous owner's finish and repairs. The previous owner has caused much damage, we will most likely fill more than 150 (empty) screw holes in the boat and redo at least a dozen repairs and remove several inept mods. Someone was given a new drill one Christmas ... and really lost the plot.


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One thing that is most evident is the longevity of the stainless steele fasteners over the copper and brass fasteners in both the Hoop and Oregon. The Oregan is incredible timber, the closeness of the annular rings is an eye strainer.


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The stainless steel screws and nails look like they were fitted yesterday, where as the copper and brass fasteners have caused damage, promoted the onset of rot and caused much staining of the timbers, the photo below. The copper and brass nails and screws have been a weak link in the boat generally. The stainless steel nails and screws remain faultless, totally faultless. We are swappimg to quality stainless fasteners when we need to.

Now CPES'ed. The glass on the deck was stripped off. The lose filler has been removed. Much white Sikaflex type of stuff, was also cut away and things looked really good until we slapped the CPES on. CPES describes the rot ... very nicely.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/pbda12aa8d32080dc346647cacdc99c40/ea7dadf9.jpg


In Smith and Co's CPES data sheet it says, remove 97% of the paint before CPES'ing. Only 97% ... 97%? It is removal of that final 3% of the paint that makes the job worth doing.

We will start filling and reglassing in a day or two. Much prep has been done to the deck and cockpit now. It is good to be CPES'ing at last.

Warren.

[Wild Wassa]

The relentless afternoon storms which have slowed the progress on the boat, have been good for the landscape. The trees that were on their last legs are coming back to life thanks to the rain. So when I got home from work the other evening, I took this photo of what appeared to be just another looming storm and the possibility of getting more life giving rain. During a serious drought rain is everything.


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Hardly a drop fell on us last evening sadly, ... but all around us the thunder and lightening was huge and scary.

Wanting an early start to yesterday, I headed off to work at dawn ... but only made it 500 metres down the road before having to stop and consider heading back home. The previous night's storm was a bit bigger than I thought.

When I reached the gully on William Hovell Drive, the infill was close to the same level as the banks. This gully is nornally 5 metres deep. Could this be a mud slide, filling the gully? This is not normally a small gully and what is this snow on the ground? This is meant to be summer.


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The new growth in the woodlands has been stripped. Barely a leaf remains, over a swathe of several kilometres. Shock horror. The trees in the photo below are those in the top photo of this post.


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... and the land slip that filled the gully had blocked the road.


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These blocks of mud (or hopefully giant Lamingtons) are as big as washing machines and refrigerators with a light fog in places. I couldn't see any signs of scars on the hill showing a mud slide. Curiouser and curiouser.


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The early start to the day isn't looking very good ... but it sure is interesting.


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... until I kicked a block of grass covered mud.


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Hail ... a glacier of grass and chopped leaf covered hail. The William Hovell Drive Glacier not unlike the Franz Joseph Glacier ... not particularly similar but just as poetic in name.


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Back to the boat. Close to midmorning I finally get to work and I'm working on the boat, when one of Ian L's friends comes up to me and says, "Ian could be here soon. The university has been closed because of hail damage to 60 buildings." (Which is now worse than first thought, it is 70 uni buildings uninhabitable and dangerous and the Australian National University is closed for a week).

Ian L and I will have a good few days working on his boat together ... all thanks to hail.

When Ian arrived he told me that the hail damage is wide spread in the city. He needed to use the internet. No one was allowed in his building at the uni, so he went looking for an internet cafe or library in the city. The places he found in the city were all flooded, so he gave up looking. Ian also said that the worst hail damage done to a building at the uni was at the Centre for Climate Change ... who would have thought?

The hail raised the water level in Lake Barely Sailable by about 40cm yesterday and 70cm in total over the past week. The water level has been a bit low, causing keel damage to some trailables. It has been a wild couple of weeks here weather wise.

Ian and I should get a lot done on the boat over the next few days ... if the weather behaves. Last night was wild again just crazy weather. I can't even say, "it is good weather for ducks," because hundreds of small birds here have been killed, thanks to a night of hail. I suppose from head injuries ... don't laugh.

Warren.

[Wild Wassa]

Ian, photos from the Corsair Multihull Week thread. There are a few Farrier designs on this thread. Have a good break ... C'ya.

http://www.woodenboatvb.com/vbulletin/upload/showthread.php?t=58398&highlight=Wangi

Warren.

[ewan]

"a real little steamer for the fungus."

i have a hoop pine kayak frame that got rained on -bare wood in middle of construction- what do you use to get rid of fungus?

borax - antifreeze??

ewan

[Wild Wassa]

G'day Mate.

I have just finished using the last of my 'old' Chlorox and I'm unable to buy a replacment that doesn't now contain Teflon, so I've switched products.

I'm now using 'Mould Action Pre-Paint' from Flood Industries, available at most pro paint stores. Mould Action Pre-Paint doesn't contain Ammonia or Formaldehyde and it is biodegradable. Flood make Floetrol and Penetrol, which have a fine track record, so I'm confident the new treatment will be just as good, if not better than Chlorox.

I'm not a fan of antifreeze (although some swear by it) after one of the Forum's past Elite Members called 'The Chemist', posted a detailed assessment of the hazards to health of using it. I'm lead to believe, antifreeze is a serious carcinogen.

Warren.

[Mark Hastings]

How's it going Warren

This is a great thread (except for the part where you didn't get a pic of my boat "Try Flying" at Wangi ;p). Make sure Ian brings the girl up for next year and let me know when he will be takeing her out for an inaugural sail we really should get as many TT's and Tramps together to celebrate the rebirth of the matriarch which started it all.

I posted a link to this thread on our TT Yahoo group ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TrailerTris/ (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TrailerTris/) )
so all the other old school Farriers can marvel at the great work you guys are doing.

All the best.

Mark

[ewan]

WW - thanks for the info.
it's appreciated, i was a bit amazed at the rate of spread during a single working week.

[Wild Wassa]

Ewan, you're welcome Mate. Good luck. I think that you will find that your timber will clean-up nicely. I'll post shots tomorrow showing how well Flood's anti-mould worked for us.

Mark, it is good to hear from you Mate. So I missed photographing Try Flying!, did I? I could have been saving the shot for a special occassion ... like now. Thanks for letting your Members know about this thread.

Try Flying! a Farrier 720.


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Two of the worst mould affected areas above the skeg that were treated with Flood's 'Mould Action Pre-Paint' and then the chemical residue was hosed off and the timber dried.


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Fordeck being refaired ... prior to reglassing.


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Reshaping the gunwales in the early stages (still prior to reglassing). Working with plastics and repairing the lines and rebuilding shapes is the most enjoyable part of working with epoxy. You get three goes at fairing with epoxy ... thanks to the epoxy shrinking, reshrinking and then doing more shrinking. Epoxy is no one hit wonder. If it was for you ... just wait.


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There is a lot to strip on a 18ft boat. This next bit of paint removal is being done by my trained ferret Zac.

Zac can just squeeze in to the places that humans can't. I've cut down a tungsten carbide corner scraper for Zac to use. Have you read the children books about the Borrowers, the little people who live under the stairs? ... Zac is negotiating a workplace agreement with the Borrowers to help get this job done.


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See you all again after the Marley Point Race Skippers. The Marley 24 Hour passage race is held on the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria at this time each year starting at Marley Point and finishing at Paynesville. The race starts at 8.30 pm, Unfortunately this year's Marley is clashing with the Victorian Flying Fifteen Championships, my FF friends are going to the FF's instead of Marley. Marley is the World's longest inland lakes race so the Marley site says, it will take two days of hard sailing just to get to the start line in the Macgregor 26, ... racing with two multihull sailors Wayne Silik and Pat farnham on a monohull isn't the hard bit about reaching the start it is that the Locksport Pub is halfway between Paynesville and Lake Wellington Yacht Club ... possibly creating a hungover start.

The good things about the boat I'm racing on at Marley, is that Macgregor 26's have good motors and excellent glass chart tables for easily reading charts ... and just perfect for when we are playing cards. "There is nothing like being in a powerboat that someone stuck a sail on," said one of my less cultured Elliot 7 friends yesterday. "People water ski behind Macgregor 26's so they have to be fast!" said my FF friend Leigh Neilsen, "then they put the sails up." See what I have to deal with here in Canberra ... it isn't easy.

Mark I hope to see you and Try Flying! at Marley. Friday night at the Locksport pub. Be there or be square.

Warren.

[Mark Hastings]

I'm jealous Warren, but unfortunately I'm going to have to be "square" as I am working this weekend. Marley race sounds like a hoot, and i hope to be able to do the 24hr "heaven can wait" race up at lake Maq some time in October.

Have a beer or too for me :)

[Wild Wassa]

While walking the other night I found a once in a blue moon type of boat.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p2c96b22d858c3bb0ee798e4d43e9955c/ea38e854.jpg


'Blue Moon' ... a Farrier TT720.


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Under the moonlight she looked even better.


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The photos in the low light do not show the quality of the finish on this boat ... she was racing at Marlay.

On another nice note, the Iterstate Challenge Trophy at Marlay this year, was won by the Australian Capital Territory. A link to the Marlay thread ... http://www.woodenboatvb.com/vbulletin/upload/showthread.php?t=62746

Warren.

[rufustr]

We've been waiting patiently for progress photos Wassa.:mad:
There must be some of the ferret.:cool:

[Wild Wassa]

Rufus, thanks for your interest. I added Blue Moon to keep the thread warm.

Ian L is working on his boat at the moment, CPES'ing when the weather is permitting. I stopped working on the tri to restore the hulls and keels on two other boats a Sonata and a Farr, that were booked in for overhauls some time ago.

Now that the other two boats are almost done, this coming week I'm back onto the tri and I'll make up for lost time. I've been missing working on the tri. She is a very enjoyable and interesting boat to work on.

It would be a bit amiss not to show a trailer for a trailer-tri . This trailer is for 'Redshift' a Farrier 82R.


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'Taking Care of Business' a Farrier 25A, how do you like the fence on the rudder? I hope Ian L dreams of going fast, so fast that he might need a fence ...


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/pac164ceaf7597307b36ece285db15ade/ea33fd67.jpg



http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/pc6871ce08e16f074db0681467f16e859/ea54fbeb.jpg


... the little tri being restored, must be very proud of her grandkids ... or grandboats.

Warren.

[brian.cunningham]

'Taking Care of Business' a Farrier 25A, how do you like the fence on the rudder? I hope Ian L dreams of going fast, so fast that he might need a fence ...

The top plate I get.
Why the fence in the middle and not an endplate?

[rufustr]

I have Blue Moon dreams, although a different Blue Moon is involved.:cool:
http://www.woodenboatstore.com/images/400059.JPG

[Wild Wassa]

Brian, to stop cavitation when the water wants to move up the foil ... when moving at speed.

We are about to move onto a new stage with the boat ... it is called torture boarding. Before then, inept changes that the previous owner made to the boat, and the shocking lack of quality of the repairs that were done, are still being addressed.

We are a bit behind with the photos, these few pics will end the current stage and are dedicated to the previous owner.

Paint sick.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p055ba966362104ee0fb00eb0bc36e3b4/ea12c99e.jpg


Paint sick II.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p4947a00283eba5003005198bcb631146/ea12c9c4.jpg


Paint sick III or a masterful painting for the blind? ... (another marine empasto by Blind Freddy).


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p3924b2bb88e4a5e62eff74aa833d5bf0/ea12c9b5.jpg


The photo below is of Ian L's dedicated work. There is some paint removal and a bit of dressing of the timber still to go.


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The restoration of the boat will not be totally faithfull to her original paint job. There is good timber in the cabin that can be painted in a clear coat to enhance the overall look of the boat ... because when she is painted on the outside most will think that she is fiberglass.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/pff11e9b9bf3cf33b972eae149b095fe0/ea0d45df.jpg


The wings were left on the boat to keep the boat stable while working inside and on deck ... now it is time for them to flap off.


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Yesterday, many visitors visited the boat, it is beautiful weather here at the moment. Many tourists visit Canberra in Autumn, and the lake at this time of year is a magnet. Almost all of them said yesterday, "She is a very pretty boat." I can only agree and know that seeing this Farrier ... will be the highlight of their trip to Canberra.

Only the chefs from the Canberra Yacht Club said something different to me yesterday, other than she is a very pretty boat. They said, "We can smell the boat in the kitchen." "Don't you like the smell of bananas?" says I. "Yeah we do but what you are putting on her stinks." Well, I think CPES smells really nice and it's rich smell can only enhance kitchen smells ... don't you?

A small bit of rusty rod ... 5 fixed, this is the last one to go. These rods are just below the beam wells to add strength to the timber and to stop the bottom of the well from being crushed (I think).


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Warren.

[Wild Wassa]

There is one aspect of the conservation of the boat that I haven't mentioned so far ... that is Ian Farrier's drawn measurements on the wood, done in green biro and pencil, have all been retained. I'd like to think that we have not removed a single drawn mark or measurement. They are now conserved under CPES and normal epoxy for the next conservator of this boat to enjoy.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p668ba4273c21a9a5c26082e691aee5e3/e9ffe78b.jpg


The artefact called this boat, has a certain engaging charm that needs to be retained. Although some interesting aspects of the original construction will be under several layers of paint ... we lucky members of the WBF are privileged with this special information.

Warren.

[brian.cunningham]

There is one aspect of the conservation of the boat that I haven't mentioned so far ... that is Ian Farrier's drawn measurements on the wood, done in green biro and pencil, have all been retained. I'd like to think that we have not removed a single drawn mark or measurement. They are now conserved under CPES and normal epoxy for the next conservator of this boat to enjoy.

The artefact called this boat, has a certain engaging charm that needs to be retained. Although some interesting aspects of the original construction will be under several layers of paint ... we lucky members of the WBF are privileged with this special information.

Warren.

Work worthy of an archeology dig!

[Wild Wassa]

The work proceeds. We are doing steady more detailed work on the main hull at the moment.

After 33 years, the corrosion of the metal bits isn't too bad. The brakets that are part of the hinging system are showing slight degradation and the CPES is taken care of the delamination.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/pb5e531fb8f3409617d59adbfbe66a9f1/e9e8d513.jpg


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p0737e8b61fe9253f6aa4496d0ed19b45/e9e8d52b.jpg


While the weather remains fine and warm, the epoxy shapes keep getting smoother and more precise.

The fairing and shaping continues with a balloon aloft. Lots of dawn drifters are spying on us ... Paranoids on boats you are being watched.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/pecfa843705a6f4dbf124c61a8912baa9/e9e8d40b.jpg


Warren.

PS, URGENT STOP PRESS.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p452fe8599e670ba6a0a8df35e15e4ea0/e9dac5bb.jpg


Last remembered view by accident victim described to Federal Police by shocked onlookers after paranoid bateau boy dives under boat in an attempt to cover highly secretive winged centre board and knocks himself out on trailer chassis. Onlookers also stated to police that victim's frenzzied action appeared to be unnecessary as anti-balloon masts appeared to have done a good job in keeping spies at bay. Victim expected to make his usual slow recovery.

[Wild Wassa]

We have changed the aim of this project from restoring the boat ... to supporting archaeological research and protecting the world's cultural heritage. The dig continues.

A deep incision into the stratigraphy loosened a hand made washer.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p0d9b74a60bfbb012a8a1ea08a4cf9abf/e9a793c2.jpg


A millennium of grunge and disgraceful aging was stuck straight into phosphoric acid. After a few hours the acid was getting there, photo. The washer was than emersed in acid again until free of all rust.


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... and it was then given a coat or two of Valspar a direct to metal primer. This was the most exciting thing to happen this week. Changing to a new plate washer that backs the recovery eye, would have been easier, but not as much fun.

The boat is a long way from having a red hot finish ... but there is a dim glow of hope.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/pe6359ce427303b9bea0e9d600b5d524d/e9a79115.jpg


While the weather remains fine, progress continues. The boat is soon to be moved and worked on under cover. Progress is getting slower as the temperatures drop. Not so much for the temperature dependant chemicals ... but for two weather beaten workers.

Warren.

[Wild Wassa]

Even birds are taking an interest in the restoration of this boat. An Eastern Swamp Hen comes to check the progress each day ... and has smoko with me. I have coffee and it has my buscuit. I wonder how it knows when smoko is ... it must have some sort of biological time clock, tuned to opening buscuit packets.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p3e6684a04db9baa114ec839e0af866f1/e9992b9f.jpg


I said to the Eastern Swamp Hen yesterday, "I spy with my little eye somethings beginning with F ... but one is hiding under a boat cover." It just didn't get it.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p8f450fb66b0c882fe325be3d738609d4/e9992b77.jpg


Now for something interesting. The Skipper of the 720 above, yesterday introduced me to 'Rezinoff' from Fiberglass International. Very rarely am I impressed with new products ... but I was. As far as removing epoxy without leaving a hint of sticky residue, this stuff does actually work. Rezinoff is a cleaner well worth purchasing, if you don't use it already?


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/pd1e539636287da50c24df40a47038916/e9992bb7.jpg


Warren.

[JimD]

That 'Protectolene' means they're serious about protection! Great work on the boat, btw. Thanks for the update.

[MattL]

Just a load of great photos and comments. Keep up the fantastic work.....

[Rick Starr]

This is one of the forum's best threads.

I wanna get some of that protectolene stuff.

[Wild Wassa]

I'm pleased that the restoration, the photos and my musings are viewed ... by such excellent company. Thankyou for the kind words Jim, Matt and Rick and for your support of course.

It's a shame that Scott from Wooden Boat Magazine, this Forum's main man, still hasn't bought we Forum Members a teletransporter ... you too could be sanding this boat.

Back to the boat and a bit of keyhole surgery (... and a truck load of Silaflex).

I'm guessing that when the hole for the recovery eye was drilled through the laminated stem post, that the glue line that joined the two sheets of ply sent the drill bit off on a tangent.

Like so.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p4979b9c04c18c2ad70d80097d6a5b64b/e9971276.jpg



My colleague Zac the Ferret cleaned up the site prior to sheathing and redrilling a more accurate hole.



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Zac says the colour of the new Kevlar sheathing that he applied on the stem post reminds him of when we were gold prospecting on the Turon. I said, "Zac, we have come along way since those heady days of gay abandon and adventure and there is more gold in glueing this Kevlar than we ever found on the Turon."

"I think hole, so I am whole" said Zac. That was being overly Zen for Zac. "Well, I think tool, so you are a tool Zac and just keep your mind on the job Sportsman." I then told Zac to stop sniffing the fumes and to make sure that the new hole was drilled in the right spot and that the sheathing is tight and straight.

Zac then suggested putting in a sacrificial tube and back filling the old hole and then drilling out the new hole with progressively larger bits. So I tried it but only to humour him Skippers ... this was not at all accurate enough for my liking as the old glue line bent the plastic tube and off we went on the same tangent again.


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So we have became more chemically inclined in a Zen and Zac kind of way. When we need a new hole, we think stick in a bolt covered with PVA release into the hole and then back fill the old hole with compression strength epoxy and when the epoxy is hard knock out the smooth bolt ... then ship in a truck load of Sikaflex.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/pd156301b1d6770994f3154ea73fa1cd8/e997124b.jpg


The green mould release is on the smooth bolt above. The backing washer is painted in Valspar. The new recovery eye dwarfs the old eye ... and Zac is still a tool.

The dig continues.

A shot from this afternoon ... three Black Swans off Lennox Crossing.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/pcce0e9bd4e631e63b9d4dfcfabdc14ef/e997124f.jpg


Warren.

[brian.cunningham]

Here's hoping you get featured in WB

[Wild Wassa]

Thanks Brian too kind, but we are featuring here. That's more than adequate for a worker.

The stem post and bow are finished. The kevlar is also on the repaired side of the post.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/pe267ff2a7fe48e6b2509183cd7bbf1d5/e97db47a.jpg


Painting the bow had to wait. Installing the recovery eye before painting had to be a priorety, the boat might be moving.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p1ce0cd0c7eb890bc8f6d57a47dc57ab8/e97db47e.jpg


The fairing has started ... I'm just plonking the epoxy with macros on. Nothing has been sanded fair yet except for the gunnels. They have been well faired.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/paacf2af8b2db079537ce262447ae3ffc/e97db485.jpg


No shortage of Fill-It, in the photo below. The hull here is still to be glassed. I want a nice smooth surface to glass.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/pa68519d49a675085b3fd57e72082b121/e97db497.jpg


The weather remains exceptional ... so the dig continues.

A photo from early this evening, 'Racing ducks.'


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I'm going to South Australia tomorrow to race with Neil Garvey on his International Flying Fifteen called "Ziff'. The boat is awesomely good for a Classic. We have trained hard this week getting the hang of the dental floss that controls the spinnaker and we have tuned the boat to good efficiency. All of the push and pull bits are as smooth as on Ziff. She is a pleasure to crew. Over the last week we have put on half a knot in light wind, after calibrating the systems to a GPS. The time spent tuning the kite to wind running slightly forward of the beam has been well worth the trouble. The kite is a beauty it is only just legal, as it isn't symmetrical. Which tends to be a trend here. If we get 4 drifters we will go close to doing well, if we get good sea breeze we will do well, ... if we get disturbed flukey rubbish we will kick arse. I'm told that we are the only inland sailors at the titles. I just love beating coastal sailors.

The boat is all packed up ready for the trip and doing a few thousand clicks hauling the boat to the South Australian south east coast and back, should make for an excellent drive.

Ziff in highway mode this evening, after I watched some Pacific Black ducks racing. Some days the ducks go faster than us. Let's see if the Croweaters can.


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Putting a clamp on the keel isn't how Uffa Fox thought about transporting the Flying Fifteen. He took the keel off and put it in his boot and car topped the boat. Silly old d'Uffa. In those days the boats were raced three up, now they are only sailed by two.


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C'ya.

Warren.

[Wild Wassa]

We are back, and we are smiling. Clive Arnold, Skipper of 'Iffy' the current Australian Classic Flying Fiftreen champion is not so happy. In south Australia he has a reputation of not being beaten.

The look on Clive's face when the overall results were read was sad(dish). Things must change though, that's why we race, ... and we race hard and we race not to just have fun. I find the fun is in the results.

Today is another Farrier work day, so it's back to the coal face again ... but with much added enthusiasm. After hauling the boat to SA and back, nothing much has changed.

Warren.

[Wild Wassa]

I've stopped posting on the little Farrier, sadly. An article is being written about the boat by her owner, so further postings here are not appropriate.

Yesterday I hoisted another Farrier. A 680 called Tekoa. Tekoa is getting a makeover of the paint on her hulls, being done by her crew ... I just stand around giving advice. The biggest deal so far was being granted a permit to use water on Tekoa .. which required many phone calls chasing up the Department of Water Conservation. We need more water than is found in a lake to float the boat here ... I need a girl Friday just to keep chasing up the water permits.

Standing under Tekoa last night felt good. It felt like a full-on religious experience ... if I knew what any type of religious experience might feel like. If one feels like what it feels like standing under any Farrier, it feels good. Tekoa is called Tekoa because her owner/builder's surname is Amos. In the book of Amos, in the Bible her owner told me it says, "The men from Tekoa." All Tekoa needed last night was an angel to be standing in the pulpit ... and I could have converted from my sinful ways. I said could have not would have!


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Photobucket allows bigger photos than Image Station ... wow.

Warren.

[boatbear]

Warren, I know the bloke who owns the blue one you photographed at Raymond Island last year. I'm trying to encourage him to send his rebuild pics so I can post them. He copes pretty well with my comments about 'trainer hulls'. They are quite sensational boats.
Charlie

[Wild Wassa]

Charlie don't ask for the Blue Moon rebuild photos from the Skipper, go straight for his jugular. Charlie get a ride.

Ask the Skipper if you can crew for him in the Marlay. Offer to be the bowperson and the kite jockey, the helm, the main sheet hand, the navigator, the goff'a and steward and spotter. Tell him you don't sleep ever when you race and the swell on the seaward side of Raymond Island is just perfect surfing stuff under kite, it is what you prefer ... I think that you will not mention training hulls ever again, if you get onto that boat.

The best rides that I've ever had have been on tris. They are totally way cool boats. The boat speed on a shy reach under kite will blow you away ... possibly in more ways than one.

I pick up my new off shore gear tomorrow ... it will help to stay warm at sunrise in the Marlay when the temperature inversion puts a fix to the mild night spent coming through the McLennen Straits and the winds off Bass Strait let you know you are human.

If you are short of a ride let me know ... it was lack of crew that stopped a few of my friends racing last Marlay. I'm going down a week early to do a bit of sailing out of Metung.

The next Marlay is the 40th running of the race. There will be a few boats there for the 40th running ... be there or be square Charlie.

Warren.

[Mark Hastings]

Hi Warren

I'm doing my upmost to have Try Flying down in '08 also. I am planning on being down there the wek before for a cruise (just me and the better half) however she does'nt like racing much and says I'm crazy to want to sail at night so there may be a crew spot vacant on my boat too.

You guys should come and do the Heaven can wait 24hr race on lake Macquarie in October if you have the taste for night sailing...its awesome.

Cheers

Mark