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Lots of in-the-shed varnishing of small bits and pieces today, but my lord if Victoria doesn't pick a great time in my planning schedule to dump record rain for a week and a half straight. Ah well,...

Pretty much. It's a fairly typical outer suburb now and the suburbs are creeping into places like montmorency, eltham and watsonia too. I have no reference for what it was once like but old...

I work in Camberwell, so I know what you mean! :rolleyes:. I'm in Heidelberg.

She's from scratch.

I don't have many of the early pictures, but..

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Just so much neater, Y'know?

Yep, I've picked up an old Galv steel board from a derelict boat at the 8mm dimension. I still need to clean it up and re-paint but it's ready when I am.

What can I say - I'm Gen Y. I want everything convenient and handed to me :P

I'll show you my guilty sin, too. I wanted end-sheeting, with a traveller. That usually means a rope bridle on this boat as there's a tiller over the aft deck, but I hate rope bridles.
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As a thank-you, have a build pic.

:)

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Cheers! West looks easy to navigate too - I was trying to struggle my way through the whitworths website.. Painful.

I'm about to start the fit-out of my long-running Hartley build and I dislike that in Melbs I'm pretty limited in sailboat chandlery places. I'm after recommendations for online sellers with a...

Might it be a mini tug or some such nonsense?

I've a question to ask the esteemed panel too, but it's much easier to answer - if you'd be willing?

I agree with everything you just said.

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The rudder is like so.

I was mostly asking whether, in the opinion of the fairly knowledgeable crew we...

Been through a few older threads to get a view as to methods (which is fine) but had a specific question about the rudder blade I'm thinking of building.

The particulars

- 16 foot, beamy,...

And nice as it is, The Hartley TS16 breaks the bank at a hefty 7'2" beam.

I'll let you know if I'm headed down that way! I've got a road-trailer for the Heron, so it's fairly portable. It'd be nice to have some company for a sail perhaps, though!

Port Phillip mostly, though I really want to spend some time in Westernport around Phillip Island and so on.

PP is ok, but when it wobbles around on you and suddenly you have a bumpy 20kt...

A house framer probably owned her. Silicon and a nail-gun solve all the problems in the world.

Otherwise, deck down she's probably 40-odd years old and bulletproof, so I'm lucky there. It was...

I'll snap a few tomorrow if you'd like - I'm doing a rebuild of #6193 (when I'm not pretending to build a Hartley ts16). Replacing the deck, stripped it back to wood and re-painted. It was time the...

Far too warm for my liking. I'm meant to be out in the hot tin shed putting my little Heron's seat timbers back in, but I just can't make myself go in there. 9pm, and it's still an oven.

I'm from the Wizbang school of thought. I use West's 403 for pretty much everything - glueing, filling, filleting. I don't fair with it, but that's about all.

Then swish! I just won't use some of the surian cedar - a hearty sneeze dents it. :P

Cheers for the advice! I'll dig through my stash.

I chose the Jarrah as I can kinda foresee myself spending a lot of time stepping on the capping, or using it as a foot-brace, or etc. I know it's heavy as sin, but I wanted to make sure it was...

I just figure that if I don't need to make it removable, I'll run the capping full length with a slot cut into it (as per the usual idea).

The one I started I have made the section of the cap...

Kauri is lovely though. Agreed about region - Apparently Radiata is also called Monterey pine in its native Californian range.

anyone want a jarrah doorstop while I remake my centre-case cap then? Hah.

I've seen that picture before, on the Hartley-ts site. I'm totally stealing it. Cheers ;)

I've not really figured out exactly where I'll anchor the control line for the CB yet. I'm thinking aft...

Today I glued the hatch slide rails and the front sections of the drop board guides in place.

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If your Radiata pine is the same as the Radiata pine in Australia (probable) it kinda looks idly at moisture from afar, then turns into a mushroom, then decomposes. The stuff has earned the trade...

I thought I'd drop my hat in here for a moment to say hi, from a Melbournite. I'm building that Hartley over in Build/Repair, and even though it's nowhere near as large and pretty as some of the...

Continued working on bunging old screws - along the gunwale caps now. After this I'm putting on a thinner belting, and a run of toe-rails along the deck edge. I spent the morning scarphing and...

It's getting towards that time of things - Do the Aussies out there have preferences in paint manufacturer and type? The hull is Norglass Northane 2-pack LPU. It was alright, but a pain in the rear...

And here's a bunch of images with absolutely no description. it's late, and my fingers are sleepy.

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My project for today was the cabin hatch slides. They're from 1 1/2 PNG Rosewood, and I cut the dado groove on the tablesaw set shallow. Drew in a nice-looking curve at the appropriate length, and...

Just came back from a few days holiday down in Sorrento, Portsea, Redhill and Flinders (for those in Victoria these places make sense, otherwise, ignore), and decided upon returning that the shed...

So essentially we're now more focussed on who may or may not be potentially earning roundabout funds from a possible clandestine PR exercise about the variable cost of a customisable, recreational...

Lord, I'd build one. If it came in plan-form.

Well that's just it, neither can I! Hah. I sail from time to time on a plastic Noelex 25 which has coamings that are probably around the same height as these (granted it's a bigger boat, and the...

Yeah, You do need to hike a TS16 in higher winds.

I purposely made the curve from the high coaming come down relatively fast so I and crew should still be able to hike out. The aft 2/3 of the...

I agree Mitz. I think regrets are a sign that someone looked back at the options, and saw the different paths we might have taken. Reflectivity in a person isn't really a bad thing, it's why we're...

I think it looks nicer, and being able to choose is why I built one!

I tossed up the options for a loooooooooooooooong time and wound up with this as it looks a little more slippery. The...

I'm hoping before the end of Term 4 (I'm a high-school art/woodwork teacher). It's pretty hard to get it done around the planning and working week that goes into running my classes so the school...

...and Continued.

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So, Carrying on.

I've glued down the aft deck, cut the motor well properly, laminated the aft traveller beam and glued the whole lot in. Some photographs.
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It will harden, give it time. Slow hardener can be pretty frustratingly sloooow in cool weather.

I've got a standard length outboard, and will have it on a folding bracket. Exactly. The throttle pivots as well, so will be possible to have it under/over the traveller bar depending on stand/sit...

This weekend's job is mocking out and finishing up my transom-mounted traveller beam. I'm going to laminate a beam to hold one of the low-profile type traveller tracks from Ronstan/Harken, and I...

I'm still able, I've got a good set of hole-saws and a little sabre saw good for doing shallow cuts in ply. I just thought it might not be a good idea as it can turn the coaming into a rot-box, as...

So here's the view where we are.

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Here's my completely-overkill winches, and the partially completed sliding hatch. Needs a finish...