Antipodean Boats Connection

[WX]

One of the things he recommended doing was to tin the wire before soldering it. He does a lot of automotive wiring hence the soldering skills.

[Phil Y]

Who'd a thought that a soldering geek would sell recycled timber as well. great find

[Phil Y]

Heads up, Foreign Correspondent on obesity.

You can see it in action here. The villagers and the manual workers are lean and fit. When people move "up" into supervisory and management roles, or become succesful business men, or start raking in land rent and royalties, they keep eating a heavy diet, become obese and die young of heart failure or diabetes.

[WX]

Who'd a thought that a soldering geek would sell recycled timber as well. great find

If only that were true I would have had less running around to do?
Today I'm buying a nice new 12mm drill bit for all the bolts holes I now need to drill for the cradle.

[skuthorp]

Natural, or rather personal selection at work Phil?

[Phil Y]

Suicide by dining.

[PeterSibley]

You can see it in action here. The villagers and the manual workers are lean and fit. When people move "up" into supervisory and management roles, or become succesful business men, or start raking in land rent and royalties, they keep eating a heavy diet, become obese and die young of heart failure or diabetes.

That sounds like India, wealth equals obesity.

[skuthorp]

Lovely day for a drive, Bermagui tonight, right opposite the fleet of game boats but amongst the plastic a couple of woodies. A big wooden trawler came in on dusk and I spoke to a bloke on what looked like an ex shark boat. Flooded gum with a Gardner , live aboard too. Built in Ballina. I hope to get a pic or two tomorrow before leaving. It'll be a long day if we try for home and the weather looks like going downhill.

[skuthorp]

And for those not on the mailing list, the latest ENewsletter from Hobart.
http://www.australianwoodenboatfesti...0corrected.pdf

[Larks]

One for Duncanising: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/FIREWOOD-...#ht_500wt_1285

[Larks]

And one worth saving:http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/alban...ger/1001536120

[RFNK]

The 70s? I don't think there was a wooden surfboard anywhere near the surf anywhere in the 70s!

Rick

[RFNK]

Good one Greg! I like the lugger but ...........

Rick

[Duncan Gibbs]

One for Duncanising: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/FIREWOOD-...#ht_500wt_1285

Not even worth my time. And anyway, I've already got one like it that needs a fair amount of work, but actually has a rig and a sail. It's closer to a Sabot than that thing as well.

And I'd be killed!

[Phil Y]

And one worth saving:http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/alban...ger/1001536120

Nice little project to keep you busy Greg

[skuthorp]

And one worth saving:http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/alban...ger/1001536120

Impressive isn't she, there's been some discussion re 'Intombi' and her name from Dingo on the forum previously.

Looking at the weather map this morning Anne asked, do we really want to go home yet?

[purri]

^ Extreme commitment required! Not for those of faint heart nor shallow wallet. Probably iron fastened though that may be an advantage.

[GaryK]

Looking at that pearl lugger, I wondered which is cheaper/less time: fixing that one or building a 35' boat from scratch? Lucky I chose the latter..

The Gaff rig would look huge and scary on that thing. I'd turn it into a schooner & slap junk sails on it.

[Phil Y]

She looks bigger than 52' doesn't she? Scary really, my Balia is 50'. But not 100 years old and not iron fastened. Doesn't look anywhere near as scary. Junk rig? That would be sacrilege.

[PeterSibley]

I have 4 temporary moulds up, levelled and squared, the 2 x 5m x 120 x 15 mm keel laminations ripped out of an old bit of demo yard oregon , planed 2 sides and ready to glue up.The epoxy has arrived .

A good day.

[RFNK]

Time for some photos Mr S!

Rick

[PeterSibley]

I'll take a few over the weekend, it's actually possible to see a boatish shape !

[skuthorp]

Home, long day but I enjoyed the drive. I like distance driving. Stopped for lunch at a little creek that runs into the sea, a very rough track I speculated about 2 years ago. Nice, we'll be back there.

That lugger is a big beast, you'd need a crew and she wouldn't be easy. But I hope someone takes her on. That flooded gum live aboard at Bermagui was out fishing this morning so no pic. He's a retired widower evidently pleasing himself.

[PeterSibley]

The lugger is "no longer available".... I hope someone rich and enthusiastic bought her. A magnificent lump for man, woman and 3 strong teenagers .

[WX]

She looks bigger than 52' doesn't she? Scary really, my Balia is 50'. But not 100 years old and not iron fastened. Doesn't look anywhere near as scary. Junk rig? That would be sacrilege.

She would be easier to handle either solo or small crew though.

[PeterSibley]

Beautiful!

[GaryK]

The lugger is "no longer available".... I hope someone rich and enthusiastic bought her. A magnificent lump for man, woman and 3 strong teenagers .

Well I'm bummed.

After my last post my minister of finance suggested that would be a good excuse to head to Albany for the weekend, and have a squizz at that boat. Then I read your post

[Duncan Gibbs]

Greg?.... What've you done?...

[WX]

New topsail schooner for Franklin planned.
http://www.afloat.com.au/afloat-maga...n#.UBHCTTR9Ejs

[PatrickXavier]

[WX]

Was that taken at Denmark in West Oz?

[PeterSibley]

Not Jesus as we know him!

[Phil Y]

Great photo though. Went to a funeral for one of our staff last night. The preacher had a bit about whether God was a white man or a black man. No question about it though, definetely a man apparently.

[Phil Y]

New topsail schooner for Franklin planned.
http://www.afloat.com.au/afloat-maga...n#.UBHCTTR9Ejs

The John and Ruth Young mentioned there is my Dad and Mum. Pretty much unstoppable.

[PatrickXavier]

Was that taken at Denmark in West Oz?

Pindimar NSW, by Kieren Haddow

[Duncan Gibbs]

Nice picture Patrick! BTW, all those shots of your restoration of Rogue seem to have disappeared. I went back to my "Question for the Kiwis" thread and I see only little blue boxes with question marks?

Should send that shot to the preacher Phil: Set him straight about what God is.

[WX]

The John and Ruth Young mentioned there is my Dad and Mum. Pretty much unstoppable.

It would seem so.

[RFNK]

Lots of fun here today. We brought this thing up from Sydney yesterday and got it off the trailer this morning - in our next door neighbour's driveway. It weighs 1.3 tonnes.



We took a panel out of the fence and rolled it on planks and rollers to the shed. By then we had a few helpers!





Next we rolled it into the shed.






Now all I have to do is work out what to do with the bloody thing!

Rick

[PeterSibley]

That's an impressive lump Rick and it looks in very good condition ! In our local library there is a Fine Woodworking DVD with a section in it on how to use an overhead router, unfortunately I can't remember which one ! Perhaps your library has a collection?

[purri]

Nice bit o' kit. Now to set it up on a good thick slab with aligned chemset bolts, align the pulleys and set the guides to a poofteenth of SFA. (apols to David Lockwood)

[skuthorp]

Very impressive! All those levers and wheels. Last thing I saw like that was in The Wizard of Aus................ er.Oz.

[m2c1Iw]

Very impressive I think it needs a thread of it's own, installation test run and instruction for the viewers. I also think I need one but don't know why.

[Larks]

Are you trying to compensate for something there Rick? That's quite a machine!!!

[WX]

What does it not do Rick?
Cause it looks like it's meant to do a lot of things.
Did the book arrive okay?

[skuthorp]

He's just trying to fire up our sense of competition. I should have kept the Milling machine, twice as big and just as green.

[GaryK]

That is a very fine, large, green.. machine.
I'd like one in my "workshop" too. Dont know what it does, but I'd still want one.

[PeterSibley]

A couple of pages Rick might find useful,http://www.wadkin.com/wadkin-library.../-/7/-/Routers

and this forum has proven very helpful to me setting up my Wadkin tablesaw.http://www.woodworkuk.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=977

[Larks]

Did it come with any decent bits Rick?

[Phil Y]

I think its silly. But quite nice

[WX]

I have a slight hangover this morning but I don't think it will get in the way of me doing almost nothing on the boat today.