A folkboat found me

[MattofOsho]

http://www.gizmag.com/quadrofoil-ele...ercraft/22560/

It seems yout tubercules (?sp) are a catching on !!!

[Gezzunder]

Mate, those lazyjacks!!! Have a look at this set up, for something to fiddle with..

Pull on the black to lower the jacks, or on the brown to raise them.

[floatingkiwi]

http://www.gizmag.com/quadrofoil-ele...ercraft/22560/

It seems yout tubercules (?sp) are a catching on !!!

Yes Sir. They sure are. That machine is looking really cool. Looks almost alive with its resemblance to a cross breeding of a double ended whale and some giant water beetle. I like it. And the TUBERCLES on the fins? ...Well...
They reckon there is more drag in the air above than what is in the water. Now I wonder how that makes them feel?
WHooohooooww.

[mgiudici]

ANNIE in the water, at Laglio, Lake of Como, Italy

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...3&l=c25544880a

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...3&l=90894dfaeb

thanks to Cantiere Ernesto Riva http://www.barcheriva.it/

I like a lot

marco from Italy

[floatingkiwi]

Mate, those lazyjacks!!! Have a look at this set up, for something to fiddle with..

Pull on the black to lower the jacks, or on the brown to raise them.

Mate, I based mine from memory on this exact drawing. It works the same as soon as I reinstall a black line.
How about that eh?

[floatingkiwi]

I actually climbed right up to the gantry just visible here and put a pull through line over the top rail, brought it underneath the front of the rail and up into the gantry area above, clipped into it and dropped through the hole, whooohayyy, that was freaky, then abseiled down onto the mast to sort out a few lines before hittin it.

[RFNK]

If that Lemonhead doesn't toss you a hat for this latest effort then I'll declare the LPBC a JOKE!

Love it Kerry!

Rick

[62816inBerlin]

ANNIE in the water, at Laglio, Lake of Como, Italy

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...3&l=c25544880a

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...3&l=90894dfaeb

thanks to Cantiere Ernesto Riva http://www.barcheriva.it/

I like a lot

marco from Italy

Bella !
Hope she gives you a lot of enjoyment.

Gernot H.

P.S. I second RFNK's comment wholeheartedly ... a cap for Kerry !

[floatingkiwi]

ANNIE in the water, at Laglio, Lake of Como, Italy

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...3&l=c25544880a

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...3&l=90894dfaeb

thanks to Cantiere Ernesto Riva http://www.barcheriva.it/

I like a lot

marco from Italy

Fantastic Marco. What a great moment and a remarkable achievement getting another folkboat into the element it belongs to.Well done mate. And thank you for posting your progress here. I reckon that is great too.

[floatingkiwi]

If that Lemonhead doesn't toss you a hat for this latest effort then I'll declare the LPBC a JOKE!

Love it Kerry!

Rick

I don't recall entering any competition where a cap was on the hook. However, I appreciate the suggestion, whatever is behind it. What is behind it Rick? Come on. What are you and Tremblin' Fans up to now?

[floatingkiwi]

This is, believe it or not, the very whale that inspired the tubercled bow and forefoot of the folkboat Further.

[RFNK]

Congratulations Marco - she's beautiful!!!!!

Rick

[floatingkiwi]

[floatingkiwi]

There is a lot of truth in a lot of the hype goin around the internet about 1% of the pop gaining 99% of the wealth, but then, if you have food in your stomach and a roof over your head tonight, you are part of something like 10 or 15% of the worlds pop. Isn't that something? I have a mate down the river here who actually believes that the vapour trails behind planes, caused by the wings agitating the air with just the right moisture content and pressure to be clouds but not quite, is the result of a sinister plan to depopulate the Earth by a corrupt and inhuman governing occult. I reckon it would be easier to just shoot everyone without endangering those to be spared. Come on bro. I'm with ya on a lot of issues but ya just aint gonna convince me of that.



Besides, the thing is just way too high to be that effective or accurate for any particular target on the ground. Isn't it?



Below

Brock De Lappes boat. Where I got some exp and a few good ideas from. Thanks Brock. Hope ya did ok the other week when ya needed crew.

[mgiudici]

hi
we had a nice day of sailing with "Annie" on the Lake of Como, very nice boat indeed :-)
regarding the engine 4 hp are enough, the support of the engine is no so good, the position of the engine when out of the water is dangerous because the impeller is higher than the head of the engine and the oil in the lower part can move to the upper part, i have to find a solution, any suggestion?
best regards
marco from Italy

[floatingkiwi]

hi
we had a nice day of sailing with "Annie" on the Lake of Como, very nice boat indeed :-)
regarding the engine 4 hp are enough, the support of the engine is no so good, the position of the engine when out of the water is dangerous because the impeller is higher than the head of the engine and the oil in the lower part can move to the upper part, i have to find a solution, any suggestion?
best regards
marco from Italy

Show us a well defined photograph of this particular problem Marco.

[floatingkiwi]

If that Lemonhead doesn't toss you a hat for this latest effort then I'll declare the LPBC a JOKE!

Love it Kerry!

Rick

Well?

[P.L.Lenihan]

Well? Would ya like a cap or not Kerry.True, there is no contest at present but you did have a go in the past and by golly now it appears you've got CLRick,with Gernot seconding, proposing a cap, for you mast or rather hair raising mast venture.Very generous of them, I think.


Cheers!


Peter

[floatingkiwi]

You are asking me as though it is not the first time you have asked me if I want a cap.
I didn't use a bridge to insert my mast in order to capture the interest and generosity of anyone giving out prizes for such things. I did it because it was all I had.
And whatever it is between you and Rick, I don't think you ought to be handing out caps, (that I reckon are worth more), to resolve it.
Besides, I couldn't and wouldn't accept a prize of any description, for anything other than entering and winning the apppropriate event through which it was originally intended, in this case by the ten thumbed and alcoholically inclined individual that talks to a doll and stands before and facing you when you look at a mirror.
But thank you all the same for your offer.

[RFNK]

Hey come on Kerry! Here we are generously suggesting that LH sends you a cap and there he is generously offering said cap and now you don't want it? Be fairer to your head young man - for all his faults, that Lemonhead has a fine collection of hats to distribute and a generous spirit to boot! You could be more gracious!

Rick

[Larks]

Hey come on Kerry! Here we are generously suggesting that LH sends you a cap and there he is generously offering said cap and now you don't want it? Be fairer to your head young man - for all his faults, that Lemonhead has a fine collection of hats to distribute and a generous spirit to boot! You could be more gracious!

Rick

I don't think he's really meaning to sound disingenuous Rick (sorry if I'm talking out of line on your behalf and misinterpreting you Kerry), I think it's more that he'd prefer to win said cap in fair and open rivalry against well matched and competitive opponents so that he can wear it in honour of what he understands to be its original gallant intent rather than forever feel a fraud to generosity, knowing full well the powers and responsibilities that ownership of said cap bestows.

I gather that little does he know that these caps have indeed been awarded for past valiant, heroic and intrepid undertakings - indeed including at least one other mast handling event of similarly impressive proportions.

[RFNK]

I have to agree with you Greg! One only has to look at the wealth of meritorious endeavour that recipients of caps have achieved to date to easily glean the truth in your point. Despite his many, many faults, the Lemonhead has an incisive ability to target only those individuals who have ventured well beyond the mediocre in boat-related activities for granting of the honoured cap. Kerry should understand that not a single recipient of the cap to date has actually sought receipt of this great honour. Possibly to our shame, in that we have assumed that the LH might not have actually noticed the very noteworthy launch of Further or Kerry's various abseiling cum mast repair activities on a busy city bridge, a couple of us have directly recommended Kerry for this award. There is not a soul who could think that Kerry considered, let alone sought, this honour in either engaging or reporting his activities. This is why I say Kerry should accept this rare honour graciously for it is truly deserved and, despite the very, very, very many faults of the cap giver, offered sincerely. I apologise for my use of the term generous as in thinking about it further, through Greg's prompting, it is not the appropriate adjective at all.

And Kerry, it is not apparently a competition and no one has placed you in or presumed you to be in any competition. Rather it is a deserved response from an unabashed hat grabber to outstanding endeavour. I trust you will concede the points I have endeavoured to make, if clumsily, and accept the @&$)()$&@ hat!

Rick

[mgiudici]

hi

in the pic you can see the engine support in white, when i lift up the engine, Yamaha 4 hp 4 stroke, the position of the engine is wrong and dangerous because the impeller is higher than the head of the engine


https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...3&l=c25544880a

to lift up the engine is also very very difficult also with a lot of grease on the "rail" of the support, i think this support was quite good for the old light 2 stroke engines with no problem of lubricating oil in the engine carter

i am looking aroud to find something working better and looking "Folkboat", but it is not so easy

regarding the power of the engine i am very happy to have got the 4 hp because is more than enough

ciao from Italy


marco & Annie

[floatingkiwi]

I don't think he's really meaning to sound disingenuous Rick (sorry if I'm talking out of line on your behalf and misinterpreting you Kerry), I think it's more that he'd prefer to win said cap in fair and open rivalry against well matched and competitive opponents so that he can wear it in honour of what he understands to be its original gallant intent rather than forever feel a fraud to generosity, knowing full well the powers and responsibilities that ownership of said cap bestows.

I gather that little does he know that these caps have indeed been awarded for past valiant, heroic and intrepid undertakings - indeed including at least one other mast handling event of similarly impressive proportions.

Bloody hell Greg, you're startin to sound like me. Both you and Rick.
Ahh, yeah, I agree with your representation here. I thought that was what I had said already. The word disingenuous lives in another part of the world from me. However one might find something of its character in LeaningSands last comment. It has the ring of sarcasm throughout it. The reason for my inability to get too excited about it. Anyway.
Perhaps I too am mistaken and sincerity is staring me in the face. I will have to wait and see what he has to say about it.
BTW Greg, what exactly are these powers and responsibilities that ownership of one of these caps bestow, that you speak of ? Does that make sense. What time is it?

[Larks]

Bloody hell Greg, you're startin to sound like me. Both you and Rick.
Ahh, yeah, I agree with your representation here. I thought that was what I had said already. The word disingenuous lives in another part of the world from me. However one might find something of its character in LeaningSands last comment. It has the ring of sarcasm throughout it. The reason for my inability to get too excited about it. Anyway.
Perhaps I too am mistaken and sincerity is staring me in the face. I will have to wait and see what he has to say about it.
BTW Greg, what exactly are these powers and responsibilities that ownership of one of these caps bestow, that you speak of ? Does that make sense. What time is it?

I speak of the powers that must not be spoken of............actually that's bullshyte, just go and have a bit of a look through "the continuing adventures of the laughing polar bear cap" thread.

[floatingkiwi]

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum..

[floatingkiwi]

hi

in the pic you can see the engine support in white, when i lift up the engine, Yamaha 4 hp 4 stroke, the position of the engine is wrong and dangerous because the impeller is higher than the head of the engine


https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...3&l=c25544880a

to lift up the engine is also very very difficult also with a lot of grease on the "rail" of the support, i think this support was quite good for the old light 2 stroke engines with no problem of lubricating oil in the engine carter

i am looking aroud to find something working better and looking "Folkboat", but it is not so easy

regarding the power of the engine i am very happy to have got the 4 hp because is more than enough

ciao from Italy


marco & Annie

I'm not sure I fully understand the problem you are faced with here Marco.
Is it because the oil in the reservoir will leak out into areas it should not?

Another thing. You mentoned the impeller being higher than the engine. If the emgine isn't running when you lift t up, (which I hope it isn't), what would it matter.

[62816inBerlin]

Hello Kerry, Duncan, Marco et. al.
Not wishing to divert this thread too far, but ...
I've located a slide show with some pictures of Dragons, Folkeboote and many others to drool over. Much better than our pictures. See
http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthre...43#post3465243
The photographer must have been a pro.
Gernot H.

[floatingkiwi]

Hello Kerry, Duncan, Marco et. al.
Not wishing to divert this thread too far, but ...
I've located a slide show with some pictures of Dragons, Folkeboote and many others to drool over. Much better than our pictures. See
http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthre...43#post3465243
The photographer must have been a pro.
Gernot H.

Divert from the thread? Really? You mentioned that once before aswell. Do you really think I or anyone would be upset if you posted a picture of a yodling lass in a green valley with the Matterhorn in all its pyramid shaped glory beckoning in a backdrop of stunning beauty whilst a few merry oddly dressed drunk mountain men dudes with red shiny faces galloped gleefully about the glen as whistling birds filled the air with a song of... hang on, what was your thread about?...
Oh, boats. Yes, well, I see now, you really are distracting a bit there aren't you...With boats?... I mean, lets stick to the theme here shall we now.
Lets see. If you stuck with my material you could have input ranging from several photos of some odd looking, (to me), wildlife I discovered on the Island of Maui last summer to the right hander peeling in an epic way off the point at Honolua Bay with a few arguements with weirdos and a book worth of oddball inventions and ideas and add to that many pieces of rather shabbily put together sentences of what is supposed to be the English language, by some trying to speak it as well as write it and not doing too bad a job but still managing to raise pulses abroad.
Gernot. You are most welcome to post whatever you like mate. Thread drift went away with the last strike slip fault.

I just got in from a blustery blow down the river in the folkboat and it was a very pleasant time watching these videos after that. I like those Dragons. Cool lookin boats.
Thanks Gernot.

[RFNK]

Gernot's obviously aware of what a sensitive bird the kiwi is ...

Rick

[floatingkiwi]

Hey where did that bowshed wrecker get to now?

[RFNK]

That's a good question!

Rick

[floatingkiwi]

I have been having great difficulty getting this vid here. The best I can do till I film another one or go back to scratch. Hit the link, go full screen and turn up the volume.


http://fljugen.shutterfly.com/3507

Its basically the same one I posted a while ago but with some music.

[floatingkiwi]

Well I think I am paying the price for not buying expensive bottom paint or does it all work like it is fertilizer for weed and barnacles and whatever else feels like using the wood on the hull of Further as the place to live life to its fullest.
I noticed she wasn't sliding through the water too well and when I went to tack, found she would not make it right through and stalled and was blown backwards into the mud of the bank I had just steered away from.
Lets see. What was it? RUSTOLEUM make a bottom paint. If you use it, be preared for bearded growth a foot long and complete barnacle encrustation, within 6 months of entering the water.

[RFNK]

Whatever you use, make sure you put on two thick coats - don't skimp! Clinker hulls do pick up a lot more growth than other hulls - it's their downside!

Rick

[floatingkiwi]

As I recall, I put at least 5 coats of that Rustoleum Rubbish on the wood. Not much good at all eh?
The epoxy, as anticipated, around the forefoot where I was trying to make it look pretty, I dunno why, it was gonna be submerged,has come away from the cutwater and the forefoot itself. No problem, what is behind it is sound and sealed. I kinda knew it would do that.
She still ships water in the amount of, should there be no pump, she would be on the bottom in say 3 days It is a couple of buttblocks and some nails that go through the planks and frames, in a couple of places, where I used the same size nail and not an oversize one.
I'll get her over some dry sandy creekbed shortly and clean the rest of the hull and paint it with some paint I made. It will work. I shall chase the leaks down with the wet/dry vac and ascertain the spots to fix through to the outside and force slick seam into the areas first. That will really dry the bilges out a bit.
Minor stuff. Everything else is as good as it needs to be to raise some canvas and hit it anytime.
It really is quite neat having a folkboat in the water, ready to sail, en route to home.
I gotta get some more video.
Good to see ya Rick.

[floatingkiwi]

Poor old thread is sitting here all alone with not much happening right now.
I am busy restoring another sailboat where it sits on her mooring in one of the local marinas. There was a wooden structure that spanned the rear of the very high and large windowed cabin of a motor sailer and water was allowed to sit behind where it connected to the sides and rot found its way almost to the clamp. She is a time consuming job but I am making good progress to a few new curved lines and new deck sections and, well, I shall post some pics in case anybody might be interested. It is great to be working doing something I enjoy and seem to be pretty good at.
Go and round up some pics I suppose.

[Larks]

Poor old thread is sitting here all alone with not much happening right now.
I am busy restoring another sailboat where it sits on her mooring in one of the local marinas. There was a wooden structure that spanned the rear of the very high and large windowed cabin of a motor sailer and water was allowed to sit behind where it connected to the sides and rot found its way almost to the clamp. She is a time consuming job but I am making good progress to a few new curved lines and new deck sections and, well, I shall post some pics in case anybody might be interested. It is great to be working doing something I enjoy and seem to be pretty good at.
Go and round up some pics I suppose.

Good idea, it'll be nice to see this thread popping up in my "subscribed threads" page again....or will you do a new thread? Sounds like an interesting project.

[RFNK]

Hi Kerry, and yes, we'd like to see the photos!

Rick

[floatingkiwi]

Alriiight. The lads. Yeah I thought I would just keep this thread goin seeing that it has been so kind to me. Be a shame to come this far with it and just end it like that.
Actually, I have a funny story kinda giving some strength to that decision.
A guy wanted to buy a folkboat around here at another one of the local marinas and needed someone to check it out first so he could make a decision. OK, I am no marine surveyor, nor do I pretend to be, but I feel competent enough to give an opinion on this particular matter, being familiar with the folkboats anatomy and especially if I was to do the work.
He called me late in the day a few days after talking for the first time and wanted to meet down the dock.I dropped what I was doin, got cauf=ght in stationary traffic and when I finally arrived he had gone. Lovely. ANyway, I took the opportunity to check the thing out while I was there with some light left.
On the same dock I was described to go there was another single fellow awaiting the owner of a different folkboat to show in regard to another sale goin on. I chatted with him for a bit and discussed the boat he thought was the one he had come to see and then hopped aboard the boat I had come to inspect, removed some of the contents, with the knowledge that the owner had been informed I was to do so by the prospective buyer and started pokin around inside, hottin my head on things and generally muttering to myself and taking mental notes..
Here it is.


Needed a new deck I thought but the hull seemed sound enough.



WHile I was down there repositioning myself amongst the all too familiar space, with different objects from what I am accustomed filling it, I felt the boat rock quite suddenly to one side. SOmeone else was aboard.
I stuck my head up through the forward hatch and surprised the hell out of another guy I had walked past earlier by the carpark.

It ended up he was actually the owner and had come down to show the dude I was talking with, who was looking at the wrong boat incidentally,the very folkboat I was strangely inside of merrily tapping and grunting my way about the interior of.


I think we all kinda figured out what was happening simultaneously, and with finding myself with very little to say that could have been relevant, I kinda shrugged my shoulders and began sinking slowly back down to what I was doing, thinking if there was any questions to answer or an explanation to offer, they would happen in due time when the asker of such things decided to do so.
Before I could disappear, the owner stops me by saying somethinglike, " wait a minute', gesturing toward me in a puzzled way and kinda stumbling over words continued with a," are..... are... aren't you, are you, I know you. Aren't you", and here I was thinking he was about to flip out and start freaking out about the fact that there was some stranger aboard his boat making himself quite comfortable with being there and he went on,"the guy with the blog? Aah, the folkboat found you blog, thread thing online. On the WBF? Isn't that you?" at the same time a warm smile spread across his friendly looking face and out came a hand to shake.
So anyway, as far as the thread goes, I guess I am famous in some circles. He said he , being the new owner of a folkboat, was in the process of enjoying this thread daily and thanked me for my inspiration and contributions.
I gotta tell ya. I felt pretty good about that. Really made my day it did. Good on ya mate. Hope things worked out for you.
The guy who wanted me to check it out withdrew from the deal anyway, but I didn't mind the drive and the time it took, just for the experience.
We had a bit of a laugh on things and all was well.



Bit of weed there.
My answer was ,"Yes, she is worth fixing up for sure, lets get goin then shall we"?
But that was another story.

[RFNK]

Great!

Rick

[Larks]

yep, great! But:

then hopped aboard the boat I had come to inspect, removed some of the contents, with the knowledge that the owner had been informed I was to do so by the prospective buyer

maybe you need to explain that little throw away comment a bit better...???? If I found some bloke on my boat removing contents with the reason being that a prospective buyer who'd pulled out anyway had "informed me" that said bloke was to do so, I'd probably be sending said bloke for a long walk off a short pier.....

so I'm assuming that I'm not reading what you wrote the way you meant to write it???


But that aside.....did the boat get sold in the end?

[floatingkiwi]

yep, great! But:


maybe you need to explain that little throw away comment a bit better...???? If I found some bloke on my boat removing contents with the reason being that a prospective buyer who'd pulled out anyway had "informed me" that said bloke was to do so, I'd probably be sending said bloke for a long walk off a short pier.....

so I'm assuming that I'm not reading what you wrote the way you meant to write it???


But that aside.....did the boat get sold in the end?

I wasn't removing contents because a prospective buyer had informed an owner I was to do so. I was doing it to gain access to the wooden structure of the hull and floors, frames, etc.

[floatingkiwi]

But anyway, that isn't even the boat I am workin on. I have yet to get to that but business on said boat is holding me up from doing so. I shall get there shortly.

[Larks]

I wasn't removing contents because a prospective buyer had informed an owner I was to do so. I was doing it to gain access to the wooden structure of the hull and floors, frames, etc.

Do you know if it ended up selling?

[floatingkiwi]

I wasn't removing contents because a prospective buyer had informed an owner I was to do so. I was doing it to gain access to the wooden structure of the hull and floors, frames, etc.

This was supposed to be a joke mate. But then, you already knew that right?
When reading this , "then hopped aboard the boat I had come to inspect, removed some of the contents, with the knowledge that the owner had been informed I was to do so by the prospective buyer", I fail to see what is difficult to understand.I just read it again a couple of times and it seems reasonably straightforward. I felt OK doing so as the owner had been informed I might be there doing what I was and wouldn't wonder who the hell I was, because the guy who wanted me to look at it had told him. It doesn't get any simpler than that. What was the tricky bit again there Greg, I sincerely wish to right this misunderstanding.
He hadn't pulled out at this stage yet, if that helps and my saying," Good on ya mate. Hope things worked out for you.", was an indication that i didn't know whether it sold or not. I still don't.

[Larks]

Don't sweat it Kerry, I understood what you meant after your first response (3843)....that you were moving things out of the way to inspect the hull, which I should have realised, not removing things as in remove them from the hull, as it sounded at first reading.

[floatingkiwi]

Excellent.

[floatingkiwi]

Glory B, She be.

[floatingkiwi]

Some nosey fot had managed to test the strength of it sometime between when I left for the day and it drying properly so a little shaving off the buckled high side that greeted me the next day was in order.








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