
Wednesday, 22 July 2009
Monday, 13 July 2009
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
The end of the old paint


A large cork sheet, courtesy of ebay and £10... Will remake gaskets for powerhead from this, just to see if the engine will run ok to begin with.. Useful stuff to have around, glad I got plenty,,,,

Finally, after a few hours pain, the black has gone, and good ridance....
The orange is the old coat and the yellow is the Gelcoat... I think my earlier worries were false..
Wednesday, 1 July 2009


its hard to see.. odd that the orange is in the middle of the sanded area, I thought it was above the light-brown, assuming the orange is the gel coat?

The first ever time I have heard this run....
Problems with the gaskets leaking, causing cooling water and Exhaust to mix, I think..thicker gasket material on way, to see if it fixes problem.. sounds meatier than it does in real life!..


However, when in position, its pretty close.. It may not 'lay back' as much as it could, making it taller, but that may not be a bad thing.. (see above)

A change of tack, i decided to print the screen that a fellow boat owner had given to me as X / Y coordinates... office roll printer very handy :) - this screen was for a shakespeare clubman, slightly different from my boat.. I cut this carefully, leaving the small tranparent polygons at each end of the shape.

Saturday, 30 May 2009












A nice sunny saturday and not much else to do.. decided to pull motor apart to see why I cant get neutral or reverse.. I began by carefully removing the casing to powerhead bolts.. these are all 6mm threaded into, I guess, aluminium.. all felt springy and got tighter the more I tried to undo them.. I previously took some time trying to spray them and loosen a bit (the ones I could get to the other end of). Today, I used heat, and I finally just went for it.. all but one came out, the snapped one is no problem to remove.. after that i thought the easy bit was ahead.. taking the powerhead up from the casing...
I tried every nice gentle way for about 3 hours.. completely beaten I rang local boatyards.. I wasn't missing any tricks, 30 + years had welded the engine and casing together!
I gave up the softly approach, and picked the back of the boat up by the powerhead, using my crane, walked away and got a beer, expecting the boat to fall an inch onto the trailer, and the powerhead to be swining in the breeze...
30 mintues later I did what I never thought I would have to.. a huge mallet and a blunt flat driver :(
Thursday, 28 May 2009

Monday, 25 May 2009
Rye in a thunderstorm








:( 375K, I googled it.. http://www.phillipsandstubbs.co.uk/site/go/viewParticulars?propertyID=89402

Decided on a sunny morning, to take a trip to the South coast, down to Rottingdean, to eventually end up at Romney Marsh to grab a boat fuel tank, two waterskis, and a steering wheel... It was a pleasent hot sunny day, ending in a very atmospheric storm.. A nice house for sale almost next to the boat-launch but a few hundred grand out of my range ...
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
http://people.dsv.su.se/~klas/Boats/home.html
some naughty people.. 115 hp though..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IJVvjqwcXY
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udzCtL9aYcA
some naughty people.. 115 hp though..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IJVvjqwcXY
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udzCtL9aYcA





Starting to think this is a shakespear from the late 70's, early 80's... 6'4 by about 13'5"
Sunday, 17 May 2009
Buying an old motorboat on ebay



(I have since learned that the internal deck could be part of the hull structure.I hope it isnt though)







I passed on this boat, a fletcher I think.. and went to see/buy the other boat on my list.. in landlocked Milton Keynes... first problem was a trailer that hung out a long way to the right ...



Here is a few pics and notes concerning an ebay aqquisition I made in mid May 2009. The original advert was for a boat, an outboard, and a trailer. The boat was an unknown model, and completely bereft of trim, screen, metalwork, seats..
I originally thought of buying a boat because as I have a honda 110hp V4 VFR800 motorcycle engine sitting idle in the shed, needing a home... I have since quickly given up that idea...
On route to buy the boat I visited a boat yard, to see another shell, a very cheap one, and also to chat to thhe owner of the yard to get some ideas..
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