Alan and Stewy dial it in - slug fix film

My kind of fettling!

Great news.... sort of Time Team meets Scrap Yard Challenge!

Magna is out and about in the Wash after school ends, are you going to visit us at Wainfleet?

Nick
Bet Magna is slower than the Slug...
 
Never has....

dylanwinter said:
if I am welcome would love to film your amazing channel - assuming anyone knows where it is

Dylan
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Never has anyone asked to film my channel.....

Though Colin my Yachtmaster Coastal instructor once floored the class by saying to us 'Imagine it's a dark night and you're taking your wife up the estuary....'

Nick
pm me an email address if you would like a current (two weeks old) gps plot of the Wainfleet channel as a pdf. (I lose the will to live trying to get pics on here..)
 
I'm astonished Stewy's hand lives on though. The angle grinding scenes should be XXX-rated.

That's the point about old boats (or cars) though. They don't warrant full-rate engineers. They become the preserve of the "will-do" mechanics.
And better for it.
 
Alan and Stew are certainly worth their weight. How did you find them?
I imagine the 'budget' rubber mounts will draw some comment considering the cost of proprietary items.
 
They found me

ghostlymoron said:
Alan and Stew are certainly worth their weight. How did you find them?
I imagine the 'budget' rubber mounts will draw some comment considering the cost of proprietary items.
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They found me. Alan has been watching the KTL films almost since I started - rather alarmingly he says he has learned a lot about sailing from them

particularly the films where the camera is mounted on the boat

Five or six years ago he and Stewie bought an old Flying Fifteen for £200 - did it up and towed it to the Kyles of Bute for a week sailing and camping -



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then inspired by KTL he got an old silhouette that the council was about to take away and destroy

he and Stewie have fabricated new bilge keels and restored the trailer


Alan was the UK motorcycle grass track champion in the 80s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNcZS_jTz6I

while he was working at Rothmans maintaining the cigarette lines in the Rothmans factory

he was also racing the bikes for Rothmans -

he is an inveterate tweaker -

which is why he kept on winning on the Bikes

at Rothmans one time they asked him to repair a machine that was capable of rolling half a million cigarettes a day

two days later it was doing a million a day!

You can imagine the people on the next machine along were a bit surprised when the rolling line doubled in speed.

Stewie is one of his sons friends - he and Alan are very comfortable in each other's company - Alan is in charge and Stewie provides the grunt and the encouragement. Alan calls him son.

I have to say that without their intervention the slug would probably be ashore - or it would have an outboard hanging on the back - while I worked out how to get the beast going again

One serious option was to sell the beast, buy a second hand outboard and replace the beast with some scrap iron balast in the keel box - which would have beena shame

It was amazing how many people really didn't want me to get shot mof the beast - to the point where they started a save the beast fund


Dylan
 
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There could be a small enterprise opportunity - tho part of the reason for the high costs of stuff is the low volumes required.

BTW Dylan, I tried to download 1 video overnight - it took 18 hours & still can't be viewed this morning!!! So this thread is just a tease to me! I shall have to wait for the DVD again. Nowt to do with your videos or site, just my crappy & overpriced "Broadband". So it goes, just one of the disadvantages of a nice house in the country.
 
People like them are in short supply these days and the world is poorer for it. A lot of modern maintenance is of the 'chuck it away and get a new one' variety which does not gel with my generation who were brought up to 'make do and mend'.
Keep 'Slugging away'.
 
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ghostlymoron said:
People like them are in short supply these days and the world is poorer for it. A lot of modern maintenance is of the 'chuck it away and get a new one' variety which does not gel with my generation who were brought up to 'make do and mend'.
Keep 'Slugging away'.
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it is easier to slot in new components and then send the old ones for recycling or re-manufacture

in some ways it makes sense when it comes to washing machines, Tv's, cars

until you come to something that is 45 years old and is likely to be still in use in another half century

then you can't do without Stewy and Alan - gawd blessum
 
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