Boat-builders required

tcm

...
Joined
11 Jan 2002
Messages
23,958
Location
Caribbean at the moment
Visit site
Here's a great opportunity for anyone keen on boats. Well, actually, you have to be more keen on dodgy drugs and inhaling strange substances, cos it's twidddling around in the fibreglassing department.

Anyway, the fibreglassing dept at thingyline is vair ydemanding and challenging BUT not too challenging cos it's only 8 quid an hour even if you're really good. What you do is get some fibreglass mat and then bodge it on a mould with stinky gloop. After about three years of doing this you MIGHT be promoted to team leader, which means you get an extra £1.50 an hour BUT everyone hates you and you get blamed when all the drongos throw a sickie.

Thingyline is a dynamic goahead corporate company and part of a huge solidly finacially fab US company which makes it even better, and not at all a yukky UK company with a load of sheds dotted all over a midlands town with big lorries trying to drag boats from one place to another in the dead of night. Certainly not.

Suitable candiates will be resident close by and possibly be a bit dim to fall for this. Really, we should have a big automated plant for making glassfibre moulds such that humans don't need to spend any time at all poncing around with those little rollers to get the air out. But we don't hence for the moment it is all going vair well, as long as we nail in some nice glossy wood afterwards here and there.

Oh, and one more thing - if you do have any suggestions - keep them to yerself wilya? Especially if you have been on a boat cos hardly any of us have been on a boat, ever, so it sounds a real show-off if you start rattling on about this won't work at sea, and that oughta be stainless steel, or that self-tappers aren't any good and it should be thru-bolted which might be true, but these boats seem ok all the way to germany or even fort lauderdale. ok, that was in a truck, but the truck was at sea, so it counts just the same.





<hr width=100% size=1>
 

Wiggo

New member
Joined
10 Sep 2003
Messages
6,021
Location
In front of the bloody computer again
Visit site
Re: Electrickery types required

Should have a sound working knowledge of spanners, nuts, bolts, glue and string, and the structural uses of sticky-back plastic. Some experience of wiring advantageous, but not essential, as full training on how to leave wires unconnected will be given on the job.

<hr width=100% size=1><A target="_blank" HREF=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/graham.wignall/boats/eulimene600x800.jpg>The old and the new</A>
 

coliholic

New member
Joined
11 Dec 2001
Messages
3,969
Location
Cambridge
Visit site
Well you almost summed the UK boatbuilding up correctly there TCM. I've got a mate working for one of t'other big boatbuilders and from the stories he's told me you've got a couple of misconceptions though. The blokes who get promoted to team leader are actually those that even after 3 years haven't worked out which way on the gloop goes. Gelcoat first then resin and mat next. So a 50\50 chance of getting it right you'd have thought. Nah don't you believe it. So since they're totally incompetent at doing that they get promoted to get 'em off the shop floor so they can't do too much damage. Can't sack 'em 'cos it's hard enough to find drongo's who'll work for the crap money they pay, let alone expect 'em to be able to learn to do unskilled work. Oh and those that do show any talent for the job and have a halfway decent idea of how to do it properly, are put on the repair line, fixing some of the most obvious defects before delivery. There's 2 blokes working on that job and they have to work 70 hours a week to almost keep up, they aim to get it right 40% of the time but haven't hit that target yet. Would you believe there's five blokes who spend all day every day just trying to get the blue stripey bits of the hulls to look roughly the same? And people wonder why they're dropping the blue hull option?

But the big one you've missed is the Mission Statement. I have it on very good authority that the standard phrase heard throughout the workshops of one of our biggest boat builder is constant repetition of the company motto, "t'ain't my boat so waddo I care".

<hr width=100% size=1>
 

longjohnsilver

Well-known member
Joined
30 May 2001
Messages
18,840
Visit site
Cor, there is life out there in the wilds of E Anglia, thort you'd been eaten by a lion or mauled for playing with a leopards bottom

And who are you to speak of poor workmanship, all that wasted copper................../forums/images/icons/smile.gif

So wots new on the boat front?

<hr width=100% size=1>
 

KevB

Active member
Joined
4 Jul 2001
Messages
11,267
Location
Kent/Chichester
Visit site
You're buying <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.qualitysalvage.net/ViewCarPics.asp?CarID=522> This </A> aren't you and just looking for cheap labour!!

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
D

Deleted User YDKXO

Guest
Hey, you're talking about the cream of whats left of UK Manufacturing PLC, you know. Anyway, I thought you were buddy buddy with the Chairman so what have they done to you now?

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Top