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For once I agree with VicS, the keels haven't been strengthened, not that much work to do it - strip bilge paint off, apply extra grp & webs, larger plates under the nuts, but a matter of choice.

One thing Dylan, it may well be the photo but the gap between the skeg and the rudder balance looks a bit big ? Inviting ropes etc ?
 
Looks good Dylan.

One word of caution though.....Getting treadmaster of is a nightmare of a job - I had to do the (flush) deck of my previous 30' boat once and I wouldn't wish that on anyone!
 
Congratulations! I've been following your threads with interest, very much looking forward to the videos :)
I'm a little disappointed that you couldn't prove the nay-sayers wrong with your well, but also slightly relieved that there's now no chance of the tables turning!
Hope she serves you well, best of luck with her
 
Scarboroughsloop said:
Looks good Dylan.

One word of caution though.....Getting treadmaster of is a nightmare of a job - I had to do the (flush) deck of my previous 30' boat once and I wouldn't wish that on anyone!
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that was my first techy question.... how do you get it off... I have to say that it was not the top of my list - a good scrub and a lick of paint will be my chosen start

it is rough old stuff to sit on though

D
 
Murv said:
Congratulations! I've been following your threads with interest, very much looking forward to the videos :)
I'm a little disappointed that you couldn't prove the nay-sayers wrong with your well, but also slightly relieved that there's now no chance of the tables turning!
Hope she serves you well, best of luck with her
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I too am sad about the well - had taken a carboard template of a well with me in the back of the car - it got squashed by sails when I loaded the boat for the return journey home

I am a bit sad too.... some-one else might pick it up where left off... and if this old Volvo goes zip then who knows... meantime a stout stern bracket and a 6hp long shaft tucked away in the quarter berth would seem to be a sensible idea

D
 
Hooray! The well is dead...long live the inboard!

Can I also make two predictions...you'll be nowhere near ready in time (but you'll go anyway) and you'll end up smitten and never sell her. Now all we need is to try and keep the rebuild on one thread and all will be well with the world. :encouragement:

Joking aside well done...your search and persistency paid off, the boat looks really nice (so even happier the chainsaw is back in the shed) and I am sure she will serve you well. Looking forward to the refit stories and of course the sailing!

Great stuff!
 
Seajet said:
One thing Dylan, it may well be the photo but the gap between the skeg and the rudder balance looks a bit big ? Inviting ropes etc ?
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Yes I noticed that gap.

I think it is because the rudder shaft has already been bent.

A bit has probably been filed or ground off the top rear corner to stop it jamming on the little fin above it.

When the rudder on the Berwick was bent ..... and it has happened several times ..... it has been straightened with a Spanish windlass round the rudder and keels combined with wedges driven into the gap between the top of the rudder and that fin. We have also filed a little off the top of the rudder.

I was to blame on one occasion when I directed my son in too close to the shore outside Langstone and on to the sand. The Berwick rudder is the same depth as the keels and just running aground on hard sand was sufficient to bend it.
 
Congrats.
What's the post Scotland plan?
Are you going to keep it somewhere for a couple of years for the Milford Haven to Falmouth sector?
Or will there be another saga. :)
 
Thank goodness for that!

But what a pessimist putting an o/b on the back!

You will be installing a whale alert and and an ice warning system too, then
 
Iain C said:
Now all we need is to try and keep the rebuild on one thread and all will be well with the world. :encouragement:
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I agree with that, this stuff make great reading but it is all over the place on the forum. How about a new thread "KTL II", it might beat "Elizmor"
 
dylanwinter said:
that was my first techy question.... how do you get it off... I have to say that it was not the top of my list - a good scrub and a lick of paint will be my chosen start

it is rough old stuff to sit on though

D
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Leave well alone, it's done OK for the last 40 yrs.
I don't have any problem sitting on mine. It cleans up very well with Oxalic acid and elbow grease/stiff brush.
It's much easier to keep clean than the ones with wood slats to trap black gunk under them.
We have a couple of cockpit seat cushions which go below when beating 'coz they end up int the bottom of the cockpit and are more trouble than they are worth.

Well done, it looks a tidy boat and will buff up grand.

I have some battens holding the saloon headlining up, only 2 but they do the job OK. No curtain rail in the head or forecabin to wedge battens behind though.

I removed the lining in the head and hanging locker and temporarily replaced it with laminate flooring underlay 4 years ago.

I like the stripe on the hull, I could do with one of those.

I think that lowering the mast yourself will need a pole or better still an A frame. I'll look to see if I can find pics of the pole systen on my 20'er.
 
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