Doesn't it feel great.....

[Rob_Webb]

Doesn\'t it feel great.....

.... to have something custom-built for your boat that works out?

Just had a sprayhood purpose designed, built and fitted to Aily's Comet. And bimini is in progress due for completion by weekend (to give me much-needed protection in my cockpit from viscious NZ sun). Sprayhood is exactly right shape and dimensions to see through and walk around. And bimini has perfect height (I'm tall) and reach to cover exactly where I want.

Have never previously enjoyed benefits of custom design of anything much, always had to settle for production stuff. Nice change.

BTW, they call sprayhoods here spraydodgers and spraydodgers are called lee-cloths and God knows what they call lee-cloths, not found a boat with them yet!

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[mirabriani]

Re: Doesn\'t it feel great.....

AAAhhhh!
New Zealand
Got my passport stamped many years ago to resettle there.
I wonder if I'll ever make it now?

Enjoy your sprayhood
A country separated by a common language?

Regards Briani

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[Ships_Cat]

Re: Doesn\'t it feel great.....

How did your drilling big holes in the bottom exercise get on Rob?

John

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[Twister_Ken]

Spoil yourself

Buy a custom-built bike. I did. Fabulous.

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[claymore]

Re: Doesn\'t it feel great.....

Spraydodgers being called lee cloths would be great for Jimi as he's always sleeping and it might prevent him from falling out of the cockpit.
Wonder what they use down there to keep them in bed then?

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[jimi]

Re: Doesn\'t it feel great.....

Sheep dogs.

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[LifeAtSea]

Re: Doesn\'t it feel great.....

Chuckle! Too funny, Jimi.

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[claymore]

Re: Doesn\'t it feel great.....

Been in the knife box obviously - very sharp.

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[Cutter]

Re: Spoil yourself

Only one bike shop in Croydon - knew it had to be Roberts before clicking link. Splendid place - have a friend who has three Roberts bikes - dont know why as he only rides one at a time!

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[mirabriani]

Re: Spoil yourself

What about Evans and Geoffrey Butler?

I still have my old track bike, fixed wheel, one brake, ultra light.
Flew to Isle of Man with it, up as far as the "Creg" and down with a
cheer across the finishing line.
A Covent Garden coster recognised it as a genuine Herne Hill racer.

Happy days
Briani


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[Twister_Ken]

Re: Spoil yourself

There are plenty of other custom builders about, tho' AFAIK Evans is now just a retail chain.

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[Rob_Webb]

Re: Doesn\'t it feel great.....

No dogs, just sheep.

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[Rob_Webb]

Pump

Well she's been happily afloat for a week now and the pump supplied by the fire brigade is on a timer and only needs to run for 45mins in each hour, so I guess I'll have to call the new transducers successful. Only hiccup is I need to install a genset so I can keep the fireman's pump going when I leave the berth.

Fantastic.

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[Ships_Cat]

Re: Pump

Thats good news.

Having a good flow of water through the bilges keeps them clean.

John

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[Ships_Cat]

Names for Thingies

Well we have lee cloths but are what you would expect, to stop people falling out of bunks, and that is what they are usually called here.

Sprayhoods are dodgers and also sprayhoods, have heard both used, as well as unrepeatable names when a wave has demolished them. Ours is hard (quite artful thanks to the designer, so is an "artful dodger" like in Oliver Twist perhaps) and we would probably have lost it before now if it was not.

Not sure what the ones along the lifelines are generally called. Neither we nor any of our friends have any and have never really taken much interest in them. Only a very few boats in our marina would have them and they would mainly be low 30's and less feet sized boats. Anything on the lifelines is likely to be a problem here too.

But thought they are generally called dodgers as well, however, that may just be because I associate with too many foreigners /forums/images/icons/frown.gif. Usually knitted by grandmothers out of natural greasy sheeps' wool left over after all the meaty bits have been sent to UK and to the Arabs - usually knitted in front of the fire with a sheep dog at their feet.

John

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