DoubleEnder
Well-Known Member
I have a little clinker stem dinghy, about 2.5m long. It’s lightly built with what I think is spruce planking about 6mm thick, and I think it’s 75 years old. It’s in ‘reasonable’ shape but needs some of the hood ends refastening, the hanging knees for the thwarts need a bit of attention, and it needs a couple of new bilge runners. It’s my intention to put it back together quite cheaply with brass screws, ring nails and epoxy, so that I can use it to row on the river at the end of my road.
To do a full proper restoration would be beyond my skills. All those tiny copper rivets need either to be hardened up or replaced, for example. But I can make it good enough for a little row on the river. If it breaks up and falls to bits the bank is in easy reach. I wouldn’t use it at sea, and have no need or space for it on my sailing boat.
I would like to move the dinghy out of my shed once the bodging’s done. The shed roof isn’t high enough to haul the boat above head height so I need to make some sort of outside storage. It can be quite low, just high enough to wheel the dinghy in, on a trolley. I am thinking of making the storage something worth looking at, maybe thatched! Or cedar shingles heheh. Like a little folly in my garden.
Any other thoughts? I’d really prefer not to have the poor thing pegged under a polyprop tarp. And I like the idea of a mini tiki hut or something.
To do a full proper restoration would be beyond my skills. All those tiny copper rivets need either to be hardened up or replaced, for example. But I can make it good enough for a little row on the river. If it breaks up and falls to bits the bank is in easy reach. I wouldn’t use it at sea, and have no need or space for it on my sailing boat.
I would like to move the dinghy out of my shed once the bodging’s done. The shed roof isn’t high enough to haul the boat above head height so I need to make some sort of outside storage. It can be quite low, just high enough to wheel the dinghy in, on a trolley. I am thinking of making the storage something worth looking at, maybe thatched! Or cedar shingles heheh. Like a little folly in my garden.
Any other thoughts? I’d really prefer not to have the poor thing pegged under a polyprop tarp. And I like the idea of a mini tiki hut or something.
