Got a daunting project?

[fisherman]

Saw this boat today in Falmouth.
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[Wansworth]

Saw this boat today in Falmouth.
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What a story

 

[MOBY2]

Wow that was an interesting read, what a bloke, sure it's not the last we'll hear of him.

 

[Stemar]

Great story.

 

[Snowgoose-1]

Amazing.
How is it that some folks just seem to have the natural talent for things. Must have had lots of support and encouragement to take on a project like this.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

I think this (Khufu ship - Wikipedia) beats it for a ship that has been disassembled and reassembled!

 

[Wansworth]

There have been quite a few ships being built and disassembled twoI read recentl were built in Britain and assembled by Lake Bikal as ferries

 

[veshengro]

I'm glad there are still Shipwrights and skilled Boat Builders about who take an interest in these old vessels, otherwise they would have disappeared under a welter of white plastic years ago.

I was always lucky enough to see a boat or two of interest when down in the South West prior to starting a voyage, usually from Falmouth.
This big Trawler was in Brixham once when I was down that way.


And the black Lugger mid photo was anchored nearby when I lay in the Falmouth Anchorage on another occasion.


I spent a couple winters up the River Fal after being away for a while, and once had the delightful company of an elderly couple anchored nearby in their wooden boat. The lady was highly critical not to say suspicious of my home cooking and so I was regularly invited aboard for wonderful home cooked meals. The elderly man was a fine seaman of the paper chart / repair his own boat generation. They had lived aboard for many years and sailed a regular route of Cornwall/South West for the winter and cruising Brittany every summer.

 

[Wansworth]

Met an elderly couple on a massive Colin archer here in Galicia years back now,how they managed every5hing was heavy,but they had been living like that for years,when the wind got up one afternoon the ship began to drag,luckily fishermen in the cafe bar marina rushed out and got a line on the boat or it would have been on the rocks

 

[fisherman]

Keewaydin, in the pic above LT1192
Keewaydin – C.S.P.S

 

[bikedaft]

Saw this boat today in Falmouth.
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brilliant - thanks

 

[Refueler]

Amazing.
How is it that some folks just seem to have the natural talent for things. Must have had lots of support and encouragement to take on a project like this.

Tectona - was renovated in West Country ... after many years serving as Sail Trainer for Merchant Cadets ....

Pal of mine sadly had serious accident disabling him later ... but he was a Shipwright at Campers & Nicholson in Gosport ..... he was part of the team that renovated Shamrock V .... J class.

 

[veshengro]

Excellent info, Thanks for that Fisherman, I'll put her name in my photos file...

 

[Wansworth]

I think it’s noticiable that craftsmen of all ilk work at a measured pace to us meer laymen the task looks daunting but they are well aware of how and when the work will progress

 

[fisherman]

Talking to these people yesterday, Home - Digital Dry Dock Ltd they have a project to record as many old local boats as possible, and have scanned mine.
I was told that Keewaydin is in very poor condition on top of a barge up Sailor's Creek near Flushing.