Help reqd for Riviera slavery next week

[tcm]

My volunteer to help do the boat next week has cried off. Well, his brother in law age 36 has suddenly died which is a bit awful. But the boating must go on!

So, i am looking for someone to help me on the boat. We bomb down to Antibes in a fast estate car full of self-adhesive copper sheet, overalls, antifoul remover and a spray gun. We stay in a b+b in antibes, and spend sunday geting the things we need off the boat into the car, and see the boat starts which it probaly will. Monday we take the boat 500 yards to the crane ready for liftout. They chock it off, then help me clean off the existing crap and epoxy when it's clean. Then praps tues or weds we start to stick on the copper, bit like rubbish wallpapering. Then we askem to re-chock the boat to do the gaps, and when thats done the crane plops it back in the water and all finished. Oh yes, there the anodes as well.

I spose i cd get some dayworker to help but he might be an idiot. So lemmee know if you or someone you know fancies it. Bout 120 sq metres of copper. But it is self-adhesive. Yes, i buy the beers, fuel, food and so on.

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[Alistairr]

Sounds fine to me, I'm used to being a slave, As long as you go easy with the Whip/forums/images/icons/shocked.gif.
Just post the flight tickets in the post, and we'll be right over./forums/images/icons/smile.gif



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[Benny1]

What's all this copper sheeting malarkey? Not antifouled boat yet, will be doing after easter, so any 'different' ideas could be interesting.


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[tcm]

in the olden days all boats had copper sheeting to keep barnacles away. But the copper was expensive. sometimes more expensive than the boat. So they made paint full of excellent ghastly chemicals to do the same thing. But the paint kils other things too. So modern antifoul paint is less decent by law, and so doesn't keep off the barnacles, so i'm going back to the copper like what erm ooh The Cutty Sark has lots of, hence no barnacles, hence no antifoul needed, and the copper lasts maybe ten years. I get the money back in a bout two years cos of saving on lifts alone, never mind the blimmin painting.

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[Benny1]

Hmmm...sounds interesting...does it go green like a copper roof? How long will it last for? How much is it - or how much would it be for a Targa 40? Is it easy to fit over spray rails etc? Where do you get it from? Think that's it!

Sorry to go on, just interested/curious.

ps thought you were determined to have a black bottom, so to speak.

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[tcm]

Yep it'll go greenish (but not as green as some roofs) and yep, i am/was determined to have black bottom but will sacrifice the colour in favour of zero barnacles. Supposed to last ten years. Foil-specialists in the midlands are the kiddies.

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[jimi]

How do you know this stuff'll stay stuck? And what do you do about the joins to ensure no water ingress starting a peeling process ... crepes its just fell in .. its a banana boat ..

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[BarryH]

Well I think its all abit of a wind up and a jolly jape. tcm's obviously been watching too much telly and seen that Lynda Barker woman on changing rooms with her books of copper leaf guilding anything that don't move!

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[tcm]

well, see theere several other boat wiv the stuff on already - including one that does 38 knots. And theirs doesnae come off. You roll the overlaps wiv wallpaer so no water touches the hull, or hardly any anyway. Tell you what, i'll work out how to do it, then sub out the jobs to the clyde!

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[tcm]

well, the cutty sark is covered in the stuff from the waterline down and did 80 days to china. So, it can't be too crap, else thi wooddenave dunnit ?

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[Alistairr]

Who cares, if it works. As long as i can get a free holiday out of him./forums/images/icons/smile.gif



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[jimi]

Whit kind of wall paper are ye using .. thon embossed stuff is crap .. ye'd be better aff with the barnacles .. best to use moisture resistant stuff .. bathroom paper designed for Australia probably best as long as you don't get the one's with piccie of Kylie's arse!

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[tcm]

hm, well, if all you need is easyflight to gatwick i can pick you up and pay for tickets you use, must be only £100 eh? But I am not sure this is for you, especially with you getting a man in to lay paving slabs

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[Alistairr]

It was just that day, I couldn't be arsed mixing the cement. Bring someone into do it. So as i could get on with more important things.

Like going out in the boat.
Cause it was a lovely day.


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[jimi]

I would'nt employ the bugger. Turns perfectly decent slabs into crazy paving cos he's too mean to use proper skelpings .. you'd end up with a copper mache hull! Bet when AlisistairR was at school his woodwork was aye cockeye!

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[tcm]

"couldn't be arsed mixing the cement! " Dearie me, and you're hoping for a start with boat fettling. Tsk. You don't know you're born you flippin 50 knot petrol merchants.

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[Deleted User YDKXO]

As a v. interested bystander, please ensure plenty of pics posted on forum showing disastrous results together with costs of professional rectification
So, how does this work then? Is the foil bendy or stiff and how is it fixed? 3" nails through the hull or something more high tech? What happens around the tricky bits like prop tunnels and bowthrusters? How is the foil shaped over spray rails on the hull? And now that there is a fantastic electrical connection between boat and water, are you concerned about being best lightning conductor in the Med?

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[Alistairr]

I'll have you know!!! I was top of the class in woodwork at school...
Have you never Heard of 'Beithcraft'??? Well that was me/forums/images/icons/smile.gif.

Heres one i built at school for my Higher,

And its made of Mahogany, No Foils






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[jimi]

Ah would have failed you for that pile o' shite, ye'' be getting yin o' yon manky auld gaffers next

Here's whit ah did for ma o level woodwork

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[Alistairr]

There is a difference!!
What would you rather do? Gardening work, or Boating Work??

I know which i'd choose./forums/images/icons/smile.gif

Instead of copper, why don't you put 50knt engines in and blast them of when you take her out for a spin!! Mind you with engines capable of 50knts in your size of boat, You may need to tow a Tanker behind, or rob a bank../forums/images/icons/laugh.gif



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