My Wreck

[Stingo]

It was called "Lucky Jo" but with a little tweaking she became "Ucky"


Today I started the job of removing the carpets that were glued in place. WTF was the previous owner thinking???


A vast improvement, me thinks. Three to go, but I've run out of white spirit to clean the ucky- sticky stuff off the floorboards. Just seeing the wood again makes me feels slightly better about Ucky.

 

[Clancy Moped]

Good luck with the good ship Sticky.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

From some of the pictures you have posted I think I would have stayed in the appartement

 

[Stingo]

Can someone please explain this wisdom? The previous owner has removed all the cabin and cupboard doors. He's screwed the main cabin cupboard door into the cabin doorframe and secured the other side to the mast support using an old belt



He also cut the pot handles in half, I can only assume to make storing them easier. You have no idea how difficult it is to handle a hot pot in a rolly anchorage. TF, I'm not on passage

 

[Stingo]

From some of the pictures you have posted I think I would have stayed in the appartement

Nope. Being cooped up in a concrete box was doing my head in

 

[Clancy Moped]

Did you buy it from Fred West's estate?

 

[Stingo]

Now I have sticky floorboards and no more white spirit, it's like being in a 'Spoons that's run out of cheap vodka

 

[Hoolie]

Put some carpet down - that will get rid of the stickiness!

Actually we have carpet but there's only one piece covering the entire main cabin area. No need to stick it down as it's too big to move.

 

[Boathook]

Now I have sticky floorboards and no more white spirit, it's like being in a 'Spoons that's run out of cheap vodka

What about using your cheap whisky !

I do realise that this may cause other problems !,

 

[Stingo]

What about using your cheap whisky !

I do realise that this may cause other problems !,

That's you off the xmas card list.

 

[The Q]

My broads motorboat has carpet on the internal walls, unfortunately stapled and glued, it's a nightmare to remove..

 

[billskip]

It was called "Lucky Jo" but with a little tweaking she became "Ucky"
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Today I started the job of removing the carpets that were glued in place. WTF was the previous owner thinking???
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A vast improvement, me thinks. Three to go, but I've run out of white spirit to clean the ucky- sticky stuff off the floorboards. Just seeing the wood again makes me feels slightly better about Ucky.
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You must have made a killing when the guy paid you to take that off his hands
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[Stingo]

You must have made a killing when the guy paid you to take that off his hands
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I wish you were correct. Alas not, far from it.

When I win the lottery and buy myself a proper catamaran, I think I'll be lucky to be able to give Ucky away, except to Frenchman.

 

[Stingo]

Good luck with the good ship Sticky.

You spelt Stinky wrong

 

[Fr J Hackett]

You spelt Stinky wrong

So it's stinky as well as sticky, if Cooking Fat wants a new home and would like to live in the country, plenty of mice etc you know who to ring.

 

[Stingo]

So it's stinky as well as sticky, if Cooking Fat wants a new home and would like to live in the country, plenty of mice etc you know who to ring.

I asked the previous owner why he removed the shower from the heads?

"Because I never shower" was the retort accompanied by a look of 'why would I take a shower on a boat'?

 

[Stingo]

I was having a good old chin-wag with a cruiser I know from the Crabby-Ian daze about my wreck. She relayed a story about hearing a story about someone buying a wreck from a cruiser who later found cash hidden in a book aboard their new purchase. So she and her hubby looked through all the books on the boat they had bought a few years earleir and they found just over US$700 hidden between the pages of a few books.

Stinky has now paged through all the books left aboard by the previous delinquent. Nada, rien, nothing, feck all, zilch, not even a €1 coin to buy a glass of cheap Portuguese red plonk.

 

[Roberto]

He also cut the pot handles in half, I can only assume to make storing them easier. You have no idea how difficult it is to handle a hot pot in a rolly anchorage.

I cut mine too: when the boat heels, long handles hit the fixed structure around the cooker and spill the content. Only bought pots and pans with double stubby handles since

 

[Stingo]

I cut mine too: when the boat heels, long handles hit the fixed structure around the cooker and spill the content. Only bought pots and pans with double stubby handles since

Isn't your stove gimballed?

 

[Roberto]

Isn't your stove gimballed?

Yes, but it is enclosed in a cabinet with a wooden bar on one side (against which I lean when the stove is to "leeward" with regards to my body) and a section of the worktable on he other side: the cooker is totally free to gimbal, but as it swings long handles protruding outside of the rectangular cooking area hit the wooden bar or the worktable and twist the pans.
My wife hates cut handles, despite being myself the family cook I had to buy only long handle pans for our home.