On the move

[Captain Coochie]

She left Scotland around lunch time and is making her way to London /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif woooohooooo

 

[Ramage]

Very pretty.

What is she?

 

[Captain Coochie]

Its a boat /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

She has just turned up and been covered over for the night . A massive thanks to Ken for doing the towing , you are a star mate and it was great to meet you .
There is loads of history with her but i will go through that tomorrow . As far as i know she has been in storage pretty much since she was built around the mid 50's but as i said loads of info to read up on . woooooooohooooooooo /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Major Catastrophe]

More pictures please. Lots more.

 

[Alistairr]

So my services weren.t needed after all!

And i was really looking forward to seeing her in the flesh.

She does look nice, I'll look forward to seeing all the pics of her in her rebuild.

Good luck.

Cheers

Al.

 

[Captain Coochie]

Hi Al , not this time but thanks for the help you where willing to give /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

A bit more history as i go through it ....

It was ordered to be built at the lower docks in Perth by Melville marine . She was then passed to Glasgow based Cameron and cambell where she was purchased by a Mr Larry Marshall ( from the 1 o clock gang ) /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif The boat was only in the water a few times as Larry had taken a fall off the back of it /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif so it was put into dry storage .

 

[Captain Coochie]

 

[Major Catastrophe]

Let's see cabinet maker with a wooden boat.

Yes, all the boxes get ticked.

 

[Chrusty1]

I think she has a huge amount of potential, I came across this in my travels, don't know if you will get any useful tips from it, but I thought I would pass it on......

http://www.glen-l.com/submethd.html

If you look down the menu you will see that there is a piece about building a mahogony runabout.

 

[Captain Coochie]

Thanks for the link , could come in handy but it seems all the structual parts are fine /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Barry came over today and we had a chat about what we are going to do with her or how far we are willing to go . Looking at the storage pictures of the fore deck there seems to of been some water damage so it has been rubbed back and revarnished and then stick on tape was added to redo the stripes . So we decided to go the whole hog with getting the outside right as all of the inside and structure seems for now to be fine .


In true male style we took her apart /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

We got all the old varnish off the decks and found the trace lines of where the patterns had been painted on before . The plan was to get it back to bare timber to see if we wanted to replace the ply and inlay timber but as the deck is ok we have decided to keep it . As it is stored at my place i can mess around in the evenings filling pin holes and tarting up the deck ready for another sanding and then next weekend we can flip her over and start on her bum . Once that is done we can flip her back over and start on finishing the deck etc .

I was going to keep a log of the work on here but not sure if
1 Anyone is interested and
2 Should it be here or in classic /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[ccscott49]

There's only one docks in Perth! Very pretty wee boat!

 

[Major Catastrophe]

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Should it be here or in classic

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If you want anyone to see the progress, I'd post it on here. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[BarryH]

I can't belive how patchy that deck looks, I'm still blowing chunks of it out of my nose! Maybe we should have had a go at trying to clean it up with oxalic. Though it doesn't look like that in the flesh the camera is playing tricks.....

You know that steering wheel I was talking about...........

 

[Captain Coochie]

Oh no you havnt ordered it have you /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Thats still the linseed going off . The sun has just dropped over the houses so i have just covered her over for the night ......... and yes i told her how sexy she was and how good she is going to look and ......... That blonde girl walked past AGAIN /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif Got a nice smile from her this time /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[BarryH]

Price of that wheel is about the same as the sheet of marine ply we need.....
She blew me a kiss last time, it was the bike leathers that did it, she must be into leather, well I'd like her to be into my leathers......

 

[Chrusty1]

Well I think there may be more experience to draw on in the classic forum, but, that may be matched by enthusiasm, on this forum.........Just a thought, I think she would look good with mahogony and boxwood on the decks, the boxwood taking the part as it were of the caulking, as per any number of classic launches....... What is the planking, is it ply of mahogony boards? The reason I ask, is because if they are mahogony boards, she would look lovely with the whole shooting match given many coats of varnish.

 

[Captain Coochie]

It is a mahogony clinker ply construction , cuban i think . I have some cuban so will check in the morning . We did talk about letting in a maple veneer and if we where to replace the ply deck would probably have done it but as we are keeping this one i ( as i would be the one doing it ) dont want to risk messing it up . I think painting the lines on with some kind of jig to follow the contours of the boat and then varnishing over that would work but i havnt worked out how to do it yet /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[BarryH]

Found a picture of the Larry Marshall the original owner. Maybe we should get as much of its history as possible....

Larry Marshall is the chap 3rd from the left

 

[Chrusty1]

If quality materials were used, the chances are that it is Brazilian Mahogony, it is the most stable of all the Mahogonys, and much loved by traditional boat builders, the method for laying the planks on the deck is not all that difficult, and a simple cutting profile can be made by drawing it on to paper full size that you fixed to the deck, you can then measure and make alterations until the cows come home, because you are only drawing lines with a pencil??

Research as many photos of motor launches as you can, and see how it was done, you have the skills, all you need is the right information, so that you can apply them.

All this of course is just my opinion, but I would urge you to not be in a tearing hurry to get her in the water, a bit of time and thought, and you could have a very pretty little classic, that will also be worth a penny or two! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Captain Coochie]

Wise words on the research . My first thoughts where i know how to do it but i am not risking it on an old deck but maybe i am missing a trick . If it was new it would have been inlaid already but the only way i can see doing this one is to inlay veneer and cutting out the trenching by hand . We talked about this for most of the day , only stopping to look at the blond lady /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif