People who strip boats

[William_H]

Rebuilds

I certainly agree that it is far better to make do with what you have and get out there using the boat than do a huge rebuild wasting lots of sailing time. I see it often a big hull brought home to someone's yard for a rebuild that takes many years. Fortunately for my little boat I discipline my slelf to sumer season dates. So home in April and relaunched last week in September. What I do each winter is not very much but I do enjoy it.
Regarding stripping out with a smaller boats under 24ft I think much of the furniture etc is a waste of space and weight. I reckon a small boat should have seat /bunks down each side form bow (vee berth) to stern 1/4 berths. Then enough bulkhead structure to reinforce chain plates and mast support. You don't need much more and you have all that space.
You can add a cooking type unit or box that goes under the cockpit. Anyway Dylan keep looking although I have always advocated just appreciate what you have and curtail those dreams olewill

 

[onesea]

I have a view that if a project is going to stop the boat sailing for more than a week I have got it wrong!

There is one on going soon that I could do myself: Rudder bearings, seacocks, engine mounts cutlass bearing repacking stern gland.

She needs to be out and it will take me more than a week, I pay a man to get it done for me. I will do the seacocks but my engineer will have time if I get stuck. I will antifoul. , but these guys will do in 5 days what will take me 3 weeks plus other projects. So but the time I've paid for cradle and storage ashore I see little value in trying to save on me doing something they can do allot quicker...

Stripping a boat is for the foolish in my mind...

 

[Rivers & creeks]

We did it on the huge aft cabin of our HT27, and it took six months to get it right again. Sure it was a lot better but it cost hours and hours and over a grand. Never again, good enough is good enough.

 

[Seanick]

I think the old saying goes 'It takes seconds to taketh away, but a lifetime to replace', or something like that.

 

[Twister_Ken]

One of my favourite old sayings - "The last 10% of a job takes 90% of the time."

 

[JumbleDuck]

One of my favourite old sayings - "The last 10% of a job takes 90% of the time."

... and this also applies to the last 10% of the job.

 

[sailorman]

One of my favourite old sayings - "The last 10% of a job takes 90% of the time."

It there are 3 Crows in a field, the`re Rooks

 

[Keen_Ed]

If there's a rook on his own, he's a crow.

 

[sailorman]

If there's a rook on his own, he's a crow.

Possibly lost or Billy no mates

 

[Davegriff]

There's a guy on YouTube who's done loads of videos completely gutting a boat whilst constantly bemoaning the original 'rubbish' built, and saying how much better it'll be when he's done the 'rebuild'. No posts at all since though. Seemed to enjoy winging more than actually doing.

 

[dylanwinter]

It there are 3 Crows in a field, the`re Rooks

Rooks (Coruvs frugilegus) and carrion crow (Corvus corone corone) are different but it is easy to "mix them up".

One of the physical differences is the bill. A rook has a greyish white bare skin at the base of the bill.

But a young rook doesn't have this skin and can look like a crow. The difference is the bill, the crows bill is more "blunt" as opposed to the "pointed" bill of the rook.

Rooks also breed in colonies (or rookeries), building their nests close together.

There is also another crow called the "Hooded crow" (Corvus corone cornix), but they have a grey and black plumage and are not as widespread as the carrion crow.

 

[sailorman]

Rooks (Coruvs frugilegus) and carrion crow (Corvus corone corone) are different but it is easy to "mix them up".

One of the physical differences is the bill. A rook has a greyish white bare skin at the base of the bill.

But a young rook doesn't have this skin and can look like a crow. The difference is the bill, the crows bill is more "blunt" as opposed to the "pointed" bill of the rook.

Rooks also breed in colonies (or rookeries), building their nests close together.

There is also another crow called the "Hooded crow" (Corvus corone cornix), but they have a grey and black plumage and are not as widespread as the carrion crow.

So how many were there Dylan :encouragement:

 

[DanTribe]

Rooks (Coruvs frugilegus) and carrion crow (Corvus corone corone) are different but it is easy to "mix them up".

One of the physical differences is the bill. A rook has a greyish white bare skin at the base of the bill.

But a young rook doesn't have this skin and can look like a crow. The difference is the bill, the crows bill is more "blunt" as opposed to the "pointed" bill of the rook.

Rooks also breed in colonies (or rookeries), building their nests close together.

There is also another crow called the "Hooded crow" (Corvus corone cornix), but they have a grey and black plumage and are not as widespread as the carrion crow.

Thank you Dylan, for such an erudite definition. I shall write that in my little book of "Birdwatcher facts that ordinary people don't know"
However, I don't think it has the"zap" of
" If you see a rook, it's a crow. If you see some crows, they are rooks"

 

[sailorman]

Thank you Dylan, for such an erudite definition. I shall write that in my little book of "Birdwatcher facts that ordinary people don't know"
However, I don't think it has the"zap" of
" If you see a rook, it's a crow. If you see some crows, they are rooks"

That rhyme was told to be by a real old countryman in fact he is the happiest chap i have ever known.

 

[dylanwinter]

bit like

That rhyme was told to be by a real old countryman in fact he is the happiest chap i have ever known.

it is a bit like red skies and shepherds

sometimes true

however, while we all care what the weather will be like in the morning - who cares if that big black bird is a crow or a rook


apart from us anally retentive twitchers

D

 

[sailorman]

it is a bit like red skies and shepherds

sometimes true

however, while we all care what the weather will be like in the morning - who cares if that big black bird is a crow or a rook


apart from us anally retentive twitchers

D

I believe one can get an effective ointment for the problem these days :congratulatory:

 

[Uricanejack]

Hoodies.

or Hooded Crows are common in the Highlands. They are the same bird as a Carrion Crow just different plumage and on occasions will interbreed

 

[LittleSister]

One of my favourite old sayings - "The last 10% of a job takes 90% of the time."

Or more accurately - "The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time. The last 10% of the job takes another 90% of the time."!

 

[DanTribe]

Most boatyards have a graveyard corner of broken dream hulks.
I have known several people who buy perfectly seviceable boats then spend years and shed loads of money "refitting" them. If you ask them why, you often get a response like "the sea is unforgiving and a ship has to be able to handle all conditions"
. OK, but why did you buy that boat then?
I can think of 3 cases where the owner has died before even getting a sail and has left an unuseable and unsellable hulk for the family to dispose of.
I suspect that some people like the IDEA of owning a boat but are actually nervous about sailing.

 

[Simondjuk]

There aren't many practical people around any more I guess. We took 16 months of weekends to turn a £4K boat into a £15K boat which was better finished than when new. Saw lots of other projects abandoned by initially enthusiastic but clueless DIYers while we were in the yard of course.