Project Persevere 82 Ft of wooden craftwork

[trouville]

Oh! i seem to have added the link to the wrong file!!

Has some very good ideas though, and pressure cooking on a small boat save water and gas!! Also makes squid less like rubber when you dont have a deep freez!!(if you can catch the squid to start with!)

Being a a sailing barge you will be able to make the cotton sails yourself??Must be super to have something with so much history and part of the London landscape

I wonder if she will fit on the French canals?

 

[Sixpence]

I think the french canals are a little into the future , I've only just started the research on her and boy has she got some history. Apparently one of her old skippers was out in a storm that had stopped all the other ships sailing, so to rub it in , he sailed in through one of the london dock entrances , sailed all the way through and out the other end , laughing at the other skippers on the way.
And as for squid, the funniest thing i'd seen in years was 17 yr old that thought her father had onion rings , so pinched one ! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Guest]

Hi
Nice one !!!
At least I know now that I am not the only certified one on this forum !! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Wish you best of luck !! And if I could help .....
RE pictures : Start a website like I have done !!
Recommend the company I have used : 2minuteswebsite.com
Cheap ( 65 quid for 2 years ) and dead easy !!!
Even a moron like me set up the website immediately !!
See mine ,you have the link to the cie at the bottom !!
www.mavourneen-mary.com
Where are you going to keep the boat for the refit ??
Will love to see her !!
Talk to you later

Alain.

 

[Sixpence]

Hi Alain
I have been looking at your site for some time now, she's a beut , hope mine works as well as yours did, speaking to a friend about a site over the next few days
Cheers
Dave

 

[AuntyRinum]

Wow. What a project! I think they are one of the most beautiful vessels there are.
Well done for saving her.

 

[Transcur]

Have you looked at the Dawn Sailing Barge Site ?
http://www.dawn-trust.org.uk/aug2005news.html

She is in a lighter at Heybridge basin. Worth a look. Speak to the people doing her up. It may save a lot of grief later. See the scale of the operation.

Have fun!!!!!!

 

[Sixpence]

OK here goes, if anyone clicks on these pics and complains, I have warned and tried to find a quick solution, they're not that big but I know what it's like before BB
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c359/trevera25/saloonforardfacing.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c359/trevera25/hold.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c359/trevera25/galley.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c359/trevera25/forard.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c359/trevera25/cabin1.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c359/trevera25/bow.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c359/trevera25/aftcabin.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c359/trevera25/06031901.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c359/trevera25/06031900.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c359/trevera25/Drunk-Dog.jpg

And sorry , the last pic will be ME , when I get this done , sorry if I'd already posted some

 

[Sixpence]

Sorry , hadn't looked but have now , seems like a good source for more research thanks

 

[BrendanS]

Make sure you take loads of good quality pics throughout the work. Not only will it fill you with a sense of pride in years to come, but will motivate you halfway through when you see how far you've come, and you can look forward to posting here a slideshow to music like Victorious! <g>

 

[Sixpence]

Thanks Brendan , I look forward to the day , but by then I'll need a skipper , haven't got time to do all that's required AND train as well. Looks like I'll be calling on the TSBC after all

 

[Victorious]

Take lots of pics at every stage... and lots of video.
Not just to keep this forum happy... More for your own records.
I took vids of Victorious rescue from the mud... move to my house etc (1998) and her launch in June 2005... But regret the fact that there is no footage of the years of rebuild..(mainly cos working alone theres nobody to point a vid camera)
Lots of stills but no Vidio /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
Several times during the rebuild i got very disheartened by the scale of the task.
Looking back at the footage... reminded of how bad she was when i started... realising how much progress I'd made... Very good for rekindling motivation.

Websites are great.. but updating them? I have been hopeless at that... Partly cos the site was set up by a "friend" and he did not consider my lack of teccie skills... hence the site is not laid out to make updates easy!
Planning the site and anticipating what it will need as the boat progresses is essential

I guess Most of the forum have seen this, but if you have not....
(Big file.. broardband recomended)
http://www.victorious.co.uk/images3/IndustrialWeb.wmv

 

[Sixpence]

Almost makes you cry at both ends of the work doesn't it, you start with what some call floating firewood, with history, then you end up with a work of art

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

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Good idea but no idea where to start with a blog. Opened one at the same place as NAS , but no idea where to go now

[/ QUOTE ]Dave,

A blog will be definitely be the easiest way for you to keep folks updated with minimal effort.....

Given that you are only 15mins from me, would be happy to meet you for a beer one evening, and show you how to update the blog.... its really quite easy....

Amazed and impressed at what you are taking on..... best of luck!

Hope you are keeping her relatively local, so that I can make lots and lots of 'site visits'!

 

[Sixpence]

Thanks Neil, we will have to get together soon then, busy this weekend and back to see her again next, but soon as possible we'll have to meet. Unfortunately she can't be moved too far to start with, because when the previous owners decided to clean out the bilges < with shovels , the water started coming in. Been relatively dry for forty years !

 

[Porthandbuoy]

Suggest the background music for your rebuild slideshow should be "Madman Across the Water" by Elton John, followed by "I'm Still Standing" when Persevere is finished.

 

[Wansworth]

No Rod Stewart Iam Sailing.......

 

[Guest]

What next ??
Not F....g Candles in the Wind !!

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

I was thinking more along the lines of 'Never Ending Story' by the talented Limahl

 

[Sixpence]

Decisions already been made folks, Rod Stewart, We Are Sailing, harks back to the Ark Royal series back in the seventies

 

[Poignard]

Re: Project Persevere 82 Ft of wooden craft work

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..she was later fitted with an off centre stern tube and engine ...

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According to "Sailing Barges", by Frank Carr, she was fitted with an engine and her rig removed around 1946 when owned by Messrs Theobalds.

I once had a weekend sailing in "Reminder" based at Maldon. It was very enjoyable and quite amazing to realise that such large and complex sailing craft could be operated, winter and summer, by only two men.

By the way, are you taking bookings yet for weekends on Persevere? If so, please put my name down.