Sirenia - Back under my bed.

CliveG

CliveG

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Hi
I am pleased to let you all know that Sirenia is now back home and parked in the car port ready for work to start on her restoration.
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Had a quote today for the work.
Not unexpectedly, it is a lot more that the insured value.
Now waiting for the insurance co to get back to me

I have been trying out some of the electronics.
The, new this season, Autohelm 1000+ fires up and seems to be o.k. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
The Navman Plotter (New to me this season) is not playing at the moment. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
The boards seem o.k.
I need to get some one with a bit more clued up on these thing to look at it.
 
Good to see she's back safely Clive, may be able to pop down this week to give her the once over, dependant on how things develop later. Let me know if there's any days to avoid and I'll see if it's possible to tie it in with collecting from John.
 
looks good clive,but i think you have trouble getting the mast up looking at that photo /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

im going into the garden to sit in my boat and drink coffee,coffee tastes best on a boat /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

who needs a potting shed when you have a boat in your garden /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Matt

The mast is bent / broken so it will not be going up again. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

I can swap Sirenia around with the caravan and get the mast up at the rear of the house.
This is only if I take the transom hung rudder off and get her right back to my big shed.
These photos are from a couple of years ago when I was fitting her out following buying her.
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Loking at the 2nd photo I can't beleve how far up the sreaders look.
They where under water when the recovery crew got to her.

We have a potting shed.
I Built it as a birthday present for my good lady wife.
I don't go in it now unless I am delivering potting compost when supplies get low.
She has absolute rule in the garden area.
I have had some dispensation to allow use of some area of the lawn to sort out the shed and all the kit off Sirenia.

I can't believe how much gear we had on board.
That is the problem when you bring the boat home for the winter instead of clearing her out at laying up time.
 
Thought so. Bear in mind though, scrap prices are pretty high at the moment, so don't let anyone 'take it off your hands', plenty of scrap yards will hand over cash these days. Comparitively not much, but each bit will help.
 
i can bring you down some grade "A" horse poo for your wifes garden /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

pity i did not find the forum earlier,your wife will think i am a vandal as i hired a JCB to flatten 1.2 acres or prize garden,there were 870 different varietys of perenials,some were quite rare,as wells as the usual roses etc and then there was the grape vines,and fruit bushes.

my home used to be a nursery for specialist perenials,ive killed the lot,its now mainly weeds and grass for my wifes horses.

I had thousands of plants all potted and ready to go,i gave them away to anyone who wanted them.

have you figured out what went wrong with sirena?

she looks great in the photos,im sure you will get her back to her best
 
I am not at all sure what caused the sinking.

The plan is to get the engine out and then pop her in the water at my local sailing club and see what happens.
 
'The mast is only fit for scrap unless someone wants it to make up one for a smaller boat. '

Can you cut out the section with the mast gate in it and give me that bit? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif The thing I fitted last weekend is useless, so it's back to the drawing board /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
Bernie.

Unfortunately that is the bent bit /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

I will unscrew the plates I made and you can see if that will fit yours.
If not I could come down and have a look at it and see what I can make up.
 
Thanks Clive.

I have taken off the plates I fitted last weekend. They do a fantastic job of not letting the sliders fall out. Unfortunately they are not so good at allowing the sliders to run up and down the mast groove. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

As I've already made screw holes in my mast, I rather need this set of plates to work, somehow. I am taking them to the aluminium/stainless people I know to see if they can shave off a couple of millimetres. I'm hoping this will be enough for the sliders to move up and down without allowing the little perishers to fall out.

Or perhaps they could make something else with screw holes that correspond to the screw holes I've already made? I don't know if that will work, but it's worth a try.

If it doesn't, it would be good if you could spare a mo to look at my mast as you said you'd already tackled this problem successfully on Sirenia's mast.

I'll let you know how the modification works out.
 
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