Spray Hood/Cockpit cover

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Hoi Lung (folkboat) would like to meet canvas artiste who can design me a sprayhood / cockpit cover combination; gotta be sympathetic to the style of the boat, but keep the rainwater out. We're currently laid up on the R. Deben at Melton, so someone local would be good. Any advice much appreciated.

T.
 
Nick Mussett is very good - when Francis Fletcher had all new canvas he quoted significantly cheaper than the two others, and the quality was and remains very good. You're welcome to have a look mid April when its all back aboard. He is West Mersea based, but is up in Woodbridge reasonably often - he now does quite a few boats at Larkmans, where we are.

We have had mainsail cover, dodgers (zipped/roll up for dog access from tender), spray hood, full attaching cockpit tent, canvas companianway hanging door, divided washboards bag, and cockpit table bag.

Nick, a sailmaker, does the measuring and the fitting, and his wife Jane (and others?) makes the items.

Telephone 01206 385658
 
Hi Mirelle,

Thanks also for your tip. I think Hoi Lung's dodgers and sailcoat are from Suffolk Sails; also I think Steve at Larkman's mentioned Mike Bamford. Looks like I might be spoilt for choice! Also looks like a great weekend for working on boats. Guess I might actually get to meet up with you guys sometime.

T.
 
Re: Choice of two:

Mirelle

I have been given the impression by your recommendation #1 that they are not wild about doing canvas because they're so busy with sails. I like them, and they make and service FF's sails. Your recommendation #2 was one of the ones who quoted unsuccessfully for FF's canvas.

Hoi Lung

I saw Nick and his son measuring up on the nice looking green boat just over the railway line and on the right as you drive in (GRP Vertue? beginning with "R", normally moored at Ramsholt). I therefore expect a new sprayhood will be appearing there shortly. He has the interesting challenge of gaps in the hood to allow the winches to be operated. FF is a Golden Hind at the river end of a row of boats, a couple of rows back from the workshop/chandlery.
 
Re: Choice of two:

I do like Vertues; not sure that I know the particular one to which you refer but I'll check it out this weekend. I'm hoping (traffic on the A3/M25/A12 pwermitting ! ha!) to be at Larkman's early on Friday, so if You're around this weekend will seek you out to say hello.

All the best.

T.
 
Hope so

Will be at Robertsons; one hesitates to suggest a lunchtime pint, in the interests of "productivity" (!) but since it gets dark early how about an early evening one?
 
Re: Hope so

Woodbridge has several good pubs, plus some that are shall we say for the young at heart...

The (Woodbridge) Cherry Tree which is, incidentally, my local, serves perfect Adnams. Francis Fletcher knows where.

The Seckford Arms is the other serious Camra type pub

The Steelyard is the 12th oldest pub in Britain (don't know how they know that).

The Seal is one of the youngest, but does not look it.

You may find the Rector in the King's Head.

The Anchor is by tradition the sailing pub

And then there are the Cross Keys, the Mariners...well, I could go on...
 
Re: Hope so

Apart from all the MG type stuff(you know, the probing fingers of the young flood, the plaintive call, the bogie stove, etc. etc.) the other big attraction of the East coast is the discovery of Mr. Adnams and his his rather splendid beer. So I'd be up for a meet in the Cherry Tree. Friday Night? carry a copy of Classic Boat?

T.
 
Woodbridge Pubs

Cherry Tree for Broadside. Anchor for barmaid (nice lines, but utterly charmless). I like the Angel, for the pool table, but I'm the only one who does. Kings Head is impressive, and when my friend worked there I got in on the lock-ins, but she's taken her boat around the world and is currently in the Grenadines, damn her eyes. The one which is geographically nearest to Robertson's is fantastic for getting your head kicked in within minutes.

Personally speaking, the finest hospitality I've ever experienced in the centre of Woodbridge is at Francis_Fletcher's mum's house - amongst a circle of non-smokers, I excused myself to sneak outside for a crafty fag, to which our hostess simply offered me a box of Havanas...

/<

PS: Mirelle, is the Seckford Arms that splendidly quirky place near the alms houses/school/impressive building of some kind)? I really liked that - all alcoves and curtains, and with it's own tiny cinema at the back...
 
Re: Woodbridge Pubs

Correct, on all points!

Incidentally, the friend-now-in-the-Grenadines impressed many of us, when she slipped her large and very serious boat at Robertsons, by turning up with a drop dead gorgeous, but wholly useless, boyfriend! thereby reversing the natural order of things!
 
Re: cockpit cover

Getting back to the cockpit cover, Richard Hare (another Woodbridgian) has contibuted a piece for the May issue of CB (assuming you can wait that long) on a 'bimini' - sounds dangerously foreign to me. Possibly not quite what you're looking for, but might spark some diy ideas.

A3/M25/A12? Sounds oddly like my own route, except I can equally choose between the A3 and M3. Gambler's choice.
 
Re: cockpit cover

I want to add a spray hood to my folkboat. I hope to find one in Sweden the home of the FB? When youve made your enquires could you post the quoted price please,as then if its reasonable i could order the same!
 
Re: cockpit cover

Trouville, beware of ordering a sprayhood without fitting. I've been down this road recently, and all the advice I received was to either have it fitted locally specifically to the boat (despite my boat being a production boat with less variations likely than a folkboat), OR send away the previous hood as a template (which is what I did).
Apparently sprayhoods can be a mess if not fitted properly.

oh... and go for the 152 /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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