White Heather's website

[mclark]

White Heather\'s website

I would like to promote the website I have put together for my Manx Nobby 'White Heather' through this forum.

If any of our readers have an interest please follow the link and take a look. I would also value greatly any feedback.

I am aware that there are a few errors in it and will one of these days go through page by page making corrections.

Cheers

Mike Clark
www.white-heather-nobby.com

 

[BruceDanforth]

Re: White Heather\'s website

That really is an impressive boat. Obviously a labour of love.

 

[tritonofnor]

Re: White Heather\'s website

Fantastic work! Good site, and what a boat! You should be very proud of her indeed! The amount of effort you have put into her makes the fact that my deckhead needs scraping back and painting seem like a trifling matter....

 

[Sixpence]

Re: White Heather\'s website

Absolute stunner , and excellent website too , hope I can manage as good a job on my project . Were you working on her during leisure time in the winter, or almost full time ? .

 

[tcm]

Re: White Heather\'s website

Nice site, tho i have to admit i initially thought you were the owner of another White Heather. Perhaps yours is the original i dunno!

http://www.yachtandcrew.com/Gallery_files/sy_white%20heather.htm

 

[mclark]

Re: White Heather\'s website

Thanks for the compliments gents. The work was all done in spare time - sailing in summer and working in winter weekends and holidays. broke the work down into bits that would take a winter to finish.

In fairness when it came to the deck which is shown in the restoration section the task was so big I had a shipwright friend - Ken Harris who famously restored the Brixham Trawler Vigilance over 50 years!) work on her for about 9 months.

A lot of the timber was reclaimed - the greenheart for the covering boards, the combings hatches, deckbeams etc were previously decking planks from a roadbridge that was being refurbished. The deck planking was from roof joists (9x3) from an old workhouse.

Mike
PS I think there were lots of White Heather's - mine certainly wasnt the first..

 

[mkpbyrne]

Re: White Heather\'s website

hi Mike
just a note that pl61 gladys of peel will be back on the water this year under the direction/ownership of paul & jo (soon to be) welsh if you havent their contact details let me know off list or contact their website
http://www.keewaydin.co.uk/index.html
i hope you can both hook up. id love to see the 2 oldest nobbys sailing together again.

micb b

 

[shamrock]

Re: White Heather\'s website

That's a beautiful boat, a lot of very hard work and a very nice website. Thank you for sharing that with us. I'm particularly impressed with anyone who buys a 5 tonne oak tree and makes his own planks.

Good luck and fair sailing!

Nick

 

[mclark]

Re: White Heather\'s website

Hi Mike

Thanks for the tip re Gladys

I knew Paul had her but wasnt sure what stage they had got to.

I will be getting iin touch with them shortly for a chat but reading the website it looks as though sadly they have their hands pretty full at the moment with Keeweydin's repairs - they must be heartbroken - there but for the grace of god eh?

Mike

 

[mclark]

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Hi Nick

The Oak tree was a piece of piss compatred to the greenheart - we had to scrape all the road tar off that before we could use it...

Mike

 

[mkpbyrne]

Re: White Heather\'s website

mike
keewaydin is comming on well, but he dosent think he will be ready in time make the high tides to get out of her mud birth by july even though shell be ready by then therefore hes now working on pl61, i had a look at her last weekend and i have to say she's looking well!!!
mick b