Yacthing World Mustang

[agentcrm]

Hi, I’m doing some restoration work on a boat my grandpa built and I’m trying to find some more information.
It’s a ‘Yachting World’ Mustang runabout by Colin Mudie. Unfortunately time has not been that friendly to the drawing set.
Which I believe Mr. Mudie gave my grandpa as a farewell present when he left for Australia.

 

[jamie N]

Welcome! A picture might help?

 

[agentcrm]

I tried a link from dropbox, that didn't work though. I'll see what I can do.

 

[agentcrm]

Welcome! A picture might help?

I had tried linking from my dropbox. Have changed to using facebook and it works now.

 

[agentcrm]

Looking through some scanned photo's my dad had on his PC.
Found a few build photo's. Grandpa built a steamer at home too for the build.

Framing finished. He built the boat before he built the rear deck on the house.

Back in the shed and the lower hull had been finished is being turned over.

 

[agentcrm]

Looks like fb links are no longer working so I'll upload them directly.

Cover sheet of the plans and a page from the Yachting world magazine.

Frame under construction in the late 1960's.

Flipping the frame over.

Back in the shed with some the hull finished.

And the early days of her finished and in use.

 

[agentcrm]

How it's spent most of the last 35 years. As a storage box in the shed at home.

And now it's in the back shed at work, empty and ready to be restored. (Grandpa pushed the windscreen back quite a bit and did a different side window shape).

I'd never seen the interior this clean before

 

[Wansworth]

There’s another post about the mustang,look down the page

 

[agentcrm]

There’s another post about the mustang,look down the page

Yes I saw that and commented on it.
I starded this one 2 years ago but only just came back, then realised the images where broken (I was using hyperlinked images before)

 

[agentcrm]

And dad and I have finally started to dig into the boat. Deck is off, windscreen frame and dash are out.
We'd love to find some more of the no slip decking that was used originally, if anyone knows of a similar product that's still available.

 

[agentcrm]

And splitting this off as a second post.
Dad decided to grit blast most of the paint out of the bow. The old glue hasn't help up the best, that said I doubt they expected them to last 50+ years.
There's some old rot in the stem that will be filled with glue, we're also starting to re glue all the little pieces back together.