Classic wooden speedboat build , sink, search for, recovery and rebuild.

gutteruu · 25-03-2014 1:18am

15k would buy you enough wood to build this... Number 1 on my bucket list is to build one of these some day.

What is the next project?

fergal.b · 25-03-2014 1:28am

gutteruu wrote: »

15k would buy you enough wood to build this... Number 1 on my bucket list is to build one of these some day.

What is the next project?

Don't put off till your dying what you can do today:D Have a look at the Glen-l Tahoe 23, Monaco and riviera they are all in your hands you just have to let them out

fergal.b · 12-04-2014 12:48pm

Hmmmmm

fergal.b · 13-04-2014 11:02am

HeidiHeidi · 13-04-2014 11:10am

What's goin' on here? I'm confused, Ted

fergal.b · 13-04-2014 11:23am

Any idea now

HeidiHeidi · 13-04-2014 11:26am

Emmmm........ not really!

But it's looking more boat-related than patio-heater-related now!

JamesM · 13-04-2014 3:07pm

Two lovely pieces of stainless ? steel salvaged from broken heater FOR ????

fergal.b · 14-04-2014 5:45pm

Transom Bands

HeidiHeidi · 14-04-2014 5:47pm

Well now. I'd have been a LONG time guessing that.

Only you could see transom bands (new one on me!), or indeed any sort of a boat part, in a fallen-down patio heater

fergal.b · 16-04-2014 12:20pm

A bit more red leather I might also put a glove box on the left hand side

miss no stars · 16-04-2014 4:06pm

What are the plans for the engine cover? Gonna do something on rails?

fergal.b · 16-04-2014 4:29pm

miss no stars wrote: »

What are the plans for the engine cover? Gonna do something on rails?

I'm playing around with linear actuators they are like electric rams that will lift the hatch up

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fergal.b · 07-05-2014 11:17am

A few photos from the weekend.

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Daibheid · 07-05-2014 11:37am

It's impossible to decide which is the best side/angle in the photos - it just looks perfect from any angle. The conditions looked nice too.

fergal.b · 08-05-2014 12:38am

And it looks like I made the Glen-L face book page

https://www.facebook.com/glenlboatplans?ref=stream

fergal.b wrote: »

A few photos from the weekend.

IreJohn · 08-05-2014 1:15am

Congratulations Fergal, recognition well earned !

fergal.b · 03-06-2014 4:00pm

She's famous

"well almost"

Talent · 03-06-2014 6:20pm

Thought of you when I got my mag in the post this morning!

fergal.b · 16-06-2014 8:22am

A bit more testing over the weekend, I seem to be getting a bit of a vortex at the back of the boat and it's forcing water spray up the transom and soaking my back :rolleyes: I might have to fit a spray rail across the transom or try and find whats causing the spray maybe fit a Gopro to have a good look unless someone has a wind tunnel I can use

Talent · 16-06-2014 10:50am

Looks like the overwater profile of the boat may be playing a part. At a guess you are getting vortices coming off each side which may be interacting with each other around the transom. If they meet in phase they can reinforce each other. My untrained eye suggests that the wash coming off the hull bottom is relatively clean. Are you getting exhaust fumes with the backwash?

BTW passed you out going down the MI on Friday close to lunchtime. We were in a reddish Ford Focus.

breghall · 16-06-2014 2:59pm

Are your tabs sitting below the waterline and being dragged through the water? I use a GoPro if you can get your hands on one defintely .

fergal.b · 16-06-2014 6:17pm

No smell of fumes and the tabs are a few mm above the bottom of the transom, the bow looks a bit low so I might give the tabs a few turns to bring it up and see how that works.

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pedroeibar1 · 16-06-2014 6:44pm

I don't believe any of that stuff.:P Everything Fergal does is perfect; he knows exactly what is wrong, he's just screwin' around so that he has an excuse to get out on the water ('Dear, I really do need to get afloat to test my most recent adjustments to the trim tabs.')

:D

spaceHopper · 17-06-2014 10:56am

pedroeibar1 wrote: »

I don't believe any of that stuff.:P Everything Fergal does is perfect; he knows exactly what is wrong, he's just screwin' around so that he has an excuse to get out on the water ('Dear, I really do need to get afloat to test my most recent adjustments to the trim tabs.') :D

You need to turn it up a bit, be a cranky old man at home till she sends you out on the water then come home a new happy man who is joy to live with.

It works but she may send you to see a shrink to see if you are bi-polar, explain it to them and they'll understand

fergal.b · 20-06-2014 1:08pm

I got the use of a wind tunnel and this is whats happening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTRRPNWBGEM

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fergal.b · 05-07-2014 2:33pm

After a bit of playing around with the trim tabs I think I have it sorted now

all nice and dry and a happy passenger

fergal.b · 22-09-2014 3:03pm

One of the things that was bugging me was the black plastic cover on the steering column it just didn't look the part.

So with the help of DeVore on the woodcraft forum this is what we came up with

Schindlers Pissed · 28-09-2014 12:47pm

I know nothing about boats but Old's Cool is an absolute beauty…….and I love the name!

Sadler32 · 30-11-2014 11:08am

Wow Fergal, I have been following the thread. Your work is amazing and the name is a stroke of genius.

I have a quick question you might be able to help me with. I am looking for a dinghy I can restore. I have just gotten a motorboat on the shannon and want something i can use and stow in the davits.
The boat is 13ft wide, so looking for a dinghy around 12ft. I dont mind if it is grp or wood. I would perfer wooden, clinker built. But I want a medium sized project.

My question is do you know any good places to look??
I have looked on DD and all the usual places, but there isnt anything suitable. And the ones that "I could make do with" have prices are silly.
And I dont want to just make do.

Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Classic wooden speedboat build , sink, search for, recovery and rebuild.

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