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Cruiser restoration and wheelchair adaption

fergal.b

So here she is my next little project

she is a Richardson Roving Gem that I hope to convert to take the wheelchair, I'm going to need all the help I can get with this so feel free to offer what you have :rolleyes: I'm going to try and get her moved to Skerries and see if I can pick up a trailer to back her into a driveway as it's too tight to have a crane lift her in. So let me know what you think or any ideas you have. I must be mad

After a bit of a power wash

Inside all stripped out now I have a blank canvas.

This is what she looked like back in the 70's at least the new TV won't take up as much room:)

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moonshadow

IF it's meant for you it won't pass you !! Well done mate .

HeidiHeidi

fergal.b wrote: »

Whoo Look what I just won and €500 couldn't have come at a better time :D:D:D

No more worthy recipient!!!

Stheno

fergal.b wrote: »

Whoo Look what I just won and €500 couldn't have come at a better time :D:D:D

Deadly

fergal.b

Cheers

It's a battle of the sexes now I'm up against the Queen of DIY next :eek: should be fun but I have no idea what we will be doing.

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HeidiHeidi

fergal.b wrote: »

Cheers It's a battle of the sexes now I'm up against the Queen of DIY next :eek: should be fun but I have no idea what we will be doing.

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Jaysus..... is it a spectator sport? Can we get tickets???

Stheno

fergal.b wrote: »

Cheers It's a battle of the sexes now I'm up against the Queen of DIY next :eek: should be fun but I have no idea what we will be doing.

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Did you have to do stuff to win?

fergal.b

Stheno wrote: »

Did you have to do stuff to win?

You Just had to post in photos of your DIY projects, I think this got it for me

sogood

Well done and much deserved. A very worthy winner.

fergal.b

Lights fixed

I also made a new hub out of mahogany for behind the steering wheel, looking a bit better now with a proper captains wheel.

Simey still scraping and sanding away and doing a fine job, the top coats come off handy enough with the heat gun but the primer is a real pig to get off it's like a latex paint as for the antifoul

below the waterline was not too bad with only a few coats but above the waterline where someone could reach while she was still in the water it's about 1 cm thick. :eek:

A bit of work done on the wheelchair lift I will fit it back in the boat now to workout how much room I have for the hydraulic ram and where to place it.

fergal.b

Ok it looks like the final vote is up to you for DIY the person of the year, you can pick between Old's Cool or a very nicely painted shed it's up to you

Click the link, Cheers

http://www.arro.ie/The-Ultimate-Battle-Of-The-Sexes

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HeidiHeidi

fergal.b wrote: »

Ok it looks like the final vote is up to you for DIY the person of the year, you can pick between Old's Cool or a very nicely painted shed it's up to you Click the link, Cheers

http://www.arro.ie/The-Ultimate-Battle-Of-The-Sexes

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Vote gone in. You're a shoo-in so far!

Can we vote more than once???

fergal.b

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Vote gone in. You're a shoo-in so far!

Can we vote more than once???

I have no idea but I'm sure once is enough :cool:

Thanks for your vote

fergal.b

Back to business

Paint stripped off with the heat-gun, now time to get sanding.

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With the help of Simey and Keith we were able to fly through it even though we ended up looking like Jack frost

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Just the top left to do now.

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All the holes scratches and dings filled and sanded.

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Boxed in the platform this will all be coated in fiberglass cloth and sealed so that even with the weight of two people and a wheelchair it should stay above water, Hopefully

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No I'm not using it as a rubbish bin

I'm going to fill the sections with expanding foam and empty bottles with sealed lids this will help cut down the cost of the foam and will help pervent saturation of the platform, the foam will be done in stages with the first one just to hold the bottles in place and stop them floating up the foam will also stiffen up the platform and add strength.

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HeidiHeidi

fergal.b wrote: »

Ok it looks like the final vote is up to you for DIY the person of the year, you can pick between Old's Cool or a very nicely painted shed it's up to you Click the link, Cheers

http://www.arro.ie/The-Ultimate-Battle-Of-The-Sexes

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Also - I'm assuming (maybe unfairly, but maybe not) that she didn't buiild the flipping shed before painting it!

I think that should be made clear!!!

pedroeibar1

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Also - I'm assuming (maybe unfairly, but maybe not) that she didn't buiild the flipping shed before painting it!

I think that should be made clear!!!

Agreed. If she did not make them (and I mean MAKE, not assemble!) her skills are limited to holding a paintbrush. That is not DIY, it is pandering to the sponsor ( a paint company FFS!)

fergal.b

Nothing against her but I did think some of the other girls projects were a lot better, I know one of them that did upscaling of old furniture and they were very good with a lot of work put in to them, if I had to go head to head with her with a project it would be close. Going down to the vote I have an advantage with you guy's /girls but still she is not far behind :eek: maybe I shouldn't have voted for her

HeidiHeidi

fergal.b wrote: »

Nothing against her but I did think some of the other girls projects were a lot better, I know one of them that did upscaling of old furniture and they were very good with a lot of work put in to them, if I had to go head to head with her with a project it would be close. Going down to the vote I have an advantage with you guy's /girls but still she is not far behind :eek: maybe I shouldn't have voted for her

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There should be a bit of a back-story to your projects! Those pictures don't do justice at all - people might be fooled into thinking you just varnished that boat (no mean feat in itself!) or stuck the steering wheel onto it, or something.

And what's this "I (shouldn't have) voted for her" - are you MAD??? :eek:

Stheno

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

And what's this "I (shouldn't have) voted for her" - are you MAD??? :eek:

Sick in th e head I'd say

Mad as a box of frogs

BowWow

fergal.b wrote: »

No I'm not using it as a rubbish bin I'm going to fill the sections with expanding foam and empty bottles with sealed lids this will help cut down the cost of the foam and will help pervent saturation of the platform, the foam will be done in stages with the first one just to hold the bottles in place and stop them floating up the foam will also stiffen up the platform and add strength.

What about using 100mm wall insulation with expandable foam around the edge to hold it in place?

fergal.b

BowWow wrote: »

What about using 100mm wall insulation with expandable foam around the edge to hold it in place?

I did think of doing that with kingspan or the pink or blue insulation boards even swimming pool noodles

but I just couldn't find any proof that in the long term they would not absorb moisture, even with closed cell foam it's not the cells that take on water but the little spaces in-between the cells, with the sealed bottles they should last a life time and the bigger the air pocket the more buoyancy.

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fergal.b

Stheno wrote: »

Sick in th e head I'd say

Mad as a box of frogs

You could be right she is ahead of me now :eek:

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Thargor

Stick the voting link in your sig in big letters in bold and bump a few of your old project threads, they'll have hundreds of subscribers to see it, should scrape a few more votes that way. Painting a shed is a joke next to that boat.

Sleepy

Voted there, you're currently looking to have a comfortable lead but everyone reading this should vote anyway!

connel42

Just voted - best of luck.

hardCopy

Voted, good luck. Thanks for all the updates, I know nothing about boats but lurk here regularly as it's a very interesting and impressive project.

fergal.b

Back to business, a few repair jobs to the bow as it's a little untidy looking.

All ground out and filled with fibreglass.

The other side was a bit of a mess with the bottom half about 2" out from the top :eek:

The gap was filled with silicone .

And some rough looking fibreglass.

To get it back into shape I drilled some holes for coach bolts and then using blocks of wood on the inside I just tightened them up till I got it in position.

I filled the outside with fibreglass and used mat on the inside just have to leave it over the weekend before I sand it down.

Simey started on top with his little sander collection

I also showed him how to do a bit of welding, for someone that had never seen a welder before he soon got the hang of it.

Daibheid

Terrific progress Fergal. You're cleaning up some real ugly bits but I'd be a bit concerned on the overlap. You're obviously not leaving the brace there but you will leave a lot of stress in that repair so I'd suggest layering in a lot of GRP on the inside and maybe at least one layer of woven roving on the outside. I know it'll make more work to get a faired finish to your standard on the outside but it'll reduce the risk of an ugly split line out through your handiwork in a year or sooner when smacking into some steep lake chop.
Nosing ahead in the DIY vote too!

fergal.b

Daibheid wrote: »

Terrific progress Fergal. You're cleaning up some real ugly bits but I'd be a bit concerned on the overlap. You're obviously not leaving the brace there but you will leave a lot of stress in that repair so I'd suggest layering in a lot of GRP on the inside and maybe at least one layer of woven roving on the outside. I know it'll make more work to get a faired finish to your standard on the outside but it'll reduce the risk of an ugly split line out through your handiwork in a year or sooner when smacking into some steep lake chop.
Nosing ahead in the DIY vote too!

There will be a timber running the length of the split on the inside that I will screw into top and bottom from the outside and then fibetglased in place that should hold it in place and keep the clean line on the outside where I might also have a timber rub rail to cover up the join.

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fergal.b

This week I wired in the shore power.

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There will be a storage space/seat here for a generator

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Used fiberglass cloth to seal the platform.

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Drilled out for some fancy blue LED lights

to get a good seal I drill oversized holes and fill them with fiberglass then drill the hole for the lights sealing them in with silicone.

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I do like blue lights

Shame they won't be shining on crystal clear water.

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With all that done I filled the platform with 2 part expanding foam and some of the canned stuff with one or two bottles, not the prettiest but whatever floats your boat

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Fitted the transducer into the keel and fiberglassed over the cable to protect it.

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A bit more sanding done, starting to get close to the end now.

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Daibheid

I'm sure you'll have a reason and I know you have done with it now Ferghal but why didn't you mount the transducer inside the hull for less through holes and ease of fitting?