Fanintheattic wrote: » Aazing stuff just read it from start to finish sorry present. Keep up the good work I would love to do somethng like this myself.Well done you. I,m a carpenter and not too far (Athlone) if you need any advice on fit out drop me a line not that i think you need it your doing so well by your own some. Oh on the windows keep the original 70,s bono wrap arounds soo cool!!!
fergal.b wrote: » I did up a boat in a pvc tunnel, a local farmer had one that the plastic had ripped off and was not been used so I asked him for a lone of a few poles off it, with 4 poles I was able to cover a 23 foot boat it was also well able to stand up to the wind where as I think it would be a nightmare with one of those tents. Might be worth your while having a look around. This is the type I mean.
dnme wrote: » Fanintheattic wrote: » Aazing stuff just read it from start to finish sorry present. Keep up the good work I would love to do somethng like this myself.Well done you. I,m a carpenter and not too far (Athlone) if you need any advice on fit out drop me a line not that i think you need it your doing so well by your own some. Oh on the windows keep the original 70,s bono wrap arounds soo cool!!! Many thanks Fanintheattic I guess my next job is cutting out panels (access) in the top of the cabin seating. But then I need to run stringers across the deck floor and lay down a floor (18mm marine ply). Any tips as to how to get the shape / coutour right on the stringers? Lets say I run 3 stringers across, is it simple enough to get them all level with one another? ...and that's another thing? How do I know what level is in this boat? What's my reference point for levelling, I guess I can level her side to side but what about lengthways? Christ! hadn't thought about this too much
Fanintheattic wrote: » Right I've been thinking about this so here it goes. Measure up 4" at front and back of deck area mark with a piece of tape above line string a line in a grid pattern of say six by six this grid is the true plane of the deck and you can measure down to the " floor " to get sizes of your stringers. It's not level as in spirt level level but it would be true and stable. If you wanted to get it true level I would imagine you'd need to get the water line the only way I can think of doing that is get the weight of the boat convert to volume fill water volume into boat and see where it settles allowing for displacement your water line would two inches higher than the level of the water in the boat I think. It's a long time since I did any volume to weight calculations.
dnme wrote: » Measuring 4" up is the problem. The floor is curbed, uneven etc. 4" up in one place is different to 4" up in another place. Look not to worry, I'll figure it out. I might actually fill it with water and see if i can choc it to what appears level, then mark a line at watertop etc.
harry21 wrote: » Have you any old photos that show the water line on the outside. You could scale off measurements from them maybe and choc the boat level to these. It would be a start. Then you could fill the floor with water on inside to find a common level. Might want to keep in mind too that from now on, most of the weight added will be towards to front of the boat (but an old water line should take account of this I suppose).
dnme wrote: » I wouldn't trust the old water line. Some joe just covered the bottom in black bitumen. I can level it side to side with a lath and a level. Bow to stern I'll do by eye I think.
ValerieR wrote: » Reading the updates to this thread religiously every night - Thanks and well done for the very interesting, entertaining and humoristic documentation of each and every step towards a soon-to-come successful and rewarding achievement ! Just a thought, now that you have opened up the bow, would it be an idea to keep it accessible in the future? There always are plenty of things on a boat you want to store somewhere and have no place to keep it. As far as the colour scheme and naming of the boat, I suggest yellow and white. Yellow is always nice and cheerful on a boat. For the name, I suggest "Black Arrow" : Black for the Sligo colours and Arrow for the Lough ! Of course, these reasons in additional to the actual novel of adventure and romance (between your boat and yourself that is ! ). The ghost ... is not that greedy really - he should really have taken the 5 Jaffa Cakes I have to add I love the doggie - she is absolutely gorgeous ! Keep up the good work ! ValerieR
dnme wrote: » 2. The ghost - who knows! All I can say is, If I hadn't returned when I did, the entire plate was history. But the dog is a she. Her name is Honey. Shes a rescue so I didn't name her. I brought her up from Kerry last year after posting a request on Irishdogs.ie. Shes a dote, highly intelligent and very vocal - loads of loud yawns, moans when I talk to her, snores, howls and kicks the door to get in etc. Shes a beauty, I love her dearly.
ValerieR wrote: » LOL - it does sound very much like ours. He's a black lab-collie X and his name is Casper (a real ghost !!! ) I hope the day is as nice and sunny up there as it is promised here. ValerieR
fergal.b wrote: » You could run 2 or 3 bits of string from one side to the other side along the white lines here at the side of the boat and tape them in place then run one from the transom to the bow and when it touches the other strings you should have a level floor line.:)[/Quote Just another thought on finding a starting point for levelling the deck. In some of your recent photos I noticed you can still see where the original seating was( just above Honey's shoulder in most recent photo ) the seats were prob level with original deck if you measure down from this line you would be very close if not spot on level. Save you the hassle of complicated conversions and filling the boat with water. How about "no hassle" for a name I'm feeling ironic today as I started a job that would only take two hours at nine this morning and I'm only half way through, did no trades man in this country have a level back in the boom times ducking ridiculous
big zeb wrote: » Hi dnme, firstly like everyone else whos commented before me congrats on the work so far, I take my hat off to you. Having done various rebuild projects on cars/ campers etc in the past I know how difficult it can be to find the drive to keep going when your at it on your own day after day but there's a chink of light shining at the end of the tunnel as bright as your new torch:D. So now that i've offered up my tuppence woth of moral support I can only give you a suggestion or two for a name for your legacy of patience. I suggest "The Enemy Within" (dnme within get it?) or maybe An Namhaid for an irish twist. Anyway keep the faith and keep posting.
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dnme wrote: » Your dog is a stunner, but whats with the life jacket? are you far out at sea?
Slig wrote: » Those battens along the side of the seats are to hold up your bed so dont forget about them
Slig wrote: » I was just thinking about it there abit but is there an upstand between the cabin and the outside deck now that you are putting in a deck above the hull on the outside part? Pretty important if you want to keep the cabin dry and it should allow you to put in the outside floor at a level that gives you the most deck space as opposed to whats true level.
