Hendo's Randall 35 Cray Boat complete rebuild, Perth, Western Australia
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Hi All,
Has anyone got any feedback on these machines?
I'm weighing up my options and I think I'm going to do my own upholstery and make my own cushions and covers and all of the sewing for everything etc etc etc.
I've spent many hours on the sailrite website watching their videos.
This machine seems pretty good for what I need and nothing local is available so I'll have to import.
Appreciate any feedback from people that have used these machines
Cheers
http://www.sailrite.com/Sailrite-Ultrafeed-LSZ-1-PREMIUM-220V-European-Walking-Foot-Sewing-Machine
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Has anyone got any feedback on these machines?
I'm weighing up my options and I think I'm going to do my own upholstery and make my own cushions and covers and all of the sewing for everything etc etc etc.
I've spent many hours on the sailrite website watching their videos.
This machine seems pretty good for what I need and nothing local is available so I'll have to import.
Appreciate any feedback from people that have used these machines
Cheers
http://www.sailrite.com/Sailrite-Ultrafeed-LSZ-1-PREMIUM-220V-European-Walking-Foot-Sewing-Machine
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She-Kon
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Hey Hendo
The Sailrite's are purpose made so I don't think you can go wrong if you want to spend the money. The wife is the seamstress, sailmaker, upholsterer around here. I bought her an ancient Singer walking foot sewing machine that she uses to do boat canvas etc. $250. She likes it 'cause it's all metal gears, no plastic sh*t. Had a neighbor who did boat canvas for a living. He had an ancient Joku industrial machine. Boat anchor must of weighted about 200 lbs but it would sew anything together. The fella that does canvas around our area now uses a Sailrite so it's gotta be good. Guess what I'm saying is there are others that'll work too without spending a gronicle or two to buy.
The Sailrite's are purpose made so I don't think you can go wrong if you want to spend the money. The wife is the seamstress, sailmaker, upholsterer around here. I bought her an ancient Singer walking foot sewing machine that she uses to do boat canvas etc. $250. She likes it 'cause it's all metal gears, no plastic sh*t. Had a neighbor who did boat canvas for a living. He had an ancient Joku industrial machine. Boat anchor must of weighted about 200 lbs but it would sew anything together. The fella that does canvas around our area now uses a Sailrite so it's gotta be good. Guess what I'm saying is there are others that'll work too without spending a gronicle or two to buy.
Sweet. I've heard nothing but great things about their products. I've been emailing some bloke called Eric Grant from there and he's been really helpful so just wanted to touch base with everyone on here first before I went ahead and bought one.
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Hi mate.
Thanks for the feedback. I've been looking around here for a little while and for a second handy but some of them are more than the sailrite so I figured I'd go new.
Good to hear that pro's are using them!
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You bought well Mate, will be no disappointment there 
You bought well Mate, will be no disappointment there
Thank you sir! ... Now I'll never get to sleep; between work, sanding and now sewing lol. Ah well, you're a long time dead hey!
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Couple of hours after work sanding
Siestakey this ones for you mate!
There's probably about $80 worth of filler and epoxy and hardener here. Might package it up into little bags and sell it to the local crack heads haha
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Siestakey this ones for you mate!
There's probably about $80 worth of filler and epoxy and hardener here. Might package it up into little bags and sell it to the local crack heads haha
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We bought one last year same model but 110volt not the 220
same package we also got the Ultrafeed Collapsible Sewing Table
easy to store on the boat
Wife says the machine improves after a little use and the customer service is great
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Thanks for the feedback mate. I saw the tables but opted out on that. The cost for freight was at $395 just for the machine.
I did however buy a table off eBay. It's a desk actually. Nice and big and will be great for working on the larger items like the external covers and clears for the boat.
I'll have to do a quick modification to the desk and router out a hole to sink the machine into so the working face is flush with the desktop but it should work out good, and it was cheap
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Thanks mate. Hope your project is going well.
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This afternoon I finished off the sanding and applied some Jotun Jotafair to the vertical internal corners, external edges and some sections of the 50mm horizontal fillets. The Jotafair sands finer and fills pinholes.
Nothing works quite like the index finger when filleting the vertical internal corners.
Once I rub this all back that will be it until the high build primer goes on. There's still pin holes in various places but it's hard to see atm and I could spend days trying to find them and fill them. Once it's sprayed they will stand out like tits on a bull and then there will be some more Jotafair filling and sanding before more coats of HB Primer.
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Nothing works quite like the index finger when filleting the vertical internal corners.
Once I rub this all back that will be it until the high build primer goes on. There's still pin holes in various places but it's hard to see atm and I could spend days trying to find them and fill them. Once it's sprayed they will stand out like tits on a bull and then there will be some more Jotafair filling and sanding before more coats of HB Primer.
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Thanks blue! ... Appreciate your support mate. Good to see the bayliner is getting some miles up on her! ... Seeing Chelles posts on FB help drive me to get AXE done!
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Matt, my friend - A book can never be judged by its cover alone. You have provided no cover at all.
But rather, instead, on the side of a flat outdoor lot... you are joyously giving us a most incredible trip for keel-up boat restoration. It normally takes oo-gobs of personnel in fancy highly funded and enhanced-machined factories to even come close to what you have done and are doing to AXE - by superior intelligence, sheer gumption... and... it's all being accomplished while flying through this monumental excursion by the seat of your pants!
There is/are no word or wards to accurately depict or describe you and your AXE "Creation".
I can only guess at the workings of your mind and the energy in your bones.
May good fortune consistently lay hands upon your being!
Art
But rather, instead, on the side of a flat outdoor lot... you are joyously giving us a most incredible trip for keel-up boat restoration. It normally takes oo-gobs of personnel in fancy highly funded and enhanced-machined factories to even come close to what you have done and are doing to AXE - by superior intelligence, sheer gumption... and... it's all being accomplished while flying through this monumental excursion by the seat of your pants!
There is/are no word or wards to accurately depict or describe you and your AXE "Creation".
I can only guess at the workings of your mind and the energy in your bones.
May good fortune consistently lay hands upon your being!
Art
Matt, my friend - A book can never be judged by its cover alone. You have provided no cover at all.
But rather, instead, on the side of a flat outdoor lot... you are joyously giving us a most incredible trip for keel-up boat restoration. It normally takes oo-gobs of personnel in fancy highly funded and enhanced-machined factories to even come close to what you have done and are doing to AXE - by superior intelligence, sheer gumption... and... it's all being accomplished while flying through this monumental excursion by the seat of your pants!
There is/are no word or wards to accurately depict or describe you and your AXE "Creation".
I can only guess at the workings of your mind and the energy in your bones.
May good fortune consistently lay hands upon your being!
Art
You're truly a wordsmith Art.
Thank you for you kind words and unwavering support during this journey.
I hope one day I get to share a couple of beers with you.
Speaking of books. How's our book deal venture going?!! Lol
Seriously tho thank you for your words of encouragement. I'll be drawing on them during this sanding phase that's for sure!
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Hi All, 
I am wondering if you would be able to help me please
. Im getting ready to order the hardwood to do the Gunwale plank along the topside.
Im going to go wide to enable walking and somewhere to "park ya arse" as well as a nicer "wide chunky" look but I don't want to go too wide and look stupid.
How wide are your gunwales? and would you make yours wider or narrower?
Thanks in advance
I am wondering if you would be able to help me please
. Im getting ready to order the hardwood to do the Gunwale plank along the topside. Im going to go wide to enable walking and somewhere to "park ya arse" as well as a nicer "wide chunky" look but I don't want to go too wide and look stupid.
How wide are your gunwales? and would you make yours wider or narrower?
Thanks in advance
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Hi All,
I am wondering if you would be able to help me please
Im going to go wide to enable walking and somewhere to "park ya arse" as well as a nicer "wide chunky" look but I don't want to go too wide and look stupid.
How wide are your gunwales? and would you make yours wider or narrower?
Thanks in advance
Wow - Matt - There are numerous "useable space", safety, and product protection items to take into account. I hope I'm clearly seeing your question correctly and that my answer actually address (understands) what you request.
Can you provide picts of AXE looking from both front to rear and rear to front on the side deck-areas (gunnels) where you are to be constructing/setting your mentioned "gunnel plank".
Don't your currently fabricated dimensions of cockpit and salon and cabin widths in relation to hull's gunnel edge already place the gunnel plank with basic minimum/maximum width? Or are you speaking of extending the gunnel plank over edge of hull and having rub rail protrude past a virtual vertical plane with hull? I don't recommend doing such as I question; i.e., a protruding bottom of gunnel plank - it would be susceptible to damage at docks and rafting with others due to wave actions and verticle up-lifts what could tear the protrusion all to hell.
Gunnel walks on sides of our Tolly taper; not being all the same width. I've never measured but would guess they reach a low of 14" in couple short locations, going up to 24" wide in others. It's easy to do a 360 degree walk all around our tri hull with plenty SS grab rails against salon/fly-bridge and a gunnel side rail everywhere.
Hope picts help with what I say!
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1 1/4" x approximately 5/8" tall
No as they seem proportional.
No as they seem proportional.
