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Yea ... What's a Plink?
Hendo's Randall 35 Cray Boat complete rebuild, Perth, Western Australia
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RT Firefly
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Greetings,
Plink? Refer to post #2596...That's the sound of the penny dropping.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/the+penny+drops
Plink? Refer to post #2596...That's the sound of the penny dropping.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/the+penny+drops
Greetings,
Plink? Refer to post #2596...That's the sound of the penny dropping.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/the+penny+drops
Ah roger!
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Today I finished off the Starboard side superstructure and began to move fwd and doing the walkway, the toe rail and the fwd cabin side. I skim coated the window surround also. I have filleted and fitted some fairing guides on the flare to give me something to "screed" the epoxy off to to help the flare take shape. Once the epoxy has dried I'll unscrew and remove the plastic covered timber strips leaving an epoxy guide to work with. Bloody great idea I reckon lol
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RT Firefly
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Greetings,
Mr. H. IF you're going to fill the spaces between those strips with fairing compound you're adding even more weight above the waterline mate. I'm getting very concerned about stability, both for Solstice AND myself (another topic...). Do you have space for adding ballast in the bilges for what I'm feeling more and more may have to be a LOT of ballast.
While she's looking absolutely marvelous, given the amount of ballast you may have to add will put her low in the water and a real pig to move...
Mr. H. IF you're going to fill the spaces between those strips with fairing compound you're adding even more weight above the waterline mate. I'm getting very concerned about stability, both for Solstice AND myself (another topic...). Do you have space for adding ballast in the bilges for what I'm feeling more and more may have to be a LOT of ballast.
While she's looking absolutely marvelous, given the amount of ballast you may have to add will put her low in the water and a real pig to move...
Hi RTF
Yep I will be skim coating the area with thickened epoxy.
Cheers mate.
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Nomad Willy
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Matt,
Buicks are still available but don't know for how much. Probably priced competitively. I test drove a "Verano" a few months ago. Amazingly smooth but Buicks have been known for that since the 30's. The ride was smooth too .. relative to todays standards. But the most noticeable feature was how quiet it was. Have'nt ridden in a quiet car for a long time. I was heavy into Buicks as a young man especially the straight eights.
I do like your Holden. It reminds me of the Chevrolet Nova 4cyl 4dr (they also had 6cyl engines). Most or all of the American cars in the past had a low end basic model w small "hub caps", minimal trim, plain uppostery, roll-up windows and no extra frills. They had an honest look about them while the vast majority of cars look more like a cheap imitation of a luxury car. And the mechanical components of the luxo models were the same as the base models. Many had bigger engines but built of the same quality parts. So in the US there was only one level of quality in cars. How big of an engine and how much flashy trimming was the choice of the day.
But the Buicks were known to be good quality but lacking the close to vulgar pretentiousness of it's stable mate ... Cadillac. So Buicks were bought by mostly conservative people. Is that so w the Holden?
Buicks are still available but don't know for how much. Probably priced competitively. I test drove a "Verano" a few months ago. Amazingly smooth but Buicks have been known for that since the 30's. The ride was smooth too .. relative to todays standards. But the most noticeable feature was how quiet it was. Have'nt ridden in a quiet car for a long time. I was heavy into Buicks as a young man especially the straight eights.
I do like your Holden. It reminds me of the Chevrolet Nova 4cyl 4dr (they also had 6cyl engines). Most or all of the American cars in the past had a low end basic model w small "hub caps", minimal trim, plain uppostery, roll-up windows and no extra frills. They had an honest look about them while the vast majority of cars look more like a cheap imitation of a luxury car. And the mechanical components of the luxo models were the same as the base models. Many had bigger engines but built of the same quality parts. So in the US there was only one level of quality in cars. How big of an engine and how much flashy trimming was the choice of the day.
But the Buicks were known to be good quality but lacking the close to vulgar pretentiousness of it's stable mate ... Cadillac. So Buicks were bought by mostly conservative people. Is that so w the Holden?
Matt my mate - Your energy, drive, creativeness and sheer gumption has been unbelievable... also, these items have paced way beyond my capabilities for a project such as this.
Keep up the good work and best luck in the outcome! - Art
Keep up the good work and best luck in the outcome! - Art
Think I've struck gold. Well led but it gold to me. A guy on Facebook works with led and always has off cuts and has offered them to me for $1.71kg. I'm stoked. A supplier quoted me rolls at $4.50kg
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Matt my mate - Your energy, drive, creativeness and sheer gumption has been unbelievable... also, these items have paced way beyond my capabilities for a project such as this.
Keep up the good work and best luck in the outcome! - Art
Thanks Art. I appreciate your support mate but it sounded like you're leaving???!!!!
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Mate tbh I'm not sure about the specifics you've asked. Personally I'm a 78 model and the cars are 60ish models so I'm not really across indepth specifics
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Heck no! Just wishing ya good luck for all items in your endeavor. I'd just gotten back from 5 days on boat and was still rocking with the waves. Can't wait to hear of your adventures once SOLSTICE splashes.
Great find!
Yep sure am. There is absolutely no difference between what I'm doing there on the flare than what I've done with the rest of the build mate. Epoxy glue fillet mixture, faired, glassed, faired and primed.
Those guides are just there to assist in the curvature of the flare is uniformly applied across the area.
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Nomad Willy
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Matt wrote;
"Those guides are just there to assist in the curvature of the flare is uniformly applied across the area"
I don't understand and suspect it may be difficult to explain. Those "guides" look fairly involved .. a serious piece of work. "curvature of the flare is uniformly applied" .. to the joint between the upper and lower part of the hull sides? The flare would be an vertical thing .. a vertical curve. But the frames inside the boat should determine that. It alludes me.
"Those guides are just there to assist in the curvature of the flare is uniformly applied across the area"
I don't understand and suspect it may be difficult to explain. Those "guides" look fairly involved .. a serious piece of work. "curvature of the flare is uniformly applied" .. to the joint between the upper and lower part of the hull sides? The flare would be an vertical thing .. a vertical curve. But the frames inside the boat should determine that. It alludes me.
A top of cosmetics: Flare also deflects wave edge outward and away from boat in seas. I like boats with heavy bow flare and tapered side flare in their design. Professional Fisher boats usually have good bow flare; those are the baby's when in seas need wave deflection... big time. It's also an extra buoyancy provider; i.e. more flare there is less deep the bow will burry in waves.
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Nomad Willy
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Art,
If the bow was'nt suffering from lack of volume due to excessive flare.
With a given beam flare is achieved by reducing boat volume lower down where it's needed to pop the front end up when encountering a big wave. The less volume the less "pop" then flare becomes a last ditch effort. There should be a ballance in everything. Many salmon trollers I see in Alaska have almost no flare but they usually have high freeboard in the bow.
Matt I thought about that when I asked the question and I'm glad you scuttled the effort.
If the bow was'nt suffering from lack of volume due to excessive flare.
With a given beam flare is achieved by reducing boat volume lower down where it's needed to pop the front end up when encountering a big wave. The less volume the less "pop" then flare becomes a last ditch effort. There should be a ballance in everything. Many salmon trollers I see in Alaska have almost no flare but they usually have high freeboard in the bow.
Matt I thought about that when I asked the question and I'm glad you scuttled the effort.
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Who's Rick?
Love your avatar eagle419.
Love your avatar eagle419.
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Maybe that was meant as humor, but it feels wrong. Insulting someone else`s boat is not on, especially a labor of love. How about taking it down,yourself or if beyond time, with Mod help.Cosmetic as in puttin' lipstick on a pig?
I agree 110%! Please take that down... Matt is an artist and a marine-star for his incredible, long term pleasure boat reconfiguration.
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She-kon's comment was signed Rick...
And thanks for your kind words re my boat, Eric
