Thames Sailing Barge Stuff

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi All,

As my last this is the arrangement on Defiance

Regards Ray

[Eddie LancasterParticipant @eddielancaster]

Hi.Dave, there are more photo’s of Reperter and Mirosa, I will make an album of them for you to refer to it may take a while to resize them all and upload them.

Regards.

Eddie.

[Dave SansomParticipant @davesansom26019]

Thanks Eddie

Stay safe Dave IOW

[Eddie LancasterParticipant @eddielancaster]

Hi. Dave, we are keeping safe down here in Kent, the food parcels are being delivered each week.

I have uploaded the photos of Reperter, in the TSB Reperter & Mirosa album, the latter I will do later today.

Reperter is a steel hull and Mirosa is very similar to Veronica.

Hope you are all keeping safe.

Regards.

Eddie.

[Dave SansomParticipant @davesansom26019]

The island is safe but little chance of getting off to the mainland for a while

Enjoying your photo's

Thanks, as they say

Every little helps 🇬🇧

Edited By Dave Sansom on 02/05/2020 13:17:50

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi All,

Well I thought using a moulded hull made by somebody else (thanks Dave Watts) would be cheating but I think it probably takes just as long as building one from scratch !! still here we are with todays progress update.

Now we have all the bulkheads bonded in place now, so onto the shroud attachment points and the tube for attaching the false keel, we have one gentleman in AMBO from Cornwall who sails with working steel lee boards & no keel, but the barge won't beat to windward very well, but as a purist is doing it properly

I see on the AMBO facebook page, Dave is working on a 1/24th scale Giralda 42" grp hull, which will be a flyer if it's as good as my 30"version of Giralda, moulding by Peter Fisher from Selsey.

Regards Ray

[Eddie LancasterParticipant @eddielancaster]

Coming along well Ray and looking good, I have another set of photos of Morosa ready to add to the album, maybe tomorrow.

Regards.

Eddie.

[Dave SansomParticipant @davesansom26019]

My crew are getting jumpy about PPE

[Dave SansomParticipant @davesansom26019]

Isabella is the barges from Cornwall

[Dave SansomParticipant @davesansom26019]

I came 4th

[Dave SansomParticipant @davesansom26019]

This is Peggy named after my Mum

Based on Veronica

[Eddie LancasterParticipant @eddielancaster]

Hi. Dave, the rest of the photo's of Mirosa are now in the album.

Peggy is a good looking barge.

I am in that first photo on the extreme left, in front of the kiosk, so we have met.

Regards.

Eddie.

[Dave SansomParticipant @davesansom26019]

Hi Eddie

Thanks for photos

I'll digest them at leisure , not going anywhere LOL

I'm in the middle in purple t shirt

Let's hope it not long before we are back there

Keep in touch Dave IOW

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Guys

I'm the little fella on the right, who thought it was shorts weather 😀

Chantry/Bluwater is one of my home waters, but the wind down in an o!d quarry has been known to come from all directions !!!

Well the keel bolt tube has been turned from brass with Shoulder to sit on the ply strip and the top held by a ply cross member and a washer soldered on top, has a lot of folk use this as a handle to lift the whole barge so it needs to be sturdy, we have borrowed Veronica's stand and fitted the spare keel I have courtesy of Peter Simmonds 👍

Good comparison old & new sailing with my Dragon Flite in the background.

Dave,

BTW Peggy looks great, I hope she isn't too fast !!!😮⛵

Regards Ray

Edited By Ray Wood 2 on 03/05/2020 15:18:50

[Dave SansomParticipant @davesansom26019]

Hi Ray/ Eddie

So I'm standing next to you facing the wrong way

Boat building looks brilliant

Your making it look so easy

Dave IOW

[Eddie LancasterParticipant @eddielancaster]

Ray, it was shorts weather,I had my woolly jumper off 😊.

Eddie.

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi All,

Some progress today with the main and fore hatch frameworks, ready for the deck now 😀

My lovely wife has mentioned decorating 😯 I knew it was to good to last !! Where is the paint 😈

Regards Ray

[Dave SansomParticipant @davesansom26019]

You needed to let the glue dry, free up some of the clamps.

Keep at it.

Tell the good lady B&Q are not open yet LOL 🇬🇧

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

I have all my clamps on a hardboard strip pinned to a shelf, so I know where they are. I seem to have hundreds, but whenever I get into the clamping situation, there never seems to be enough!!

Yes, I should buy some more. Its amazing how many you can need looking at that snap.

Ash;ley

[Chris FellowsParticipant @chrisfellows72943]

I keep buying more but still don't have enough sometimes!

Ray – my wife asked if I was starting the landing on Monday. She got a rather gruff no! I suppose I will have to get back to the architraves and decorating next week.

Chris

[Eddie LancasterParticipant @eddielancaster]

My friend up in Boston went into B&Q yesterday, they wanted £12-00 for a pkt. of washers, not sure how many but he left without them. Looking good Ray, you’re really on a roll with that build 😀.

Regards.

Eddie.

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi All,

I think get to hull complete and put it to one side, as Eddie knows the rig is the hard part mast spars & sails……. and string.

My little plastic clamps came free with Poundland 5min epoxy twin tubes, but recently they only give you a plastic stirring stick

I seem to be dodging the painting and decorating, I'm currently hiding in the shed, but have to break cover for meals and to Hoover the house

Keep safe I think we may escape soon

Regards Ray

[Tim CooperParticipant @timcooper90034]

Ray

I like that your so hopeful of being released soon. The 70 year olds were told at the start to isolate for 12 weeks so that takes me to June sometime. At least the garden will be finished by then!

My son lives in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, they have just come out of lockdown with no restrictions except a one metre social distancing. He says the roads ars packed with cars and the restaurants are full with queues outside.

Be interesting to see if they have more virus cases now.

B&Q are open here in Nottingham now don't know what the queues are like, but when they tried click and collect it caused a traffic jam.

Tim

Edited By Tim Cooper on 05/05/2020 12:41:52

[Eddie LancasterParticipant @eddielancaster]

The difficult part of the sails and rigging is knowing how far to go with scale fittings and operation, and when to give in to ease of use, Ray put me right on the position of the running back stays because you cannot operate them as in full size. so they have to be moved forward to clear the mainsail when it is fully let out.

Eddie.

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi All,

Portlight is starting to come to life now with the hatch coamings in place and decking started with glue & brass pins, pre-drillng with my Proxxon drill.

Have a good VE day celebration, we have a Spitfire over Maidstone early this afternoon 😎

Kind Regards Ray

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