Todays Boating

[Richard BarnettParticipant @richardbarnett67129]

A tin of body filler arrived this morning, guess what I’ve been doing today? All nicely covered now, tomorrow we rub down luckily it’s going to be a dry day so I can give the garden a dusting and myself!

Ricky ye dusty pirate 🏴‍☠️

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

So, you will be wrinkle free next time we see you, eh?.

Ashley

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

The union flag sticker sheet I have just doesn't have the right size flags on it for the bluebird!!! Will have to see what's about on fleabay.

Bad news, the wife's brother Stewart passed away last week due to cv19, allied with that he was a diabetic and had had a heart attack last year. Bit of a body blow and not what anyone should have to deal with, but these are the times.

Ashley

[Michael Cole 8Participant @michaelcole8]

Hi Ashley,

My deepest sympathy to you and your family .

Mike.

[Eddie LancasterParticipant @eddielancaster]

Hi. Ashley,I am so sorry to hear of you and your wife’s sad loss. It does bring it closer to home when it is one of ‘us’.

Best wishes and keep safe.

Eddie

[Eddie LancasterParticipant @eddielancaster]

Hi. Ashley,I am so sorry to hear of you and your wife’s sad loss. It does bring it closer to home when it is one of ‘us’.

Best wishes and keep safe.

Eddie

[geconParticipant @gecon]

Richard,

nice hull, Laura Ashley would be proud of you! Gives me an idea of how I might be allowed to display a boat on top of a chest of drawers in the bedroom.

Regarding Ashley's hope for the future. I would suggest you just exibit a floating vessel in public. Alternatives might get you excluded from the Forum

George

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Ashley,

Sad news indeed , I don't think anybody has the words We lost an old friend who worked in our local Waitrose store last week, count our blessings & that this will be behind us soon.

Regards Ray

[BanjomanParticipant @banjoman]

Ashley,

I, too, am very sorry to hear of your family's sad loss. Please accept my sincere sympathy.

Mattias

[sammykParticipant @sammyk]

Hi Ashley ,sorry to hear your sad loss ,keep safe .regards sammyk

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Ashely informed me earlier, I should like to add my own condolences. We live in difficult times.

Colin

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

MIne too, Ashley. It's one of those things that seems unreal and unimaginable until it happens to you or someone close to you.

Stay safe, m'duck.

Dave M

[geconParticipant @gecon]

Hi Ashley, I did not notice what was going on when I posted earlier today. Sorry to hear of you and your wife's sad loss. Please accept my condolences.

George

[Tim CooperParticipant @timcooper90034]

Ashley

Sorry to hear your news.

Tim

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Hello Ashley

Bad news indeed and in very difficult times, will you be able to attend the funeral.

Paul

[Richard BarnettParticipant @richardbarnett67129]

George, boats aren’t allowed in the house, I think that goes for most of us unless your not married!😂

Ashley told me earlier in the week, not the thing you need to have to deal with even in pre virus times. My best wishes to you and your wife.

Ricky ye pirate 🏴‍☠️

[Eddie LancasterParticipant @eddielancaster]

I am ‘lucky’ in being able to have boats in the house and to be able to build in the dining room, I am not sure that this outweighs being on my own. Having said that I am 150 miles away from home and in lockdown with my friends here in Broadstairs, so I am building out in the shed but I can bring my boat into the house if it is too cold for the glue to set in the shed.

Keep safe.

Eddie

Edited By Eddie Lancaster on 16/04/2020 17:55:22

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Eddie,

Glad to hear your with your friends in the Garden of England, Gwen & I are envious of you being near the seaside I hope you can get some building done, we miss walking on the beach at Pevensey Bay very much 😢

Stay safe, I'm building ships boats for Cossack tonight.

Kind Regards Ray & Gwen xx

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Thanks chaps one and all. We had to go to his flat to clear the kitchen and hoover up the all important documents.

As the flat has been vacant for 9 days now, we bought back all the tinned and unopened stuff, and binned the rest, cleared the fridge/freezer . Although he didn't drink, there were about a dozen (now sanitised) unopened bottles of hard liquor (likely presents and so on) amongst them a bottle of JD `Tennessee fire` and Tennessee Honey liqueur`….which we had to rescue….. I had better bet some orange juice to put with it…

Union flags I have do appear after all to be fit for the Bluebird, and the tail is adorned but the nose will have to wait until tomorrow.

Ashley (only joking DM)

[Eddie LancasterParticipant @eddielancaster]

Hi. Ray and Gwen, yes it is good to be with friends at this time, and looks like I will be here for at least three or four more weeks, I am building the Zulu drifter that was a free plan in MB back in February.

Boats at home are on hold including Cossack and the IOM and a 58” schooner, I will have to try uploading photos from this I phone.

Regards to you all. Eddie.

[Chris FellowsParticipant @chrisfellows72943]

Hi Ashley – sorry to hear of your loss. A friend's brother has recently been taken by the virus at the age of 58, no age at all and his wife now has it. Very worrying and sad times.

Chris

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Not finished yet…stickers and wotnot

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Not finished yet, untested, no decals, no driver…shiny though! Whoops two posts…blooming i-pad

Edited By ashley needham on 19/04/2020 13:34:51

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Contrary to Rays helpful suggestion of rolled acetate for the exhaust duct, I have used very thin card/thick paper, painted with PVA and then swooshed over with silver spray paint (to replace the rolled up acetate!!)

It is nice and stiff, and easy to do. It locates on the fan cowl at the front , and in the `ole at the stern with a blob of PVA stopping it shifting too much.

All I need is a pair of helmeted heads to adorn the cockpit transparency and the white roundels, and its finished.

(and an opportunity to test it)

Ashley

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

A pair of heads, Ashley? Mr Campbell and Mr Whoppit, perhaps? Mr Whoppit

It's certainly looking the part, mate.

Dave M

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