Vintage Gentleman’s Cruiser

[Andy CParticipant @andyc56856]

The only thing missing is a funky drink with those silly umbrellas in one hand a a good read in the other.

Andy

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

The drinks have arrived by speedboat, Sir

How`s that for service, Andy?

Bob

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Watch out…who is steering ?? theres some b***er in a speedboat mucking about!

Is that wuss Paul on the martini`s???

Ashley

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Hey up!

Here`s another!

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Hello All

As you can all see we are having fun in the sun, I don't like the way Lady Joyce is listing on my side, I'm not that big…but I have to admit to having a heated discussion with a Japanese whaling ship when I went for a paddle on my lilo .

Ashley we live in the North West not Pimlico I don't know anybody up here int north who drinks martineenies.. even those posing golfers drink their gin in pint pots.

Paul

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

That was a nice touch……..That slight lean, I mean……Well spotted, Sir!

Hope the Southern Pretender can understand our BBC accent?…….That`s…Blackpool, Bolton `n` Cromsall of course

Bob

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Hello Captain Bob

I have heard a rumour that you have booked a crane and a low loader and that the police are preparing to provide a wide load escort from your house to Etherow.

Does this mean that the long awaited launch is about to happen.

Paul

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Just an optimistic rumour, I`m afraid!

The model is still under construction and have no plans to sail in the immediate future!

Sorry Paul…….I know very well that you and many others are waiting impatiently for the grand sail……Including myself!……….But I`m just not ready yet

I am quite content to fiddle away making the final bits and pieces and enjoying the build………You can`t blame me for that?

Now…….B****er off!…..lol

Capt Bob

PS…………. How`s this for lateral thinking?………..When we finally get sailing, I `m thinking, we could set off on the 7.2 volt pair of motors and when a good speed is attained…….Switch over to the other pair of motors running on 12volts!……….eh?

I`ll bet, that`s made you all…….Even more impatient!……….Me too!

Admiral

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Hello Paul

I think you were confusing the crane we used last week……….When we went on the Jolly to the Bahamas?

Capt Bob

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Work in progress

Finally finished the windows!………They are all open, as I need to keep moving them to prevent the varnish setting in the hinges!

Next relaxation job is to make a pretty rubber dinghy for the cabin roof

Bob

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Work in progress………The makings of the rubber dinghy

Got to admit, it`s not a pretty sight, but a novel approach?

All the segments are threaded onto a length of flex and are now nicely under control!

Now for the P51 to the rescue

Bob

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

What????

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Well, hello stranger!

I was going to say……."Mustang to the rescue"……….Then I thought nobody would get it!

Suppose I`ve now spoilt your finest hour!

Bob

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

I think you meant one of these

or maybe one of these?

I hope the weather next year keeps fine for the launch of this model – that's assuming you've finished plumbing in the kitchen sink by then.

DM

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Tis better to travel, than to arrive……So the saying goes?

All in good time my good man!

We don`t want to venture out….half dressed!

Too many important bits of bling to fit yet…….Handrails are a must and the portholes etc

Bob

PS The Mustang is a P51

 

Edited By Bob Abell on 14/05/2015 20:37:11

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

PS The Mustang is a P51

Yes, that's correct, Bob…………..and the Lightning is a P38 and the Warhawk is a P40. I don't see your point.

The extract from the book is actually "Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour." There are limits to this, however. For example, Sisyphus might well have disagreed with Robert Louis Stevenson (had he been given the chance). After reading 159 pages of this thread I think I know how he might have felt.

DM

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

The dinghy construction had a few large gaps to fill

P38 and P51 are both fillers……That's all

Bob

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

So you've read all 159 pages then?……….Good on yer!

Mind you, you are guilty of posting a few hot air speeches…….Your last post is a prime example!

Bob

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

I've never heard of P51 filler, Bob – only P38 and P40. I can't find it using Google either. Do you have a link to it?

Ref hot air, need I remind you that it was you who introduced the literary element, m'duck? Had you not misquoted so obviously then I wouldn't have needed to correct you.

In a week's time or so this thread will have been running for a year. I only continue to read it in the fading hope that one day you will finish the damn thing and actually sail it – then we can all get on with what remains of our lives.

Dave M

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

If I remember correctly, P51 had fibre glass strands in the mixture

It could be P40 and not P51…….Who care`s?

Don`t hold your breath for the Grande Finale………Got another five months to run!

I`m pleased you are keeping up to date, anyway

I once had to write an essay on the saying……."It`s better to travel than to arrive"……For my GCSE Cert…..In 1952

So I`ve not misquoted, afterall….M`Duck

Bob

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Five months???!!! Some of us may not survive the wait.

The filler with chopped strand bits in it (the suppliers call it a "bridger" paste) is Isopon P40 – just in case anyone wishes to buy some. It's excellent for fitting prop tubes, rudder tubes, motor mounts and bow-thrusters to GRP hulls. P38 is a smooth filler-paste which would be more the one to use on your inflatable dinghy.

BTW The GCSE wasn't introduced until 1975. As to whether accurately repeating a misquotation is itself misquoting, I'll leave that to the philosophers (or Paul).

DM

[CookieOldParticipant @cookieold]

Hi All , I took Daves advice and used P40 to fix the plywood bulk heads to the GRP hull on my Perkasa , Then some P38 over it to sand and paint , The hull was really badly twisted so i needed something really strong i tryed epoxys but they all failed .P40 did a really good job rock solid. see my gallery.

Regards Dave

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Dave

Sisyphus had an easier task and that was after building that great canal.

Can you name the connection between Sisyphus and Springfield?

Its actually 160 pages as this build is mentioned in Genesis just after Adam takes up golf.

Misquoting a misquote is a double federal offence in Texas (that's why I go to B&Q)

Bob

You really cant be serious about 5 months……..instead of P51 we should be discussing P45

Guess who is bored.

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Dear Bored

In five months time it will be early September and we will have just come home from a successful weekend at Haydock……Having swept the board of valuable trophies. Cups and prizes!

Do you really think, I would not post something?

Bob

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Can you name the connection between Sisyphus and Springfield?

Wouldn't be The Simpsons, would it?

Bob

In five months' time early September will have been history for a month.

DM

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