Hi from Australia

[boat fan]

 

Sketch of some proposed shelving.

 

 

9 mm marine Meranti plywood brackets cut with jig saw.

 

 

Master pattern.

9 mm plywood.

 

 

Propped on the wall to check for fit.

 

 

 

Adding slats.

 

 

 

 

Completed shelf.

 

The circular art deco motive will be a translucent light panel ( wall sconce )

 

 

[the barnacle]

very smart - love seeing your pictures and the odd one of wildlife and country side - oh do you call it country side on oz?

[boat fan]

Hi barnacle

 

Thank you for dropping in ....and yes we call it countryside too.

 

You have your queen ...and princes and princesses.

 

Our little town has a local princess called the Murray Princess :

 

 

 

 

Spot the hoppers.

 

 

 

[the barnacle]

Wow is the only word to use - love the picture with the cars in.

[Loafer]

There are probably a few who will be out buying the bits by now!

 

Have you copyrighted your design and work?

[boat fan]

No ambitions in that regard Loafer ,

 

Forums are for sharing IMHO.

 

Thank you for your interest , its good to hear from you , I also appreciate your active participation on the forum , I usually learn something new .

 

I do wish I had more time to read more posts.

 

.

[Loafer]

No ambitions in that regard Loafer ,

 

Forums are for sharing IMHO.

 

Thank you for your interest , its good to hear from you , I also appreciate your active participation on the forum , I usually learn something new .

 

I do wish I had more time to read more posts.

 

.

 

Maybe you will when you've finished her!

 

Thank you for your comments.

[Hornet]

Think this is my first post, but had to say thanks for posting, I've been following your build from the

off on the wooden boat forum. Will keep watching and hope to see the official launch soon.

 

Neil.

[bargemast]

Wow is the only word to use - love the picture with the cars in.

 

Aren't they beautiful , after I left the army (jan'71) I lived in London for a while, and at the time these Austin 7 cars were for sale for between £50 and £200 and so were Morris Minor Travellers, someone offered me a narrowboat with a Bolinder for peanuts too, nobody seemed to have much interest for these then.

 

I enjoy all your photographs and stages of the building of your boat very much too boat fan, and if you wouldn't be so far away, I would have liked to come over to see it all for real.

 

Cheers,

 

Peter.

[W+T]

How on earth did i miss this thread, i guess witht just popping in little often now due to the hassle on here and missing threads like this.

I am full on envy of you, for one being in Aus, my biggest ever regret is not going down to Aus when i had chance many years ago when i was younger, my nans brothers son ran a travelling circus and they offered me work and living for aslong as i needed, maybe to live down here. BIG regret indeed .

Anyway, one other, i had planned a similar barge to what you are building a few years back, but over here it is of no use what so ever really, costly to keep moored as a liveaboard and not as far to ravel with ease with such beautiful surroundings as you have.

You are doing and amazing job, one massive benefit you have is the weather to do it, my god i moan due to hole in the canopy over my boat to keep the rain out. And it holds back work so much. What i love about your build is it is all done by yourself and made to spec, not popped out to buy a set of draws or shelving, dam good skills i am envious of.

Your pics are just amazing, it has taken me an hour or so last night just looking through the pics.

 

I wish you all the best with it, after all that graft you deserve it

 

LUVIN IT

[boat fan]

Thank you for the interest W+T.

 

Boating is different here , to be sure .

 

What is curious is how you always seem to want most the things that you cannot have.

 

The one thing I would love to be able to do is stop off and relax in places like this :

 

 

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj54sHcofPLAhUFnZQKHeN2BVsQFggzMAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coolcanals.com%2Fthings-to-do%2Ffood-and-drink%2Fcanalside-pubs.php&usg=AFQjCNG0tMIqTledBSSGZ5uWUXM6RDXbxw

 

 

Or this :

 

 

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwiU9a-spPPLAhWGjJQKHfjICFsQjxwIAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coventrytelegraph.net%2Fwhats-on%2Ffood-drink-news%2Flook-10-great-canalside-pubs-9354091&psig=AFQjCNEusnwGja3ERPNfb99hCx3yEZey6A&ust=1459800915540080

 

We in Australia do not have this kind of social interaction and diversity on our water front.

You have so much of that , and all that history to go with it .

 

It would take a long time before I got through checking out all these places.

 

As far as the weather , well , its not always what it seems here either.

I`m the first to admit that I do enjoy a little more sunshine than what you experience in the UK.

And the cold .But , I can assure you that the experience of having to endure last summer , and the year previous , would not be to your liking. I hated it .

The heat waves experienced here are not nice at all.The temperatures here just soared .This kind of dry scorching heat is actually quite dangerous.

Particularly to small infants and the elderly.

 

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwim0M-zp_PLAhXJnpQKHUlOCwgQFggkMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2Fnews%2F2015-12-19%2Fsa-heatwave-weather-bureau-warns-extreme-fire-danger%2F7043030&usg=AFQjCNEltMuwFHzWcMVBrM13kgciaWAn9w

 

These were the headlines :

 

Adelaide Heatwave: 40 Degree Days And 30 Degree Nights Are Making Everybody In Adelaide Really, REALLY Grumpy

 

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwim0M-zp_PLAhXJnpQKHUlOCwgQFghJMAc&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.news.com.au%2Ftechnology%2Fenvironment%2Fheatwave-emergency-crews-on-high-alert-amid-bushfire-fears%2Fnews-story%2Fad67c3ef45fe247b4e69dd9fe01acc67&usg=AFQjCNHtePuGXyHyNbkYIpImQYZFCmobHA

 

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwim0M-zp_PLAhXJnpQKHUlOCwgQFgg2MAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com.au%2F2015%2F12%2F18%2Fadelaide-heatwave_n_8824536.html&usg=AFQjCNHzAwQOdj1GBO9ksQmxIPC8yNcClw

 

I lost many , many days where I was not able to work on the boat because the heat just sucks all remaining energy out of you.

 

We also get below zero temperatures ( its coming up to that time of the year here now .....)

 

It`s 7.00 Am here right now , just getting light and 5 degrees C outside .

 

I thank you for taking the time for your reply . It`s nice to hear from you .

Edited April 3, 2016 by boat fan

[boat fan]

Hello everyone.

 

I am currently fitting some of the remaining ceiling panels over the rear deck area , and the tedious job of cutting and fitting the finish trim pieces .

 

 

Reflective foil pinned over the ceiling structure.

 

 

 

Fitting the panels between the ceiling joists.

This one fits around one of the waste water vent pipes.

 

 

 

 

 

The rear deck ceiling totals six panels approx 4 x 4 ft or 96 square feet.

 

Fitting some of the trim pieces.

 

 

 

 

Its actually raining here today !

 

So I moved inside to work on some interior trimming out in the front cabin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 6, 2016 by boat fan

[boat fan]

Hello everyone.

 

 

This is how I built the engine mount that will be bolted to the underside of the bridge deck.

The side panels are 2 layers 3/8 Meranti marine plywood epoxy glued together to finish at 18 mm or 3/4 inch .

Internal cleats are two layers of hardwood to finish at 42 x 42 or 1 1/2 + inches square.

There is also a triple laminated hardwood cleat that forms a sturdy bolting flange to bolt the whole thing onto the deck beams from below.
Epoxy glued , fillet and heavy biaxial tape , wet on wet.

 

 

The laminating of the panels was tedious because I had no bronze ring shank nails left and did not want to wait a week to get them sent.
They would have made things much easier and quick.

 

I pulled down the plywood with temp screws that needed to be filled after the epoxy had set .

Tedious.

 

Laminated rear panel .The motor board will be attached to this.

48 mm thick , or 1.9 inches approx.

 

 

 

I drilled some steel angle and cut slots to make a steel jack plate for the engine mount.

 

This is for fresh water use only so two coats of kill rust primer and two top coats of epoxy paint should be good.

 

 

 

Fixed part of the jack plate.
Engine board is five layers 9 mm ( 3/8 inch ) marine ply , 50 mm ( 2 inches ) thick .
35 ply . Strong.

 

 

 

 

 

Sliding ( slotted ) part will be attached with 12.5 mm ( half inch ) high tensile bolts .

Motor pod ( upside down here ) with jack plate attached.

[boat fan]

 

Motor pod sides glued together 2 x layers 9 mm Marine plywood.

 

 

3 layers of hardwood ( 3/4 inch or 19 mm each ) make up a strong bolt up flange to attach the motor pod to the under side of the decking.

 

 

Biaxial f/g tape strengthens the joint of the bolt up flange and pod sides.

 

 

 

And inside the internal bulkhead.

 

 

 

Outside corners.

 

 

 

[boat fan]

 

The entire thing was then covered with f/g cloth set in epoxy resin.

 

 

 

Some smaller details.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Epoxy lined drain holes.

 

 

To mount the whole mess , the under side of the rear deck was prepared by fitting 150 x 50 mm ( 2 x 6 ) blocking.

 

 

 

Position of the deck beams ( horizontal line at top ) marked out with chalk line.

The vertical lines mark the position of the blocking that will be fixed between.

3/4 inch flooring makes for handy bracing of the under floor structure and engine pod.

[boat fan]

 

 

All holes through the rear decking was epoxy lined to keep all water out of the end grain.

 

 

 

 

Hardwood cleats to brace blocking below the decking.

 

100 mm batten screws fix them in place.

 

 

 

 

Bolt up.

 

 

100 mm hot dipped galv. coach screws.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Motor mount and home built jack plate completed.

[boat fan]

 

Murraylands grapes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Big Carp.

 

[boat fan]

 

Eastern brown snake.

Second most venomous snake on the planet.

Good swimmers.

 

https://g.co/kgs/caXJ2

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baby hairy nosed wombat.

 

 

[Murflynn]

love the silver youkalipptus pic, it would make a great oil painting.

[boat fan]

love the silver youkalipptus pic, it would make a great oil painting.

 

 

 

Those are what we call Red River Gums Murflynn.

 

Beautiful hardwood.

 

 

Eucalyptus camaldulensis.

[W+T]

Dont know what i like best now, your boat build or your pics lol. All excellent, it takes this laptop a while to laod it all but worht the wait.

[boat fan]

Hello all ,

 

I did some more recycling today.

 

Found these in my travels to town today and could not pass them by.

 

Dirt cheap and the lead light glass was in perfect condition.

 

 

 

The only down side to this was the " ugly eighties " router work.

 

 

I took out the glass and cut away the entire ugliness with a straight cut router bit.

 

The new cut became the new rebate for the glazing bead , so the inside face of the door was turned around to become the outside of the door.

 

 

The back showing the rebate I cut for the glazing bead.

 

And here two before and after pictures.

 

 

 

These measure 860 mm high x 480 mm wide and will be a good size for some internal cabin cabinets.

 

I like giving old , no longer wanted things a new life.

Edited April 18, 2016 by boat fan

[WotEver]

I rather like the 'ugly 80's' look ?

[patty-ann]

Waiting for car to be serviced I've caught up on this thread...fab..D-I-Y boat build..makes me feel I could ave a go...

Car service wait tad boring but having had meaningful discussion over their perception of "time it'll take" for minor service I'm sitting put...they said 8 hours...they've now had change of mind following my reasonable(to me) comments. I thought best to wait in line of view...

However back to thread...

brilliant pics but dunno about the 8 legged arachnoid..wouldnt want her as house guest! but I love the other put together boats..fantastic..raised a smile!

really Aussie land creeping up on my agenda of places to go see...

 

Keep posting

thanks

Patty

[boat fan]

Waiting for car to be serviced I've caught up on this thread...fab..D-I-Y boat build..makes me feel I could ave a go...

Car service wait tad boring but having had meaningful discussion over their perception of "time it'll take" for minor service I'm sitting put...they said 8 hours...they've now had change of mind following my reasonable(to me) comments. I thought best to wait in line of view...

However back to thread...

brilliant pics but dunno about the 8 legged arachnoid..wouldnt want her as house guest! but I love the other put together boats..fantastic..raised a smile!

really Aussie land creeping up on my agenda of places to go see...

 

Keep posting

thanks

Patty

 

 

Always welcome here Patty !

 

Good call on the car service too .