A Boat for the the mighty Plus or the Titanic part Two
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 2:23 pm
I own a 23 foot dory and enjoy it and sail it quite a bit. i even bought it its own 102, because the motor well was to small to allow the mighty 11 inch prop of the plus to enter, with out rebuilding.
Its commented on, every time its on a boat ramp. That's one of the joys of owning a seagull boat. Everyone wants to look and ask, or tell a story, when i was younger it used to annoy me a bit cause i wanted to get something done or fish. Now is part of the trip. And its brought me friends and bits of motors, old spares and now another boat, a half brother for the Minnow. wife named the dory after the boat on Gilligan's island.
Well a few weeks back i way out in the boat with the wife, me sailing her knitting, and when we returned, she went to back the trailer in for me to run the boat onto it. That's an advantage of a big flat bottom boat you motor onto the trailer and just tow it out. Pisses of everyone else on the ramp, and you hear the wives and girlfriends say "why cant you do that with your boat?"
Make my wife proud. And an old chap came out to me with his grand kids and asked if the kids could have a look at the boat. We chatted and he told me ha had a dory allmost the same as mine but it was beyond him now and it had been sitting in the back for a while now.His late wife had sailed and he kept it for her. So i loaded him and the kids in the boat and we went for a short run.
Monday i get a call from his son saying dad had a wonderful time and would we like to pop round he had some old boat stuff he wasn't going to use anymore.His mother died 10 years ago and it was just sitting were it was left parked under a tree.
When i arrived, he took me to the garage and showed me on old 8 hp Mariner, made about 1972 even older than mine. But that wasn't the best under the trees looking very said was a 20 foot dory, the same shape and style as mine. He told me that in the 70's an Australia boat magazine had published plans to a series of Grand Banks style dories and he had build with his late brother.
His brother had the motor and the sail rigging was never finished.
Well you know how this go's I was so sad there i had to take in, and as i have a trailer that fits on there was no option.
The woodwork isn't good but it not hopeless, but the motor well is rotten and so is most of the stern, so im thinking of building anew plywood transom just infront of the existing well and just cutting it away. Leaving a flat stern. Suitable for mounting one or multiple seagulls. Maybe a 102+ and a 102 as an axillary.
So if you have any ideas or thought on the transom design and anything else for the Minnow 2 join in. Hang on i now have a 20 foot boat, thats the racing class. oh god no.
So as you can see there is a lot to do, but i think it might be worth the trouble, So if you have any ideas or advice, chime in. And yes i have already been offered a can of petrol and a box of matches by the plumber next door. But he did make me a nice new water pipe for the plus, so he gets one free one.
Its commented on, every time its on a boat ramp. That's one of the joys of owning a seagull boat. Everyone wants to look and ask, or tell a story, when i was younger it used to annoy me a bit cause i wanted to get something done or fish. Now is part of the trip. And its brought me friends and bits of motors, old spares and now another boat, a half brother for the Minnow. wife named the dory after the boat on Gilligan's island.
Well a few weeks back i way out in the boat with the wife, me sailing her knitting, and when we returned, she went to back the trailer in for me to run the boat onto it. That's an advantage of a big flat bottom boat you motor onto the trailer and just tow it out. Pisses of everyone else on the ramp, and you hear the wives and girlfriends say "why cant you do that with your boat?"
Make my wife proud. And an old chap came out to me with his grand kids and asked if the kids could have a look at the boat. We chatted and he told me ha had a dory allmost the same as mine but it was beyond him now and it had been sitting in the back for a while now.His late wife had sailed and he kept it for her. So i loaded him and the kids in the boat and we went for a short run.
Monday i get a call from his son saying dad had a wonderful time and would we like to pop round he had some old boat stuff he wasn't going to use anymore.His mother died 10 years ago and it was just sitting were it was left parked under a tree.
When i arrived, he took me to the garage and showed me on old 8 hp Mariner, made about 1972 even older than mine. But that wasn't the best under the trees looking very said was a 20 foot dory, the same shape and style as mine. He told me that in the 70's an Australia boat magazine had published plans to a series of Grand Banks style dories and he had build with his late brother.
His brother had the motor and the sail rigging was never finished.
Well you know how this go's I was so sad there i had to take in, and as i have a trailer that fits on there was no option.
The woodwork isn't good but it not hopeless, but the motor well is rotten and so is most of the stern, so im thinking of building anew plywood transom just infront of the existing well and just cutting it away. Leaving a flat stern. Suitable for mounting one or multiple seagulls. Maybe a 102+ and a 102 as an axillary.
So if you have any ideas or thought on the transom design and anything else for the Minnow 2 join in. Hang on i now have a 20 foot boat, thats the racing class. oh god no.
So as you can see there is a lot to do, but i think it might be worth the trouble, So if you have any ideas or advice, chime in. And yes i have already been offered a can of petrol and a box of matches by the plumber next door. But he did make me a nice new water pipe for the plus, so he gets one free one.