Saving Old Seagulls

Or is the motor on the wrong end?

... "Robs boat looks a bit short"
Well, you see, I was impressed by the towability and load carrying of the Tasmanian Piners Punts, but I only had 2 sheets of 8' x 4' x 4mm plywood - Green Pea is the largest clinker, rowing/sailing/Seagulling boat I could make on the lines of the Piners Punts. It's registered as 2.350 metres in length, and licensed to carry a maximum of 2.

what sort of boats do we all go out to sea in ? One goes out in a paddling pool and another one in a gift from a cereal packet. Is everyone braver than they should be.
At least we wear life jackets. As my first wife would have said "Blue and green - I don,t think so !"

Skytoys - you're quite amusing . . .

But you still havn't explained your Century long shaft c1961 on a crescent 42 c1980 !!

Some of us are not as au fait with elderly outboards as expected -


ps what is the present wife count?

http://www.holmisdale.co.uk/Family_pictures/IMAG013.JPG

1961 Century long shaft LLS18258L (now fitted with depth adjusting collar) at the blunt end . crescent 42 (13' 8" similar to arran 14) built in 1980 Sweden on trailer
Max 9hp and 5 people but launchable single handed. Although for one very short journey have had 8 people and a dog in it plus fishing gear . when their mercury broke down on an outboard.

2nd try at picture

10 out 0f 10 to Skyman, I've nearly choked on my dinner as I read the latest posts, even RBT hasn't insulted my vessel, "paddling pool indeed".
You guys kill me. RBT, indeed I should've got a boat with a pointed end, but a boat with a pointed end was costing more than my lovely wife would allow me to spend, so here I am landed with a paddling pool with a round end. By next year I'm going to have a real toy with a pointed end, made of wood or fibre glass.
The main thing is I will be on the water this summer with my pp and my Seagull.

RBT, sorry to say I won't be at the gathering, as much as I wanted to. You see, like most married men I know my place, and HID has just bought a pup, Cavalier King Charles Spaniel (getting on Friday), plus I'm going to the Ryder Cup in September so the pennies are counted. I had been planning on coming down to meet you all, but it's just not possible unfortunately. Maybe next time.

Gerard

Skytoys - so the Crescent is a boat.
- sounded like a Crescent (outboard) leg conversion on a Century. As Yamaha leg or Featherweight box used in other versions.

I thought the 'www.Family_ pictures' was going to show the Family Tree . . .

Toy bloke it looks like my Yellow boat, good swedish sea boat. Here is a pic when it was parked outside your house RBT.

It is behind Tea Bag

If you click on tha picture you will get a bigger view.

H-A

P.S. RBT have you found the bit that fell off my boat yet?

Gerard, I'm worried about your concentration levels.
Have you not seen RIBs or pics of them with the side tubes ending - at the back - in points which extend beyond the transom.
I even have one, as a tender, it just fits two adults and medium dog with one small Tohatsu.
I didn't even realise that a round(ish) inflatable up boat was made except for small children to get washed out to sea from the beach.

Do you understand what I'm saying. The inflatable RIB front is fairly round and the back has two extended points.
You don't need a wood boat for your purposes but you do appear to have chosen an inflatable with a suspect shape. Possibly. You havn't tried it yet!! It might be superb.

Maybe a kindly erudite gentleman would care to try our newly discovered easy pic download route and illustrate to Gerard what a small RIB looks like.

Anorak - if it was just ferrous iron I would trawl up and down with a bloody big magnet.
But underwater diving with the unlikelyhood of spying something glinting in the murk is not on the cards . . .

Whilst not a RIB the Metzeler will give you the idea. It is about thirty years old.

You have seen the clip before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9UswYi1SgA

Strangely enough it rows really well.

well RBT ...
only right and proper ...
though after a few session with Ms Scoggs could you really tell the difference ?

HA ...
many thanks for showing the ill-educated / uninitiated, what a REAL (albeit small) sailing vessel looks like ...