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Post by godfrey on Jan 31, 2012 17:29:56 GMT
Last summer, certain persons who shall remain nameless, twisted my arm to store the mystery Chatham Moth in me Mum's shed where it remains.
Has this fallen totally off the radar?
Is there any plan or discussion in the background as to what is to be done with it? Would the Association like me to work on it and to what end? Being planked construction and ancient, any repairs are likely to be obvious, even using materials of the correct type. Should it be repaired/rebuilt and to what extent?
Please discuss among yourselves and perhaps we'll have a chat at Ally Pally.
Goffo
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Post by pegasus on Jan 31, 2012 20:31:59 GMT
Goffo
I was wondering what had happened. I volunteered back in June last year and the last I heard was you were looking after it. I even think Steve Sergeant was seeing what could be done. It is certainly not off my radar. Could this even be a summer project for someone?
Simon
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Post by abby on Jan 31, 2012 22:30:24 GMT
I dont think I twisted arms, I just said that we could not store it at SESCA any longer and if no one was interested in doing something with it, it would make a nice bonfire at the SESCA Mid Summer Madness. I think Goffo volunteered to store it and I thought work on it with Steve and Simon Hall were saying they would be involved, so we dropped it with Goffos Mum ¿thank you to her and to Godfrey? and left it in all your capable hands. I thought the general idea was to restore it suitably to interest a museum, that it would never make it back on the water and that perhaps the Association could contribute to modest costs. Sorry for odd punctuation I am on a Spanish keyboard in La Paz. Will be back in time for Ally Pally so you can all yell at me there if you like. Abby
PS Webmasters, I seem to still show up listed on the forum as Class Secretary......please can you fix this. Cheers
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Post by godfrey on Feb 1, 2012 16:21:29 GMT
There's quite a lot of rot and other damage. The case is totally rotten at the bottom but I've got some suitable mahogany to reconstruct that. The state of the skin is not clever but I could, again, sort out some strip planking.......
But why indeed should'nt she sail again?
Doing it of course. is one thing but creating it "in period" is a lot more tricky. The decks supplied with it (loose) are, themselves, plywood of uncertain vintage,-presumable post-war. Who can advise technically, what should be used?
And then there's the rig.......
Bamboo, cotton, hemp,- all that crap! I'm not sure even what dinghy fittings were available off the shelf in 1930-something.
Whatever happens, I dont want to see her/it go the same way as Anne (No2) which sat in the rowing shed at Broxbourne until someone made the executive desision that it was too difficult to restore and scrapped it.
Would someone be happy to take it on if the shell was viable,- i.e. watertight and solid? I boldly assume that no-one is going to object to the use of epoxy glues on historical grounds!
Anyway, all food for thought.....
GGG
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Post by enigma on Feb 1, 2012 16:39:35 GMT
I hope this doesnt muddy the water BUT my mother had ANNE at maidsone sailing club ,it was No 1 0n the sail .If i remember correctly she passed it onto some one at Hoo sailing club,this near Chatham,so you might have no 1 there.
I would have like a shot,I already have the remnants of Charlie Reeves "enigma",One more to do up would be no trouble.When I sailed no 1 at RCPYC at Dover in the sea there she went like a train,She was a bit longer than 11ft,nice an heavy with her panked hull and the fibreglass skin the my father put on the hull Robin Boyes
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