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Tim Diebert

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  1. I was wondering the same thing Frank. Turns out there have been a rash of incidents at sea over the last week or so with some fierce weather in the southern lats. I found articles on several rescues, a dismasting etc etc. All cruisers. So I am guessing this chap was a victim of the same weather. It is all in the same basic area. I see another book coming out soon....
  2. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?ObjectID=10329439 and later... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?ObjectID=10329562
  3. Nice work. Getting exciting now eh? Sailing soon for that boat. Seems to me you have been smokin right along on your project.
  4. Looks like it was a perfect breeze for your day out.
  5. Man, when the kids are small it can be tough to get some play time for Dad. I didn't have a sailboat when my kids were small but I did have a 14' runabout with a 20hp merc and took the boys out boogie boarding whenever we could. We cruised around the lake camped and had picnics and went fishing. One of my guys ended up loving the water, is learning how to sail but the other is a geek His idea of a good time is sitting in front of the monitor. It is really quite amazing you got yourself out Konrad. Excellent. As Oyster says, it would be great to be able to keep a boat around of some kind and introduce your kids to the water life. I hope you can get out more yet this season.
  6. Too bad misus didn't have the camera ready whilst Mike was sitting at the tiller of his sailboat sailing on Saturday morning. Captains hat on, a serious but whimsical cock to the brow, pipe clenched firm and cat on the foredeck. Weve got to see that amazing piece of work on the water with lots of white cloth hard with wind.....a bone in her teeth. Get crackin lad. I just know the project will sail as good as it looks. Just look at that entry.... BTW, I have always thought of your boat as 'The Project'....do you have a name yet, and did I miss something again? Who started this thread....?..................uh, sorry Greg.
  7. Good info Barry. I rarely stay current with any of this stuff. I tend to keep up with curent finishing techniques in whatever aspect of my trade I am currently working in. Very little of the finishing tech used in guitarmaking can be transfered over to exterior boat finishes... ....but you never know. Oddly enough, I have always had opposite tastes between boat finishes and furniture. I like varnish or surface film on boats, and oil finishes on furniture. My personal guitars are all oil/wax finished and my boat is all varnish. Of course my client instruments are an over the top finish that is no fun at all. That water based UV included Varithane(Rustoleum) product....is that a fast drying thing? If it is, I would like to try some some time. I know I have never seen it in any local stores. I go south all the time so might look for some down there.....sounds like just the ticket.
  8. OK, thanks for the clarification Greg. Well, Teak is pretty much bullet proof for exterior use as far as my experience shows. I still believe if Teak is used on exterior fittings it shows good choice. It wears well enough and is one of (if not the only) species that can be left unfinished and not self destruct. I quite like the look of a nice even grey patina of a deck...even better when the king plank and/or the rail plank is oiled. No reason not to go to Mahogany, but use an African or Honduran species....not Phillipine. The African can be quite dark, the Honduran more of an orange brown. Personally, I would not stain an exterior mahog. Mahoganies tend to darken in time anyway, but the reason is that it becomes a finishing nightmare if you allow a your finish to degrade to the point of reaching the color layer. Then you are faced with colormatching (near impossible) or stripping back to bare wood and starting again. No reason to have to match the color to your interior Teak. And I agree, Teak inside a boat is best done as an accent on a sailboat...but large power boats have enough light so as not to over power. I have done many yacht interiors entirely in Teak and it looks amazing...specially back when we could get all Burmese material, it darkened so beautifully. For handrails I would almost certainly varnish them....specially if Mahog. Yes, if you wait a long time, you can varnish over oil. I have done it myself. For what you are talking about there would be no point. In my case it was for some furniture grade interior joinerwork. If you want your parts a tad darker, you can add some coloring to your varnish. Personally, most varnishes have a beautiful amber cast to them already and make most things glow so I would go that way. KISS principal. Get 5 or 6 initial coats on for the first season and 1 or 2 each season after that and it will look grand. Unless you are in Florida I would add that I think it is a very good idea to go to a good quality Mahog. Teak is like gold these days. Plus if you are working it yourself from rough stock, it is murder on any high speed steel blades. (jointer, planer, chisels etc) Hope this helps a little.
  9. Well, it is only the transportation safety folks saying the hull played a part, not the reason I would think. The boat looks well made and well designed....for the correct load. I have now seen the thing shored up. I also saw the window the fireman had to break to get the kids out. Yikes. Tom, I am with you there. I am sure there is an official rating, but when a vessel such as this is rented out to third party folks...who is there to make sure they know and follow the code? In the beginning I figured there had to be a pro skipper involved, but at this point I guess there was not. 18-22 year olds are not interested in anything but beer and partying. They were old enough to rent the thing and operate it.....but not smart enough to be safe I guess. And I agree, it is a very good thing.... in a weird way....that they were SO overloaded as to capsize only a few feet from the dock and a few feet from some pro rescue folks. If they were out on the lake, this may have ended up being added to the list of Canada's worst maritime disasters. I am a little shocked that this event has shown up on American TV news. It has led all the Canadian broadcasts since it happened. Both radio and tv. It will be weeks before everything is sorted out and we know what actually happened. Amen to that. Judgement is the word of the day around here.
  10. The linseed is fine, but it really never sets up. On a cleat, oil might be the way to go generally as it sees a lot of use. Personally, I would use a modern oil or any oil with some polymers in it. That way it actually eventually forms a surface film. My only problem with linseed is that is is forever attracting 'stuff'....dirt, rope fur, belly button lint, cat hair and the like. Always looks grody. I have used a Varithane product for 100 years. Flecto Plastic oil finish. In a gold/silver can...sold wherever there is Varithane stuff. A Tung base this one is I believe. Great for all kinds of stuff. Don't forget pix Greg. ....oh, and no reason you couldn't do a nice ship shape varnish job on there either. It will just wear off eventually and need refreshing now and again....but I personally like that distressed well used look. 8)
  11. Originally I was pissed thinking there was a hired skipper, but as it turns out it was a bare boat charter....so one of the kids was in 'charge' I presume. No doubt serious quantities of booze were ingested. Kelowna is party central. They are partly blaming the hull design now too. I saw an interview with a guy who owned another house boat exactly like it. He maxes his at 20! but usually no more than 10 people. The one that went down also had a full hot tub on the roof! :shock: :shock:
  12. Last night some damn fool let 60 young people fill up a house boat that was certified for 30. They hired the boat, and I assume hired a skipper. All employees of a local restaurant we eat at in Kelowna. Celebrating one of their friends birthdays. Less than a minute from the dock, the weight of people on the top deck capsized the boat. Right in the marina. While they were singing happy birthday. These people owe a lot to a group of folks having a beer after a soft ball game at Roses Bar and Grill. They were on the patio and saw it all happen. These were all Firemen. They jumped the rail and dove in, swam to the boat and started rescuing folks. 60 of them. 10 firefighters. Not a life jacket to be seen. There were several non swimmers in the group. One of the fireguys had to break a glass window, underwater, to let trapped people free. It was pandemonium in the dark. It took hours just to figure out if they had everybody.....and they still weren't sure until about 11 this morning when they sent police divers in there to search. Broken arms and legs, cold and shock. One young lady died. If that boat was even another 100 or 200 feet further out....there would have been more fatalities. If they had made it out into the lake (Okanogan Lake) they may have all died. 60 people. Young people 18 to 22. Because some idiot thinks he is a 'skipper' or something. Man I am pissed.....and sad.
  13. Getcher blue tarp and duct tape skills together and your off! Looks about ready for a dunk. Nice colors.
  14. I always thought the way the sticks stow on these boats was very cool for many reasons....but making a great ridge pole for a good tarp is high on the list. I can have that cover on or off in less than a minute. I buy a new tarp every year otherwise it won't keep the water out. Lately I have been holding down the sides of the tarp with old paint cans on the end of a short bungee. I had been doing some painting and wanted the water to run off to the ground rather than down the side of the boat. They worked so well I use them on both sides all the time. It might look a little white trash for some of our upwardly mobile 8) but it suits me, as it is quick as hell.....and I am white trash. Man, you are just not sailing it hard enough!
  15. Man. Poor bugger. Thanks for the link Oyster. I missed that one.
  16. Barry. Thayt is basically what I had in mind as well. But I would add one thought. I keep my boat next to the shop in basically the same spot all the time. This spot generates a slight list to stbrd, so that is the side of the cockpit sole that my drain will be on. Perhaps your storage area may have an advantageous side of the cockpit...? I have also bookmarked a particular drain unit that has a nice flush fitting plug. In Westmarine catalogue. Tom...you glued two through hulls into your boat? tdrown, this is also something I had considered. I don't know where you got your idea (presumably out of you own noodle), it seems to me that our late builder Graeme of Snoopy had posted some images of that exact setup. Very clever me thinks. For me, the downside would be the loss of that small angular area just under the bridge deck. I make very good use of that spot now and it would not be easy to give it up. :?
  17. I'd like to see that Frank.
  18. Craig....so you are helping our Tomstock finish his boat? Did I miss something? Good on you man. I just kind of figured out you are both in the same state.....duh.
  19. Maybe you could just cobble up a 2X4 ridge pole with some saw horse type legs down to the decks. Once your sticks are done, they make for a terrific ridge pole to throw a tarp over. I have to put a drain in my cockpit as well, just to be able to wash the boat down without bailing....
  20. Here are some damge images and some current info on the Irving Johnson. http://www.woodenboat-ubb.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=003961
  21. Don't you hate it when that happens. That is why it is nice to have too much sail now and again...for those light days. Something I too am working on. I shared one area of my lake with a Thistle one evening a couple of years ago. Talk about too much sail. :shock: http://www.sailingtexas.com/sthistlec.html There was almost no wind....a breath...I was doing nothing and this guy was all over the area. Super light boat with 200+ square feet of sail will do it every time. There was not a single reef point on that sail either.... I did sail with this chap a few weeks later...on my boat....and he was revelling in how relaxing it was. He also told me about the time he got blown to the extreme south end and up onto the beach because he could not control the boat in any point of sail but dead downhill...it was blowing pretty hard he said...and could not round up or the boat would go over. He needed some heavy friends to sail with him I guess. I keep my heavy friends locked in a box on my cabin sole....soon to be liberated to a lower point under the boat. It looked pretty cool the way that boat slipped along at 3-4 knots in barely a ripple....but I am sure things become pretty interesting when the breeze freshens to a level where I am just starting to have fun, he is trying not to get dumped or have a heart attack.
  22. Thanks for the link Bill. Some super shots in there. Too bad about the weather but it looked warm enough. I enjoyed the pics and thanks for going to the trouble. I posted the link to two other groups.
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