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Amazing. This makes my attempts at putting bikes together feel somehow...insignificant. good luck with it!
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Massive project but will be amazing when you finish! Good luck and keep the motivation going!
I think massive project is an understatement! Every time we take something off, or open up a new part of the boat, we discover more work, that we weren't expecting! We didn't quite expect it to be this huge when we took her on, but it's still worth it. The great thing about this hull construction is how easy it is to repair, so t the moment, the gaping holes look far more daunting than they should!
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Best thread I've seen on here in years.
Well done lads!
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Best of luck to you!
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Thanks for all the positivity.
Fiber hull? Or what?
The hull is ferro-cement. Basically steel reinforced concrete. Not a particularly common construction technique anymore, but was quite popular in the eighties, when she was first built. If it's done right, it's very strong and resilient. It's also quite quick to repair, but there is very little margin for error, when preparing the damaged area, and re-rendering the hull. Hopefully the hull repairs should be completed in the next week or two, and we should know pretty much straight away if the repair has been a success. After the hole is patched, we will be sheathing the hull, below the waterline, in a layer of epoxy fibre glass, which will add extra strength to the hull, and waterproof the concrete.
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Awesome project.
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Great project a hell of a lot of work though good you plan to sail a good distance in it makes is worth it
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Annelis. Not strictly a bike, but definitely a project.
Posted by
@Sam_Doman
Some of you might be familiar with my sailing exploits, and woodwork/boatbuilding background. Well, about a year ago, a friend and I took on a 40ft ferro-cement ketch, which had been abandoned on 'derelict row' in a local boatyard, as a restoration project. The steel ballast in the hull had rusted, and expand, cracking the hull, which is a huge job to repair, and meant the boat wasn't worth repairing commercially, hence sitting in the yard for the past 7 years. We have stripped out all of the old ballast, are in the process of repairing the hull, and will be setting new ballast when she's intact again.
She is going to need a complete re-fit once the hull repairs are made, re-decking, and all of the spars had been left to rot, so we will be re-making all of them from scratch too. It's not a small task, but the two of us are working hard on her, and we're hoping to have her afloat again by next summer. I have been keeping a blog thing, which I'm going to try to keep up to date, as we make progress. The plan is to take her across to the Caribbean in Autumn 2015, if she's in a safe state by then, and then in to Central America, and down the coast of South America, to Patagonia.
This is what she looks like in the water (this photo is about 7 or 8 years old, I think)
http://38.media.tumblr.com/395a120a0440dc307a09d3182c85686f/tumblr_ms42noNYiD1sgwna9o3_500.jpg
This is what she looked like when we took on the project
http://38.media.tumblr.com/2a26ff2d377cf540fb7bef9d81e19afa/tumblr_ms7rrwmjhc1sgwna9o5_1280.jpg
http://38.media.tumblr.com/44ea0fe67b9a4bdf46c39f49c09f57f2/tumblr_ms430sfc4J1sgwna9o4_1280.jpg
We spent months removing the old ballast (steel set in concrete)
http://38.media.tumblr.com/6ff6c5bcd9c91fbdcca2c7709835e5bd/tumblr_ms7rrwmjhc1sgwna9o6_1280.jpg
http://33.media.tumblr.com/c42f7efd3dfeb55c5b49b3f7be134177/tumblr_mtyi56Led81sgwna9o1_500.jpg
We have removed the old deck
http://33.media.tumblr.com/835efc37ea24624a6a62a00067e639c9/tumblr_mv1jicbTyH1sgwna9o6_1280.jpg
We have overhauled the engine
http://31.media.tumblr.com/66056c6bd54c8900caaee3ca40bfb3f5/tumblr_mv1lbttekV1sgwna9o2_250.jpg
http://38.media.tumblr.com/54aae165cf9f108d567bc0a2a68c1d41/tumblr_n9kitehVOL1sgwna9o2_250.jpg
And we're in the process of repairing the hull at the moment.
http://37.media.tumblr.com/90cddf0201c34053e50a05a11b7b7dff/tumblr_n9kj5nNQlu1sgwna9o9_1280.jpg
There's a hell of a lot of work to do, but we've reached the low point of the project, and are now rebuilding her and putting material back in, which is a nice feeling. I'll Keep this blog updated, throughout the project: http://ketch-annelis.tumblr.com, and I'll update this thread every so often.