Stone Form veneer samples

Seen here there are a large selection of textures and colours to choose from.

The panels can be pre mounted onto Deluxe Light Ply at the factory, or by your local
shopfitter.

This selection shows only nine shades, we have samples of  sixteen in our office, more may be added at a later stage.

Roy
 

Stone Form veneer bullnose section

This takes imagination!

They look like they have been processed with a Post Form machine?

Suitable for tops, doors or shelves.

Roy

Stone Form on a bath surround

Ideas like this look so neat!

We have a very complete fixing and use manual, suitable for home or proffesional use.

Stone Form (tm) on walls and flat surfaces

Check the colours, thats real stone your looking at!

At this time we can offer as a special order, later we will hold stocks.

Roy

Dix Design releases the new Cape May 25

We developed the lapstrake plywood Cape May 25 from the Cape Cutter 19, a GRP trailer sailer that became popular in a short time and sold 70 boats in its first 2 years in the UK market. The 19 proved to be a boat that is full of character, able and seaworthy, with a surprising turn of speed. Well over 100 have been built in GRP and we have sold plans for another 60 boats to be built in plywood by amateurs.

We followed that design with the Cape Henry 21, a slightly bigger sister that still fitted within standard towing width in most countries but offered a bit more space and comfort for a small family. We have sold more than 70 of them for building in plywood by amateurs. There have followed many requests for other sizes within this same concept. I have been working on a 32ft version, the Cape Charles 32, which will happen when time allows and which will make a great cruiser for the Bahamas, Caribbean and similar areas with limited depth.

The Cape May 25 is an intermediate design, with more space than the smaller sisters but still intended for a small family of Mom, Dad and two kids. My client is nearly 2m tall, so extra long berths were a must. The foreward berths are 2.2m long and have plenty of foot room for two people. I kept it as one very big double berth rather than making a pair of V-berths so that it will have masses of storage under it for sails and gear, with space left over for a water tank and holding tank if needed. The rope locker in the bow adds to this stowage space and the bulkhead also serves as a crash bulkhead.

Cape May 25 kits will be available soon from CKD Boats cc shortly.

For more info on the boat please view the file below.

http://dudleydix.blogspot.com/2013/05/cape-may-25-trailable-gaff-cutter.html

With the Rand exchange rate to most other currencies right now our prices look really competitive!

Roy.

Introducing Stone Form a flexible stone veneer sheeting

Yes, thats correct a sheet of stone that will flex!

Dont ask me how, its a new idea and samples will be with me soon, made of a 2mm sheet sized 600mm x 1200mm and on a glass fibre backer.

Central display planter.

You should note Stone form has multiple usages, DIY, kitchen and general door infills,  back drops, furniture, columns, bathroom, flooring (light traffic) etc etc just need imagination...  (I do not recommend for kitchen tops)

Bath surround facing.

Samples will be here soon, we have a full package as info sheets and pictures of it in use available right now.

Many types on offer.

TNT have just delivered the samples, what can I say, its amazing stuff!

Roy

Cape Cutter 19, the 316 stainless steel deck package.

This one is now ready to ship to the customer in Sweden, in recent years we have done similar kits for the Cape Henry 21 as well.

With a similar stainless steel package sent to Seattle,USA, last year we are about to ship some extras to the customer next week as well.

Local prices and quality are good, plus with the lower Rand currency your prices are now even better!

Roy

The Proteus 106 sailing catamaran

Still remarkable value at around R200,000 only, with the Rands value at a four year low this is a great deal! Thats only U$20,833 right now and we include the epoxy in that price!

Vat will apply on the kit when supplied locally, not to exports.


Plans are extra and available from the designer direct, the cost is NZ$4500.

http://www.ckdboats.com/proteus10.html

Proteus 10.6m Sailing Catamaran


This Lavranos Marine Design is a perfect small family ocean cruising cat. It is designed to offer a sufficient load carrying capacity to do ocean crossings with a family, at low cost and capable of amateur construction with a minimum amount of labour and skill. This simple, strong, fast, comfortable and cheap boat is also aimed at being practical & enjoyable for local use. She is also small enough for easy shorthanded use.

The interior consists of four berths

(two doubles + 2 singles), a saloon settee, a practical galley, and a toilet compartment, all with standing headroom.

She is configured with two machinery and keel variations; A 4 stroke 20HP outboard on a hinging nacelle is fitted for economy, as is tiller steering, with "kick up" rudders. The other choice is that a saildrive "single cylinder baby diesel" can be fitted, as can fixed mini keels.

The rig is the simplest possible, with a pair of cap shrouds and headstay triangulated, single diamond. The sail inventory is essentially a mainsail, a roller furler jib, and a storm jib. Optional: Genneker.

Fast Forward returns home to Hout Bay

This was one of those boats that was meant to go places, which it sure did!

They arrived back yesterday after a ten year circumnavigation.

Just one more look, this is Ken looking back at Hout Bay and in March 2003.

http://hbycclub.blogspot.com/

Check the link to find the info on the boat.

Yesterday and tied up after a trip down South Africas east coast.

This picture by R McBride

Roy

Rowing oars, made in Cape Town

One of the companies we supply makes a fine rowing oar from  American white Poplar, they look and work well and the Poplar is clear and a similar weight to clear Oregon Pine.

Glued up and ready for finishing.

Finished and ready for clear lacquer.

Sizes are the standard 6ft, 7ft and 8ft with specials to order as none are kept as a stock item.

Roy

Frank Hornby is remembered, born May 15th 1863 (r.i.p)

I did an entry on this amazing man some years back, then a few days back I noticed that that entry had moved to the number one in views very recently, why, I thought it was related to his death and this turned out to be correct.

I grew up in Maghull, Merseyside, Lancashire and only recentyly I walked past Franks grave in the local church on my way to see my mother in a care home close by.

The guy in the picture is my old friend from camping club youth days, Les French, he had told me he was involved in the Frank Hornby group. Picture and words below are taken from the Liverpool Echo, my thanks to them.

Maghull Art Group Exhibition is involved with the town’s Maghull Hornby Festival which takes place this weekend, May 18 and 19.


An image of Frank Hornby by group member Bob Joy will be among those on display at the exhibition.

Maghull Art Group will also be showing off their work at its spring exhibition which will form part of the Hornby Festival.

It takes place at Deyes High School between 10.30am and 5pm on both days and pictures will be available for purchase.

Frank Hornby’s 150th birthday marked on Google’s UK homepage

The Google Doodle - a stylised Google logo - in honour of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Frank Hornby

Head to Google.co.uk today and you’ll see a Google Doodle made up of toy trains to honour what would have been the 150th birthday of Frank Hornby, the inventor of Hornby Model Railways, Meccano and Dinky Toys.

Despite having no formal training in the subject, Hornby created and produced three of the most popular engineering-based toys of the 20th century.

Seen as a toy visionary, Hornby first patented his Meccano construction set of re-usable metal strips, plates, angle girders, wheels, axles, gears, nuts and bolts in 1901, though at that time he called it Mechanics Made Easy.

He established Meccano Ltd in 1908, which went on to produce the die-cast miniature model cars and trucks that made up Dinky Toys in the Thirties. The company also produced the Hornby Railways model train sets.

Hornby’s birthday will be celebrated through a four-day festival in Liverpool, where he was born. The Hornby festival will include a play, a lecture at the Museum of Liverpool, and an exhibition dedicated to the toymaker, while elsewhere in England Frank Hornby Week was launched on Monday at Brighton Toy and Model Museum.


Yes, I was one of those kids who grew up building things with Meccano, only then I never knew the inventor lived within walking distance from my home!

Roy

More on the subject can be found here http://www.liverpoolconfidential.co.uk/News-and-Comment/A-Google-Doodle-for-Frank-Hornby

A whale seen in Hout Bay last week

Not only in the bay but in the harbour!

This is nothing new but when we saw lots of power boats around it we thought it was dead and they were towing it out. As whales as common place but from around September each year where we live, it was a surprise to see one this early in the year.

With the whale taken out of the harbour and then tied off to the HBYC beach marker bouy, we were then informed that the council would later come out and remove it, they have a disposal unit for this kind of work they said.

A day later and the whale was still there, same again the next day, so it was not dead?

Seems it was never alive either, it was a prop for a very large film shoot done in and around the Hout Bay Harbour!

Roy

Gregs strip planked Oppikat

With this design we supplied just the CNC bulkheads and used the regular postal service between the RSA and USA, this was really cost effective. The design is by Dudley Dix and was drawn as an easy to build sail training small catamaran. There are some 15 bulkheads per hull, when cut with a CNC machine from okoume marine ply they are easy to set up.

Greg has built his hulls together but you can also do one at a time and on a narrow bench or shelf, as long as you can reach to the side furthest away from you.

Roy.

Initial fairing with the hand plane about 1/2 done.

 

 

I ended up with a little funkiness at the bows as I didn't quite strip it right(first time strip-planked and all) - but the kid wants it painted anyway.  So I should be able to fix it up.  Or not.

 

Greg

 

The Quick Canoe 155, a throw away boat?

Thats one idea but I suspect you will fall in love with it and keep it forever!

Picture and text from the designers web site. We have the plans ready for you now, just pay to our Pay Pal
account at roy (at) ckdboats.com and we will send you a PDF of the plans by return.

QUICK CANOE 155 – A simple plywood canoe – Plans $30

Roy


The plywood “disposable” canoe (see here) has been renamed the more salubrious “Quick Canoe”.  I quite liked the name of “Disposable Canoe” but I agreed with the critique that it hinted at something that was poor quality rather than simple and Easy.  It could have been the EasyCanoe, but that name was already taken.
The photo below shows two a group of us built in France immediately before paddling and camping our way down the Loire River for a week.

It fills a gap that our classic Eureka plywood Canoe doesn’t cover.  The Eureka is a pretty canoe that is easy to build and paddles very nicely.  It builds quickly over a couple of weeks if you can work full time, but with the Quick Canoe we were thinking of something possible to whack together in a weekend.
The Quick Canoe series has been designed to be as easy to build as possible while keeping some of the qualities of a good paddling canoe – in particular the ability to track.  It is not designed to be the BEST canoe, but the SIMPLEST plywood canoe that was FASTEST to build without being too bad on the water rather than going the best paddling  canoe we could do as represented by the Eureka.

The JoLon Imp Route

The original route was via Italy, that was not possible, so a 12,000 Kms drive became 14,000 Kms and that excluded the ferry to Turkey and across the English Channel.

My thanks to Justin Phillips for re drawing the original map. His new one will be used at the summers Imp Club exhibitions in the UK for the rest of the year.

Arrival at the camping site in Coventry, it was by then 6.20am and the Imp Club sent a suitable collection of Imps out to meet the guys, about twelve cars in all!

Roy