Primus and Optimus stove spares in South Africa

Funny, I had some genuine burners from my dads camping days and gave them away to a cruising boat a few years back, now we have the Taylor 030L stove to service I need those spares!

http://ckdboats.blogspot.com/2013/08/taylors-030l-three-burner-paraffin-stove.html

As it turned out spares are available but from  places like the UK, with postal charges and a very poor exchange rate I baulked at placing the order.

The stove will be fitted with new burner parts as supplied by Chris who actually owns this rather nice Taylors 030L stove, the largest of their range and made to order and with a six week waiting period too. This one is only ten years old, I think the oven has never been lit, with about seven years of probable service so far, the stove is in fine condition.

Made in Portugal but the original thing, this is the so called 'Silent' burner.

The brand name is Patria but were supplied as genuine parts on many paraffin stoves.

 This burner is used and it looked quite different when it arrived!

Fitted with a new jet and needle for jet cleaning, once it was  bead blasted it looked new again.

We also now have some paraffin pressure lamp parts, suitable for a 350CP (candle power) lamp and as made by Petromax,  Britelyt, Hipolite, we have the #68 cleaning needle and Pump valve and washer.

Who wants them?

Roy

How to make Kye, is it a traditional Liverpool drink?

This came in today and reminds me when I used to ask my mother for a Connie Onnie buttie, which is bread and butter and a condensed milk filling!

Roy

From: "margaret greer" <margogreer1@msn.com> 
Subject: [ENG-LIV] Connie- onnie sandwiches 
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:39:59 +0100

Or known in Liverpool as connie-onnie butties. Condensed milk, used during WW2. Fresh milk was scarce unless you owned a cow. Many people spread it on bread to make a sandwich, it tasted very nice and we kids used it as a substitute for sweets. My mother-in-law apparently ate it all the time whilst she was pregnant and my husband weighed 11lbs.

I also remember special margarine which was disgusting and dried eggs. Everything was rationed. My grandchildren don't believe me when I tell them what we DIDN'T have.

MargaretGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

 

Below is a recipe from Chris, a merchant seaman, it sort of fits in with the connie onnie buttie!

 

Instead of drinking beer how about brewing up some traditional 'kye' during cold winter days.

 

1. Break a small bar of plain dark chocolate into pieces ( or use Bournville powdered cocoa ).

2. Place pieces in a saucepan with one mug of hot water.

3. Heat up until the chocolate has melted.

4. Add one tin of condensed milk.

5. Bring to the boil and serve in mugs.

6. Add sugar to taste.

 

I came across kye when sailing with Safmarine. Our usual port of call was Southampton. However the dockers were full of crap so the line decided to discharge in Liverpool instead. I was a cadet and when the pilot came on board he wanted kye instead of tea or coffee. Fortunately the radio officer was a 'Scouser' so he knew the recipe.

 

Best

 

Chris

(Durban, South Africa)

The North West passage is not melting

Blog readers, check this out!

 

Roy

Hi Roy,

 

You may be interested in this from Ian Allen, with some stuff from DD on the North West Passage and Ice, it seems to put paid to the global warming theory being caused by us?

 

Notty.

 

 

Notty in Hout Bay about two years back instructing his grandson on the art of steering by compass. We had an ice free day too!

 

NW Passage not melting

I read this very interesting article sent to me by yacht designing mate Dudley Dix and then perused some of the gorgeously eccentric little boats busy trying to find a way round. I shall spend more time on that particular site tomorrow, since it is pretty extensive but full of interesting goodies. Scott Cowper is still at it I see. I met him in 1984 in the Caribbean and he seemed such a nice, quiet and unassuming bloke going around the world in a lifeboat with a Gardner diesel in it. This is all very different. We also had a Kiwi bloke stay with us who had sailed to the Arctic and previously also Antarctica on a steel British yacht and written a book about it called 'Poles apart in Northanger' - a wonderful title.

  But this just shows you that the most assertive and gloomy recent predictions by guys like Paul Beckwith of The Sierra Club in Canada couldn't possibly have been more wrong. Our efforts to get nature sussed often seem so futile and she does what she does whilst flashing us the finger at times.

Cheers,

Ian

 

Ian and Paula Allen ian.allen@xtra.co.nz
The Gables info@thegables.co.nz
Web Site www.thegables.co.nz
Tel / Fax 64 3 5736772

 

Hi Ian,

 

You may have seen this already, it is last week's news. A story to confuse the scientists once again. The NW Passage is not thawing the way that it has been forecast to do, so boats may be trapped in the NW Passage this year. Look at the crazy list of boats that are attempting the passage or intended to but have cancelled. Includes two rowing boats and a double kayak. And my surfer pals think that I am crazy to sail across the Atlantic? Slowest ice melt on record (looks like 34 years of records).

 

The weather gurus forecast this hurricane to be worse than average. Thus far it is way below normal, with no hurricanes and only 6 tropical storms. Our summer has been pretty cool, with only a few days above average and most below average. This morning our lake was steaming, which doesn't normally happen until into autumn.

 

DD

www.dixdesign.com

USA

 

http://www.sail-world.com/cruising/index.cfm?nid=113360&rid=11

 

http://northwestpassage2013.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-arctic-tipping-point-of-2013-50.html

Cape to Rio race boat

I am pleased to advise that after a recommendation  to the owner who may want to buy this fine boat, he has agreed and the boat is now sold!

Roy

Well it can be if you buy it! (too late)

Built from one of our boat kits, this Didi 34 is known for her performance and moves well, she would be happy in a tactical down wind race like the Cape to Rio.

 

Click on the pictures to enlarge them.

This boat is 34 feet long and weighs under four tons, with an empty weight she has a fifty percent ballast ratio, that makes for a comfortable ride.

 

Contact me for the boats inventory and price.

 

Roy

 

How to remove a dip stick tube from a Jaguar 3.8 XK engine

This is a subject I could not find anywhere on the web, I suppose its not often that an owner of a circa 1966 Jaguar, maybe the 3.4ltr or 3.8ltr, even the 4.2ltr engine finds that the dip stick will not come out of its tube into the lower side of the block?

 

Click on any picture for a larger image, which shows a Jaguar dip stick in one piece and also in two pieces and with the tube that fits to the side of the engine block. The cross bar it a pipe flaring tube.

In the case of the engine I was working on, the dip stick broke off about four years back when it became stuck, how to remove the tube it fits into was the question. Since then I just changed the oil every so often, the engine uses very little oil, so this was not an issue.

With the rear exhaust manifold in the way there is virtually no space to work in and while vice grips may do the job, they will be too large to fit in the space where the tube fits. I instead used a copper pipe flaring tool, the thought that I may squash the tube came to mind but its very thick walled and that was not an issue. I found I could move the tube from side to side, then as I did that and pulled on the tool, the pipe finally came out and with it the lower end of the dip stick!

 

The tube is made from two parts, the top cone being brazed onto the actual tube.

Why the dip stick tube was bent is a question for another day, the thing was could I remove it?

The tube is hand made and has been machined down to fit the block.

When straightened in a vice I found the spare dip stick would still not quite slide through the tube, using a 7mm drill bit and electric power drill sorted that problem out.

How hard was that!

Roy

 

Looking for David (dave) Hassell

I did eventually find Dave, alive and well living in the Chester UK area, he was on Facebook.

Dave was a great friend of mine, some years after I emigrated to South Africa he followed me.
At that time Dave lived with his parents and brother at Speke, Liverpool and not that far from the Ford car plant where they used to make the Ford Anglia.

We both went to the Liverpool College of  Building and managed to pass the exam for Carpentry and Joinery with a distinction in the last year, that will have been around 1967?

Dave liked motor bikes as much as cars,he had a Yamaha 250 before the Triumph 500, then moved on to the Triumph 650 Bonniville, what a performer!

Click on the picture for a larger view.

Photo taken in Maghull, Merseyside by Robert Henry McBride.

The letter B on the registration plate tells me this was a 1964 bike, Dave bought his bikes new, he will have been about 18 back then. The whisky bottle was a bit of an odd one, Dave never drank the stuff as I can remember?

Dave later bought an MG 1100, based on the Morris or Austin version but with twin carburetors and better trim.  Dave later bought a brand new metalic gold Sunbeam Stiletto 875cc, the company named Kirbys in Maghull sold him the car, that was around the same period I bought one myself in metalic blue. All this was at the time we both worked as apprentice Joiners for Tysons Contractors of 5 Dryden street, Liverpool.

Dave was not as used to cars with rear wheel drive as myself and one dark damp evening managed to leave a high and banked road on the way back from the Pheasant Inn, near Crosby, the car then rolled and Dave was then famous for rolling the very first Sunbeam Stiletto! this was early in 1968.

Dave was a member of the Camping Club of Great Britain and Ireland, as CCY (camping club youth) members we traveled far and wide, did Dave re join the club I wonder? The last I heard was he was working a maintainance manager for a company near Liverpool.

Where is Dave now, while in Cape Town he married Sue and English girl with red hair, at that time Dave worked in Cape Town for Murray and Stewart building contractors and as a manager. Sue and Dave lived in a flat above Proctors Garage in Bantry Bay, they had one child at that time.

Later they moved to Liverpool where Sue and Dave produced another child, we lost touch with them after that. I have checked Facebook and found neither of them.

David will be about sixty six now?

Roy

Deck hatch new Plexiglas lens kit

This has been an idea for some while, we have the CNC machine to do the Plexiglas cutting, the correct UV proof sealant from Dow-Corning, so why not make deck hatch service kits?

This was in a nice safe place on the deck of a boat, it could not really be stepped on, the damage you see came from the sun and the method of bonding of the center handle.

This is from a Lewmar made hatch, in this case the sealing of the 8mm thick Plexiglas to the alloy frame is done with a rudder sealing strip, as you can see we can take this one apart.

We can do port lights, open or closed, deck hatches, clear, smoke or blue tint even white, which seems quite popular now.

Hatches can be by Lewmar, Gebo, Starlight, or probably what ever you have, we will need a template of the existing lens. We then CNC cut to shape and size, plus supply a tube of sealant to install the new lens with.

Local plastics suppliers have Plexiglas, Pespex, Lexan, Ampagard, and Perspex so we have a nice choice of materials to work from.

For those who are local to Cape Town and can remove their hatches we can offer a lens removal and fitting service.

How easy is that!

Roy

The Canary Islands from above

A friend sent me this picture!

I assume taken out of the window of what ever plane he was flying back to the USA on?

ARIEL SHOT OF THE CANARY ISLANDS,  COAST OF AFRICA THIS WEEK

 

Click on the image to see a much larger image.

That's Africa to the right, what a desolate looking place?

Roy


 

Blue Shadow of Mauritius

Some time back I did a thread on a classic ocean sailing yacht, Blue Shadow of Mauritius.

http://ckdboats.blogspot.com/2009/10/blue-shadow-of-mauritius.html

I am pleased to say new info on the boat came in just yesterday!

Roy

Blue Shadow of Mauritius.

 

Hi , my name is Noel McKay.

I was the one who 2 handed the vessel to Perth and later to Geraldton.

Shots are of

Christian,

My now wife Lyn Merrington giving a haircut on the Geraldton trip (via the Abrolhos Islands) (which happened to be our first date)

Myself at the wheel in the Great Australian Bight

Christian at the wheel headed into Geraldton.

I helped Christian look after the boat here in Australia and met JeanMichel and his family, and was the witness in the Ships Log and notice of sale sent to the Lloyd Register when he sold 63/64^ths of the vessel to Jeanna for 1 pound ???

Thanks Noel!

 

She was a Swiss South African athlete and journalist and I think later married Peter..
 
Christian was certainly suffering the effects of a crushed vertebrae ( a fall on the steps in the Harbour in Vanuatu) and a lot of self medicating with strong pain killers befor e I got him to a doctor in Perth  and then on a plane to Belgium for medical treatment.

 

I to have lost touch and have had no response to letters sent to his home.

 

I have some other details should you be interested.

 

Noel McKay

 

Perth

Australia

Black Cat is off to Rio again!

Words taken from the Blogspot of Dudley Dix, USA.

I have done it 3 times before and I am soon going to do it again. Sail in the Cape to Rio Race, that is. I have crossed the South Atlantic 4 times, so this will be my 5th crossing.

In 1993 I raced on the Shearwater 39 "Ukelele Lady" (yes, I know that ukulele is spelt incorrectly but the guy who carved the name board was a bad speller) as sailing master and navigator. The boat was owned by my friend Nick Taylor, entertainer and TV personality.

In 1996 I sailed on the Didi 38 "Black Cat", as skipper and co-owner. Between the 1993 and 1996 races I had designed and built the new boat for the race. After Rio, we cruised her to the beautiful Bay of Islands SW of Rio before I raced her back to Cape Town, double-handed with Jay Barnes, in the South Atlantic Challenge.

Built in my garden in Hout Bay, here we are turning the hull.

( I was one of the guys there helping to turn the boat over that day, Roy)

 In 2000 I sailed on "Black Cat" again, as skipper. By then my co-owner, Adrian Pearson, had bought my share and was sole owner. Clive Dick and Adrian sailed her back to Cape Town.

Now "Black Cat" is 18 years old and has many thousands of ocean and coastal miles under her keel. We are about to head out onto the South Atlantic Ocean again, in the 2014 Cape to Rio Race. We have assembled the same crew as in 1996 with the exception of the navigator. My good friend Brian Cole was navigator in 1996 but is now getting on in years, so we have a younger man in his place.

http://dudleydix.blogspot.com/2013/08/cape-to-rio-race-2014.html

Read the full story in the link above.

Roy
 

The JoLon Imp needs your vote!

The JoLon Imp drove some 14000 kilometers in just 39 days, that was nearly the entire length of Africa.
In the end they did three continents as they attempted to what most thought IMPossible?

Hello Folks,

I am not sure if you know that a near standard Hillman Imp drove from JoBurg to Coventry in 39 days recently.

They drove 14,000 kms but did about 2000 more on various ferries.

The voting is now open and the link is http://www.ccoty.co.uk/bgbt_voting.php.

The car was named JoLon Imp and owned by Terence Tracey.

Please enter the link above,then cast a single vote and for Tracey, JoLon Imp.

The car was later entered for the Classic Car or the Year Award and got to the last thirty, if it can be chosen in the last

five it will make the display at Birminghams NEC (national exhibition center) world wide we needs votes, can you please

vote as well, maybe forward this mail to others as well?

Regards

Roy

Folks, this very much depends on you.

Voting is now open!

.............................................................................................................

Thank you Roy McBride

Your vote(s) have been successfully recorded.

.............................................................................................................

That was the email reply when I cast my one and only vote, please read my comments below.

Note, please vote only for Tracey , which is the JoLon Imp,the download I had showed the JoLon Imp at the top, this may just be by chance?

Do not vote for other cars, doing this will dilute the required votes to Tracey/JoLon Imp.

Good luck Terence!

Roy 

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Journey's End - the Jolon Imp breaks the tape after arriving from South Africa to be part of our Imp 50 celebrations.

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RYA Hout Bay YC marina mooring test

No, I am making that up but just check this seamanship!

It was the MFV Annaliese that extracted itself from the inside of six other vessels a few days back. I was on the marina yesterday and there she is again doing another masterful trick.

 

Check the stern mooring lines, they are secured to the end of the HBYC marina.

 

 

Not one boat mind you but another of a similar size tied along side.

 

 

The SW breeze was blowing them on to the marina, I have no idea why they needed to tie up but here they are moving off.

Does the skipper have an RYA or SAS skippers ticket, I wonder but he sure knows what he is doing.

Roy



 

Dix 34 for sale in South Africa

Since sold!

This boat is only a few years old, it was well built from one of our kits and has done local races and cruising with some success.

http://ckdboats.blogspot.com/2007/11/ckd-kit-nick-fairlys-dd34-launched-in.html

Seen above on the day it was launched, the owner is re locating and asks that we offer his boat and at a very (really) good price!

The boat can be sold with its own marina or as the boat only, pricing will be adjusted as required.

I do suspect that in to days market you would do well to even buy the materials that went into this boat and  at the owners asking price for a quality boat that can easily be ready to do the next Cape to Rio race and further.

Contact me for the full details.

Roy

27 21 7903859 phone and fax line.

 

Click on these pictures to enlarge them.

 

Buy this now and you can be on the start line of the 2014 Cape to Rio yacht race, I think it starts January 06 2014?

 

RYA skippers ticket anyone?

Charles told me of a successful week away and on a Far 38 up in Langerbaan, the reason was to complete his RYC course, which I am pleased to say he passed. One of the practical tests was to come up to a bouy in reverse  and against wind and tide then pick up the bouy and make it fast.

No easy job!

I was thinking about this test when I witnessed a skipper who on finding his trawler moored seven boats deep, extracated himself with no fuss to the other six boats.

Click on any picture to enlarge them.

Check in the far corner of the harbour to see what the task was.

With lots of forward and reverse, rudder angle changes the boats prop wash moved the inside boat off the wall.

I assume his crew were busy replacing the other boats mooring lines but for sure out he comes!

The other boats seemed not to be affected in anyway by this.

MFV Annaliese of Cape Town, the scene was in Hout Bays harbour.

An RYA masters ticket anyone?

How great was this !

Roy

Note:

Some years back I took a Dean 44 catamaran into the same corner, the boat I was skippering was a Dix 43, the mast had just been removed. It was surprisingly easy to position the Dean cat with the boat I was on when it was tied starboard to port.

The Dix 43 has a Perkins 4108 46 hp diesel motor and an 18" classic twin bladed Max Prop which pulls the boat to port when in reverse, had we been facing the other way and with the Dix 43 on the inside, things will have been much different.

Okoume marine plywood to BS1008 standard in Cape Town

We expect some 4mm, 6mm,  9mm and 12mm into stock quite soon, its sized 1220mm x 2500mm and is made in France, please contact me for prices and delivery.

Note, this is a one off, there is no more expected once this is sold.

Okoume marine as made in France

These are  the markings on a sheet of French made 4mm okoume  marine plywood.

This was okoume marine ply that we sent by air to a customer in Mauritius.
Packed between two outer layers of pine ply, then steel banded we can deliver by courier country wide or international.

Roy