Didi Mini Transat from one of our kits

This boat is the boat that started our move into CNC cut boats, that's a decade ago now, so ten years now and a boat that has launched a 1000 kits I would think?

In this time we have cut many boats and and of all sizes, dinghies to cats.

735 is the boats class number.

We have shipped these designs as kits just about world wide.

We also supplied the Harken deck gear and the special alloy stantions and pulpits.

The boat is for sale, it can be sailed out of Cape Town or shipped, contact me for details.

Roy

A yacht named Black Cat, by Dix Design

A new coat of paint on the Didi 38 Black Cat came with a sense of humour!

It went in this way.

And came out this way!

This boat was the first of Dudleys Radius Chine design yachts, the boat was built by Dudley and for the South Atlantic race around twenty years ago, Black Cat is now doing the race for the third time.

The bow is high as the spring tides are low, I hope they remember this on Saturday!

While the boat was always a racer cruiser and should do well in the race, she will also make a great fast family size cruising yacht, at 38 feet long she has lots of volume and three double cabins too.

The tide was still going out when I left, the Didi 38 draws 6 feet of water so you can see how little there is there right then.

Roy

Royal Cape Yacht Club, hosts the 2014 Cape to Rio yacht race

The event has some 35 plus entries, yachts of all sorts and sizes, where some of them are right now I am not sure, probably at the other deeper water marinas near the city center?

Rain is predicted for Saturday, I hope they are wrong!

Roy

Cape to Rio Yacht Race 2014 time

I have just been to the HBYC to see whats on down there, lots of work still to be done on many boats I think.

Dudley Dix was there to manage customs and immigration on time, one of the officials was not!

 

Dudley on his Black Cat, which is a Didi 38 that he designed and built for himself.This will be his third Rio race in the same boat.

The race starts on Saturday 4th January.

Roy
 

B and G the 213 mast head unit repair works!

This story goes back about four years and more when on the removal of a yachts mast the windspeed and wind direction unit was wrecked when it came into contact with the crane.

A new one was purchased, that lasted not very long in local wind conditions and it went back to
the factory for repairs.

http://ckdboats.blogspot.com/2013/03/b-213-mhu-unit-removal.html


When that failed some time later I was faced with a repair or a replaced unit, B and G offered me a new unit at a discount but that was still more than I feel I should have to pay when I started off with a new one in the first place. The service department are very good at support by the way, I have no complaints there, just the paying a second time.

 

I had a second option I wanted to try first, this 496 MHU was in stock, could I use the

head of it and bond it to the 213 arm?

 

I called in the help of Steve who is a local tech, guy not more than a few days later and he delivered his repaired and bonded 213 MHU unit to me, the cost and including another PCB was less than half of what the factory offer was.

 

http://ckdboats.blogspot.com/2013/03/b-network-mhu-496-changes.html

 

 

This is a PCB the cost of which is horrific when bought via the agents.

 

Would Steves  repair work was the question, well he did the job in May of 2013, it was only three days back that I could get up the mast and swop the mast head plug over for the repair unit and all is working fine right now.

 

Steve showed me a typical fault, small O rings which seal the weather out of the PCB case were perished, he replaced those with better ones and also with silicone grease, he told me they should be replaced once a year. I then taped the joints on the case with black amalgamating tape, nothing should ever get through that now, will the mast head unit now give the many years of service I expect?

 

Time as ever will tell.

 

 

All working and the functions look good.

 

Happy New Year to you all!

 

Roy

 

Still on the mast head subject, a type C unit I fitted on the HBYC  marina office some three years back is still working, its over 30 years old now?

http://ckdboats.blogspot.com/2013/03/b-type-c-mast-head-units-are-better.html

 

 

A Giant In Hiding

This volume came to me by way of a Eamon who happened to find the book on a dump, thrown away as unwanted. Written by Lawrence G Green and published by Howard Timmins here in Cape Town in 1970.

Not only is this book in good condition, it has most of its paper cover as well, who would throw such a volume away?


My thanks to the Eamon who spent the time to Google the book and find my blog about Wylo, the boat is still here in Hout Bay and in the care of Henry as far as I know.

http://ckdboats.blogspot.com/2009/01/wylothe-original-that-frank-wightman.html

 

What a find, the book was well thought out and a lot of effort went into the publishing.

 

Inside and written in pencil are the words 1st Edition, was there ever a second?

 

Also To my 1st born with love from Dad, Durban Jan, 1996.

 

Roy

Roy

Jabsco raw water pump

One of these fits on the Perkins 4108 diesel, its a strong bit of kit and should never fail. Keep a spare impellor just in case though.

There should be a rubber plug or bung in that hole where the shaft is.

 

If you have taken this off your Perkins 4108 engine read the manual very carefully about refitting it, do it wrong and you will wreck the drive.

 

How easy is that, simple it seems?

 

Note, the steel plate and four studs would normally not be removed as they fit inside the engines timing cover plate. The actual Jabsco pump should be safe to remove, its the timing cover and mount plate that needs a special tool to get it lined up, all in the Perkins 4108 work shop manual but not in the user manual I have read?

 

Roy

 

 

Inside the Hout Bay Yacht Club

I was passing and saw a HBYC club member on the clubs balcony, we started discussing a well known one design dinghy, after some time he suggested that rather than shout up and down at each other, why not come up and have a drink and a chat at a table?

What a good idea that was, just check out how nice the clubs bar area is, lots of space, plus the view from the full length windows cover the entire bay.

The one design dinghy? well its still under discussion, we have met with some top class officials, discussed the wants and whys, its now up to them and others to grant the licence for cutting and supply of kits!

Watch this space, I may surprise us all one day?

Roy
 

Proteus 106 catamaran build details

The fact that this boat can be built the right way up makes a lot of sense to me, right away you can get a feel for what your building, its space and size in relation to yourself, its built about a half meter
off the factory floor.

This one is in Venezuela, we can ship kits world wide at a reasonable cost.

 

The bow assembly, all easy to manage when your working with a CNC prepared kit

from CKD Boats cc in Cape Town.

 

The plans do not call for internal glassing on the hull flats, only the joints where the bulkheads meet the hull skin, in this case the owner/builder has glassed it all, adding a little weight but a lot of strength.

 

 

This is the way I would build this boat, right away your seeing the boat and can establish the mass of living space this boat has.

 

 

This is the cockpit beam, as with the rest of the boats hull and decks, all panels are CNC cut for the builder.

 

 

Details inside the hull of the boat built in Thailand.

 

 

Again the boat that Rick had built in Thailand.

 

 

 

 A kit from us includes all the plys and epoxy plus the glass tapes and cloth, allow around R200,000(U$19,300 at this time) as a start price plus the plans, which are supplied direct from the boats designer Angelo Lavranos.

 

Pricing is subject to confirmation at the time of your order.

 

Roy

 

Building the Proteus 106 sailing catamaran

I have just been asked how easy this design is to build? that's a question that needs a little background information on, I have seen some remarkable results from normally desk bound types just because they applied themselves.

Here the side panels have been joined together with scarph joints, which in themselves are really easy to do.

This was the clamping table the panels were glued up on, the clamping is easy to make, threaded rod and cross clamps with nuts and washers will work fine also. The panels can be glued up on the boat also.

 Simply put this is really just an assembly job, our kit gives you around 130 sheets of CNC cut marine plys and some MDF sheets which are removable stations when the boat is built. I would not build this way up as its possible to build the right way up also.

Note, the first tow pictures are of our kit as sent to Erminio in Caracas, Venezuela, he built the right way up, the last two pictures are of Ricks boat in Thailand, that boat was built from plans and also as the transom section extended.

Roy

A picture of yacht Stormvogel

I have just been offered a really nice oil painting of the same boat, its on the market right now with offers on R20,000.

 

A precious Africana: Stormvogel
Winner of the Los Angeles-Hawaii Transpac Race 1967, winner overall
Oil painting by Peter Stut, 1961

Race Event: Rolex Middle Sea Race 2008

Boat Name: Stormvogel

Boat Owner: Ermanno Traverso

Boat Charterer: N/A

Boat Skipper: Graeme Henry

Yacht Club: N/A

Sail Number: H 700

Country: Britain

Names of crew: 
max passariello

Year Built: 1961

Boat Type: Ketch

Designer: Van de Stadt

Builder: Lamtico

IMS GPH: 0.0

IMS PLT: 0.0

IMS PLD: 0.0

IRC TCC: 1.205

MORCA TMF: 0.0

LOA: 22.6

Hull Colour: White

Home Port: Plymouth

A Christmas Day party on the HBYC marina

This was the scene and yesterday around 3pm, the boat on the left with the awnings up is from New Zealand, it looks like a pot luck gathering of all the cruisers that have arrived in the past two weeks!

 

Click on the picture to enlarge it.

We have visitors here from a number of countries which is always a good thing for the regular members as we get to see lots of new ideas on the visiting boats.

Roy

Artic Circle Hillman Imp

This is a Christmas Card with a difference, sent to me by Richard , an Imp Club member in the UK, while I am driving my own 1967 Singer Chamois down in South Africa and at around 26c another Imp Club member is out in the snow, it may be minus 20c up there?

 

So we at only 46c between the two cars  and maybe 10,000 miles?

Seasons Greetings to all my blog viewers and customers!

Regards

Roy

www.theimpclub.com
 

Perkins 4108 marine engine rebuild

The Perkins 4108M diesel engine is one of the classic diesel engines, it was in production some thirty years and is found world wide, did I once read they use the same engine in London taxies and ice cream vans?

We now have a spare engine which will be rebuilt using the spares kit seen in the picture above, with new pistons, liners and bearings we will have a near new engine.

 We can offer it as a short motor or with a refurbished cylinder head, with serviced injectors and high pressure fuel pump, you can then remove the other parts from your own engine and fit them on the rebuilt engine.

Click on the images for a larger view.

This is a Perkins 4108M, its running and has done around 1900 hrs since new, it uses no oil between services and has been found to be very reliable. Suitable for yachts around 35ft to 50ft and also for work boats and power craft, the rated HP being between 45 to 50hp depending on the boats hull form and engine speed used.

The two black pipes on the right of the engine and supported by the stainless steel springs, are the supply and return to the boats calorifier and hot water system, run the engine for twenty minutes and you can have a nice hot shower with clean fresh water!

Prices will depend on what you want, we can even offer the heat exchanger system and also a Borg Warner Velvet Drive gear box, plus your existing Perkins 4108M may be taken in part exchange?

The engine is in the Cape Town area which is South Africa, we can deliver country wide.

Work will start on this project early in 2014.

Roy

Superform bending plywoods in stock.

New stocks arrived by ship a day or so back, due to the seasonal recess we have placed the consignment in stock until we re open January 13th 2014, prices are available now and we can book your order pending delivery next month.

Now in a Cape Town store, spare stocks to back up our customers needs, selling as pack sizes to the trade, or as smaller orders to retail buyers.

We import in three thicknesses, 3mm, 5mm and 8mm with the grain going in either direction.

We can supply in bundles right now 3mm x 150 sheets, 5mm x 95 sheets and 8mm x 55 sheets, prices on request.

 Forget the rest, buy the best, Superform is not only CE approoved, its also waterproof and the most flexible bending plywood on the market.

Roy