1275c Mini Cooper S for sale in Cape Town, South Africa

Who wants a genuine Mini Cooper S 1275 single tank (old shape) with matching numbers and restored?

At this time I have not even seen the car but I do know the owner very well, we talked about the
car being my next project but a buyer needs to be found first.

The car is said to be an early model and about 1963/4, its a bare shell right now, so ready for its rebuild and a new owner.

This is not the actual car but shows what a Mini Cooper looks like.


http://ckdboats.blogspot.com/2008/07/austin-mini-cooper-genuine-parts-manual.html

I already have a genuine 1st edition ,September 1961 Cooper  parts manual on my books on cars, so re assembly should be faster and correct.

I heard on Sky TV that Jeff Randle Live was saying the market in wrist watches and classic cars was better than the stock market these days!


Roy

Didi Mini Transat Cruise launch

As I was mentioning the exports of kits, David in Perth, Australia sent me a mail with the message below. We supplied the kit, the parts like stantions, pulpit and pushpits to finish the boat with later, this often helps with the builders cash flow while building.

Roy

 

 

                                                                                                      The day has finely arrived it's going in the water 

                You are invited to attend and witness the official launch of 

                             Davids  Mini Transat 650     Martine  

                                             at 10.00  Sunday 2 February 2014.

                            At South of Perth Yacht Club  Applecross.

 

                          RSVP  @  coledavid@iprimus.com.au

 

           

 

 

                                                                                                                                               

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selling to the world

We started the company on an order for a Didi Mini Transat, boat number one and its still here and I believe for sale. That was about ten years back, we then started to be asked for kits to be exported world wide, the sales continue and our packing service has become well known.

Yot-Grot

This one was a surprise to even myself, a Taylors 30L paraffin stove, sent on return or sale by its owner in Durban 1000 miles away, we found a buyer in Australia many more miles away!

Here you go Roy - reassembled in my front yard (boat project in the background). I look forward to seeing it on your blog!

Cheers

Ben

The delivery was by regular postal service, at 37kgs in weight we broke the stove down (with care) to three smaller packs and shipped from our local post office at a very reasonable cost of R1340, that's about U$125.

This way we all scored, Chris the owner, myself and Ben the new owner!

Roy

This may suit someone for a rebuild or spares, open to offers.

http://ckdboats.blogspot.com/2013/10/taylors-030-stove-for-sale.html

And to prove it works, well did when the gas burner was fitted inside the oven, now removed but you can source and fit one yourself.

http://ckdboats.blogspot.com/2013/09/captain-flea-bakes-some-bread.html

The Bomboloza Scull revisited

This local design  was featured back in 2009, Dave who designed it bought plys and CNC work from us, we still have the cut files so more kits to Daves design can be supplied.

First day test.

Words by Dave, the boats designer:

Here are a few pics of the ‘Vuvuzela’, which is the double partner to the ‘Bombaloza’ single.  It is constructed on the same principles and is similar in design, except it has a flat bottom while the Bombaloza has a v-section throughout.  I have received quite a bit of positive feedback about the boat, mainly because it is very versatile since it is able to carry up to 4 people (2 rowers, 1 passenger and 1 coxswain).  So a bit more social than the single.

The building jig on the right hand side can be used many times, note the part assembled second boat to the left.

 

These boats are light and easy to handle but are suitable for use in protected bays and sea conditions.

 

 

The one man version can be carried by one person?

 

 

 

 

 

Didi 15 Sport Boat

This  design is now active but as yet the materials list has not been provided, so no kit prices just yet.

We have a request for a kit price and will post that as soon as we can.

Roy

The Didi Sport 15 design started a few years ago and has been moving along very slowly, at the pace of the prototype that is being built by a very meticulous builder. He is making a beautiful job of his new boat, hence the slow rate of building.

This design started as a 16ft bigger sister to the Paper Jet. It was to be of similar concept but a twin trapeze skiff for two adults. When he told me that he also planned to use it as a picnic boat for four adults with cooler boxes, I told him that the Paper Jet concept really had no chance to serve all of his requirements. The concept immediately changed to what you see in the Didi Sport 15, as a ballasted sportboat.

The Didi Sport 15 hull is a little sister to the Didi Mini Mk3 and a direct development from it. It has the waterline beam and stability to serve the picnic purpose that the builder wants, able to carry load in a relatively docile manner if reefed down to suit the breeze of the time. In this mode she is really a sportboat with a modern and powerful rig that can be reduced to be more docile if needed. With her full rig of squaretop mainsail, self-tacking jib and asymetrical spinnaker on a retractable bowsprit and launched from a chute, she will be a spirited racer for club Olympic triangle and point-to-point racing. Or just blast back-and-forth across the bay or lake until you wear yourself out from fun and excitement.

She has a covered foredeck above a sealed rapid-draining wet deck, which creates a safe and dry storage area and shelter for small crew. These characteristics make her a good option for raid-type racing events that require carrying one's own stores, camping equipment etc over long distances between camping stops. Hanging a tarp or the mainsail over the boom turns her into a camp cruiser, with a cockpit long and wide enough for a couple of airbeds for a comfortable night anchored or nudged up onto the beach in a sheltered private cove.

http://dixdesign.com/DS15.htm

Hillman Imp Mk2 cylinder head refurbished

This was my so called December holiday project, three Imp heads came in some while back, they looked like junk as they came off the back of my truck.

Shades of Coventry Climax!

Click on the picture for a larger view.

The head was filthy and covered with grime and oil but closer inspection showed the head to be straight and had already had the valves re ground, excepting one valve was not the right type for this head.

Cleaned and bead blasted, the valves were re done and lapped in by hand, with the correct oil seal and oil resistant paper gasket fitted under the coil spring support washer, the head just needs the shims fitting now.

Roy
 

Watchmate Vision AIS new touch screen version

This new model can display all your boats functions, it will work on wi-fi too, being waterproof and daylight readable you can use it in the cockpit.

Available by courier direct from factory to you, credit card payments and Pay-Pal accepted.
CKD Boats cc will handle the order for you.

Check out the website for full information

http://www.vespermarine.com/transponders/xb8000-ais-transponder.html/#

 http://www.vespermarine.com/  the  new VHF/AIS antenna makes sense to me,

Free app for you with your purchase, control from your phone!

AIS Transponders with WiFi for iPad, iPhone or Android Navigation Vesper Marine has developed two unique Class B AIS transponders with WiFi allowing AIS data to be viewed from anywhere on your boat. The XB-8000 & WatchMate Vision can securely connect up to 5 other devices simultaneously. You can have a wireless connection to your laptop, smart phone and tablet. For even larger networks, you can wirelessly connect to an external WiFi router for unlimited expansion capability. Works with most navigation software on iPhone, iPad, and Android phones and tablets. Now this package really does make sense!

Roy

The Cape Henry 21 kit build

Also at the RCYC and while I was viewing some of the Cape 2 Rio race entries is a Cape Henry 21 that was built locally from one of our kits.

The boat was  built here in Cape Town by a local specialist, who is keen to accept build orders from others, we supply the CNC cut kit, while he builds you the boat.

The venue is the RCYC, the Cape 2 Rio race start was just three days away!

This boat is fitted with a Yanmar GM10 diesel engine, the standard drive would normally be a small outboard, say 5 to 8hp?

Roy

 

Didi 38 light ship weight

The Didi 38 has a dry weight of some four tons, two of which are in the keel, the boat is fast in all conditions and especially in light winds and off the wind.

 

Here the fine bow can be seen, spring low tides have the boat sitting on her keel, Black Cat is now starting her third Cape to Rio race and the race starts today!

With an SA/D sail area to displacement of 23.8 its easy to see that this boat will power up easily.

http://www.dixdesign.com/38didi.htm

Bon Voyage to the crew of five which should work well, two resting or sleeping and three working the boat?

Roy
 

I meet up with the Cape To Rio crew entrant Angelo Lavranos

I met up with Angelo for a very brief chat about the Proteus 106 design he has, such was the time factor that we have not even had the time to go and visit the one being built here.

Angelo is doing the Cape to Rio race again and on Indaba, a Van Der Stadt 34 as crew.

Bon voyage Angelo and I will be watching your progress daily!

http://ckdboats.blogspot.com/2013/12/building-proteus-106-sailing-catamaran.html

This is the link to the Proteus 106 and under construction, its so easy you can do it yourself!

Roy

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