Cape Henry 21 building in Seattle, USA.

Its always nice to receive news and pictures from our customers, they give a good feedback on what our kit has become and how well it assembles.

We shipped the Cape Henry 21 plywood kit to Fred, then later we also sent him the 1" thick profiled drop steel keel, made here in Cape Town, even with shipping it was seen to be good value.

Fred in Seattle is building a Cape Henry 21 by Dudley Dix.

Words below by Fred,

Scheduled to exhibit 'Evangelina' at Port Townsend's Wooden Boat Festival; 2nd wknd. in Sept. She might float in as a 'convertible', ha ha.

Your cnc cutting is very precise. I determined scarf overlaps and skin panel sections via Dudley's Mylars.

Fred just happens to have a very complete wood working shop, in his case that is what he does but most work with just the basic tools many of which are to be found in the average home.

Roy

Progress report on wooden boat repairs

A week and a bit more I posted that a fishing boat was under repair.

Today we can see the excellence of the new structure, all built either off the boats own decks or the floating punt along side.

The wood used in Keruing, either that or Balau, the Keruing steams well but the Balau does not.

A class repair and on a boat that will by now be at least sixty years young.

Side planks next week and they will require a steam tube session to make the required bends.

Roy

Sunshine break in Hout Bay's winter

Today we have rain, lots of it and up to 50mm predicted?

Click on the image to enlarge it.

The yacht is a Dix 43 in a wood/epoxy build, some upgrades were done to the primary winches in the cockpit, the mainsail cover also.

The helmsman with suitable experience can sail this yacht by himself (or her) ,  the mainsail will need a man forward to reef it but with that done, the yacht has all the sail controls in the spacious cockpit.

The as new Lewmar sheet winches are sized 58:1  and 44:1 ratio, giving  an easy job when handling the headsails. They are both alloy and self tailing, the forward winch controls either the Staysail or the Harken series three head sail furler, a jamber backs up the black Sampson braid control line when the Staysail is in use.

The rig is a Cutter but the inner forestay can be unhooked and lashed down to one side, meaning that even in lighter airs the Genoa will tack easily.

The break in the winter rains allowed a little sun tanning but not today as its pouring with rain!

Roy.

Hout Bay Sunday classic car driving

Why not, it was really nice weather on Sunday morning, so a drive around our side of Hout Bay and a visit to the award winning Engen garage for some petrol was a good idea.

Collen is the supervisor there, he is in the car in this picture.

Collen knows quite a bit about the Hillman Imp, as a friend in Johannesburg was doing the over head camshaft  on his car and Colin was there watching.

What a nice mornings drive!

How hard can this be?

The car is a 1967 Hillman Imp Californian Coupe, an export model sent to Mozambique.

How I ended up with it and dating back twenty years is another story.

Roy

Hout Bay Yacht Club marina in winter

This is a very typical winters day scene in Hout Bay, given that winter here is often wet and stormy, we do got some really nice spells of calm weather and with warm sunshine and blue skies.

John is reading his book and seated on a bench off yacht Gambula, the bench was fastened down on the aft deck at one time but was donated to the marina.

Sailors walk to their yacht and to be honest this really is winter at its best, the air was a warm 24c (smile)

How nice can this get!

The camera is a Canon G1X digital as my Canon G11 died with its lens extended................

Roy

Working with International Paints

The boat in the picture was painted from new with International Paints, its a system which has proved its worth many times over in the sixteen years since the boat was painted.

The boat is being given a service and the sheet winch pods are having the original teak cover board removed. The teak was the cause of a leak and really the Lewmar STA 58 and 44 winches, which are only a few years old will look a lot nicer on the clean white Interthane 990 polyurethane gloss top coat than on the un varnished teak.

This pod was refurbished and then coated with our 816 epoxy and 205 cure agent, some glass cloth went into the assembly to add strength as well.

The paint system is Intergard 276 white epoxy primer, six coats with a small foam roller due to wet sanding between the layers, then Interthane 990 top coat, which was three coats applied with a spray gun.

The winches will be refitted next.

With the job done its time to remove the teak cover board on the Port side of the boat and refurbish that side so things look the same.

The idea is to have a cleaner looking cockpit area!

Roy

The Cape Charles 32 revisited

January 2016, the plans are still not finished, please contact me to be placed on the update list on the Cape Charles 32 design.

News in from the boats designer looks good.

I have two firm orders for the Cape Charles 32 and others champing at the bit. The design is progressing and should be ready for builders to start within a few more weeks.

Regards,

Dudley Dix
Dudley Dix Yacht Design

This boat is a size we can relate to when we need a boat that will be home to a couple or even a small family,its large enough to sail most places and being traditional in its rig,as low cost as its possible to find,you can make your own mast from a kit we can supply or we can make one complete and ready to raise for you.

The interior layout would be flexible within the boundary of the bulkhead stations, I would think Dudley will supply more than one interior layout option?

Roy

Avon Rover 3.1 Hypalon rubber dinghy for sale

The best in the world?

Who knows but for sure this one is right up at the top of the best.

The boat folds and has the addition of an inflatable keel tube to form a V profile which is best for use under an outboard motor.

The floor is in three parts and is joined inside the boat with two special alloy tube profiles to keep them straight and flat.

There is also a front spray dodger and a removable GRP seat in yellow, a second and copy seat is supplied as an extra.

This one has been used just a few times only and is almost unmarked, even the 12mm okoume marine plywood floors are in the original clear varnish and look quite new.

The boat is just about complete, the oars are not original but do suit the boat, otherwise the entire kit is as supplied?

R8000.00

Ex Hout Bay, South Africa.

Simply the best and a full import.

Its a gem!

Roy

Materials sent to Reunion Island are now a boat

We have sent various boat building materials to many islands in the world, the latest one was to Reunion Island and in the Indian Ocean,

HELLO ROY,

 this joins two picture of my project. 

Thanks

Alexandre

The design is by Mark Bowdidge Marine from Australia, we can offer their plans and the materials to build with on request.

This order included the WBP hardwood exterior plywood, epoxy and the glass cloth to cover the boat with.

Roy

The Cape Cutter 19 as a kit?

Now and again our work returns to us from a totally different source?

Ian moved down to New Zealand many years back, when his pension kicked in he used some of the cash to order a kit for a Cape Cutter 19 to be able to build the boat of his dreams, he made a fine job of it too.

We can no longer offer this size of boat but can offer the Cape Henry 21, it is just 10% larger.

The picture and the message below came in today!

Hi Ian, 

Thanks for those pics, I'm so impressed with what you have built there, so nice and new looking still, that I'm sending them to our boat building expert.

Well done,

 Notty.

Roy

Fishing Boat repairs in Hout Bay Harbour

A little further along the wall more repairs are in progress, note the sunken trawler, named the Barbra, she went down one stormy night when the resident crew was not on board?

The two bouys further out mark another sunken fishing boat.

When will someone do something to clear all these sunken boats? I think there may be fifteen of them now?

Roy

Trawler repairs in the water, Hout Bay Harbour

This has been going on for a very long while, the slip may not have space or the electric motor that hauls the slip up the ramp may not have been replaced since it was last stolen, before that they stole the battery that started the engine that hauled the slip cradle.

I assume the boat being worked on has a fish catching quota so is worth the time and effort to repair it, the hulk at the North wall probably has no quota?

The floating work platform takes many workmen, they must have a genset on the trawler as the service power line to the harbour mole was stolen some months back, all sixty meters of it.

We have around fifteen fishing boats sunk in the Hout Bay Harbour, most due to theft of skin fittings they say?

Breaking news?

A resident on one of the better fishing trawlers advised me today that a tender is either out or has been awarded to a company with an articulated arm and a claw grabber, the idea being to just pick all the wooden wrecks up piece by piece, or is this a fairy tale?

Roy

How to re wire a Perkins 4108 instrument panel

This work starts tomorrow, so pictures from then on.

The new loom was cut in half with a jig saw blade but thats no matter really as now the panel can be removed from the boat and serviced on the bench when required.

Note, I have two complete Perkins 4108 wire looms, they both have different colour wires, so please be advised.

One is in great shape and I suspect the loom is from a later engine which I also have!

Tools of the trade on the day of re installation, shrink tube was also used to cover terminals when the panel was on the bench.

How your panel is wired is anyones guess but the gauges should all be the same VDO made type? wire loom colours are standard Lucas I think?

Click on the images, they should enlarge.

This panel has some additions, the key switch is none original, this one was USA packaged, there is a positive supply taken off it to power another unit such as 12 volt power take off for a search light should it be needed . Left of center is an oil pressure warning light, this is due to be connected to an alarm as well.

Roy

Paper Jet 001 is for sale!

Words below are by the boats designer, Dudley Dix.

This was the first such boat ever cut, CKD Boats cc cut it!

Now for sale at only U$8000. Contact Dudley direct on dudley@dixdesign.com 


I designed the Paper Jet to be an exciting junior trainer, capable of taking a young sailor through multiple skill-levels, from a basic free-standing una-rigged dinghy through to a high-performance trapeze skiff with asymmetric spinnaker. This it does without having to spend bundles of money to trade up to another boat, by doing it all on the same hull and adding or swapping rig and hardware components. She is extremely light, with the hull weighing only 94lb, easily manhandled by small crew.



http://dudleydix.blogspot.com/

British Seagull outboard motor for sale

A part restored and working 4.5hp outboard motor is now for sale.

As you can see the motor is quite good right now.

It will restore very nicely I think.

It has the gear, which is really a clutch, to reverse you just swing the motor around.

This motor will push quite a large boat.

It has never been in sea water as I found it on the Vaal Dam.

Regards

Roy

 The Castrol EP 140 gear oil is ex stock while unsold.

Price would be R6000 as it is now and R7750 with the required parts stripped and repainted, exports are fine, Vat @ 14% for RSA residents etc. For USA buyers we are talking of only U$650 and repainted.

Years Manufactured	1967 to 1973
Series	Century
Model	Plus - Clutch Drive
HP	4-4.5
Ignition	Wipac Mk 2
Gear Oil	SAE or EP 140
Model	Plus -Clutch Drive
Picture
The Villiers Carb was used on all these models, the same carb on 102 cc and 64cc, no difference? How that works no one has ever explained, but it does make it easier to swop carbs about!