Paper Jet 14, Andre sails his kit build

This was a kit we supplied to Andre, he did a great quality job of his build and the boat looks and sails really well.

This looks like fun!

Next they tried another camera angle.

A great shot and from the mast head!

Roy

The JoLon Imp reaches Port Said in Egypt!

Those of you who have any ideas of driving in Africa with their car need to seriously read this blog!

http://jolonimp.wordpress.com/

The route looks crazy in a car dating so old, just the standard 875cc engine and no
back up beyond what they took with them.

To get as far as Kenya was quite a task, it soon got a whole lot worse and the so called Road to Hell between Kenya and Ethiopia lived up to its name.

My thanks to the Herbiesworldtour web site for this wonderful picture!

If you want the full story and from the time they left Johannesburg you need to sign up to the Imp Clubs forum, its free.

http://forum.theimpclub.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=24534&p=233985#p233985

They are now inside the harbour and next to the VW Herbie, waiting for a ferry to take them to Turkey in a day or so.

Todays text message says they board the ferry tomorow and at 13h00 and sail at 17h00, thats really a shame as they loose a whole day driving to Coventry.

Roy

Tammie Norrie 16

This is the enlarged version of the original Tammie Norrie, as far as I know this is a first as Alec Jordan had to prepare the CNC cut files especially for this build.

Peter is a local specialist boat builder, it is he who will be assembling our kit for David the owner.

Check the hull formers, made from WBP 12mm plywoods.

We supply all materials to suit the buyers needs, in this delivery we supplied the three sheets of 6mm marine plys for the hull skins and three sheets of the 12mm WBP to build the boat around. We also supplied enough epoxy to build the boat with, 3M micro balloons and fumed silica to make filler paste from.

This shallow cut shows the builder where the center line of the panels are.

This sure takes a lot of effort out of such a build, imagine setting out and cutting by hand!

Able was there to help me off load.

I will be posting regular progress reports on this build.

Roy

Tammie Norrie 16' kit delivery

This is a handy delivery for me to make, the pro boat builder who will assemble
the TN16 row boat kit lives locally.

This is Able, he was hand shaping a pair of oars when I arrived and stopped to help
me off laod.

OZ Racer plans sold today

I was told by a designer recently that the plans trade was picking up, seems so, this is
our second plans or kit order in just over a week.

Mike Storer designed this OZ RV racer.

Oh ... I attached a photo ;) That's the RV with the leeboard. Pro


boatbuilder :)



MIK

Tammie Norrie to be built here in Hout Bay

We have an order to supply a full kit to this design and also have it built by a local
boat builder here  in Hout Bay.

http://jordanboats.co.uk/JB/clinker_ply.htm


My thanks Alec Jordan for the use of the link above.

In the case of the boat to be built here, the cut files were made up for CKD Boats cc
on a one off build basis by Jordan Boats. The licence to plans and use of the same cut files is on request for other orders.

Roy

Building our Oppikat kit

In fact it was just the bulkheads on this one, the unusual thing was we could send them to the USA by regular post. The choice was either by sea or air, the option chosen was the surafce route, it did take eight weeks but as ever the mail got there.

The strip planking has now begun, Greg has a nice work shop I note, its great to build the two at the same time but you could easily build one at a time and on a narrow counter top against a wall?

Mail from the builder:

Hi Roy,


Here's the first shot. I'm also taking a time lapse photo set.

Can't say I've ever stripped a boat before, so I'm learning, including the
need to really pick quarter sawn stock and using steam :)

Greg

Mail from The Road, waiting for a cyclone.

For a change the guys on the ground are really helping the cruising yachts, this is on the island of
Rodrigues and well done to them too!

Cyclone Imelda will be over us sometime this afternoon, early evening. The rain, and wind especially is building up quite steadily.

 

With the fantastic help from the Port Captain and his 2nd in command, The ROAD and Shayele are as secure as possible - we all worked for 2 hours in the rain this morning putting more lines out, supplied by the Port Authorities. We have never experienced - anywhere in our travels - such friendly, helpful and willing people.

 

 Will update when we can.......ebook.com/

Diesel in fresh water tanks

There is a cure and I was advising someone on the marina this weekend on what to use to clean a boats water tanks when they are just dirty from water.

Diesel is of course another matter!

I had a guy in Scotland phone me in a panic the other day. He was up there in a hired camper van and had put diesel in the fresh water tank. I asked him which way he was coming down and he was going to go M 6 and M 5 to Heathrow where he hired it from so I told him to divert to the M 1 and I would meet him at our junction 22. He arrived late last night so I sold him a bottle of our special tank cleaner and he put it in there and then and stayed the night. This morning he came round to the house as he could not find a hose at the hotel they had stayed in so I helped him flush the tanks out till there was no taste or smell of fuel.

He offered to pay me for my time but I said just send me a letter of thanks that I can use on the website, so he promised to do that. About an hour after he left he sent me a very nice text thanking me for saving his bacon as the hire company would have had a field day with that once they smelt fuel in the water, can you imagine how they would have filled their boots? The text finished by saying, 'its people like you that make the world a better place!' Shit; no one has ever said that before?

 

Notty.

Contact me if you need to get rid of diesel smell and tastes, even in the boats bilge.

How hard can that be?

Roy

 

Andre's Paper Jet 14

Seen here and as one of the best finished boat kits you will ever see, the Paper Jet 14
as a finished kit takes on a new meaning!

Andre and Helene

They are finishing a Dix 43 Pilot in steel and plan to do some cruising soon.

 Click on the pictures and check out the build and finish quality.

Roy

The JoLon Imp reaches the Equator!

Actually they went even further, it was a distance of some 196 kilometers from Nairobi to the Equator, just short of one third of the distance to the town they are heading for in Ethiopia.

This sign stands for a remarkable landmark in the JoLon Imps African part of the drive to London, England,

as Terence and Geoff are now well past the half way mark on the African continent, well done guys! 

Today we packed up our little African Imp again and bade farewell to the good friends we made at Jungle Junction and headed off to northern Kenya to tackle the most horrific road in Africa, the Marsabit Moyale road. In the dry season it is barely passable by all but top of the range 4×4 vehicles. Well now we are in the slithersome and flashflood wet season and are about to head over to Moyale in our tiny Imp. As my astute nephew Chris correctly pointed out a good off-roader is not one who does not get stuck but one who can successfully extricate himself from the jam when it occurs.
Geoff and I were super thrilled to be on the road again, and our little chariot seemed to smile along with us also as it whistled along the nice Kenyan roads with the crazy drivers.
Darkness fell as we arrived in the busy town of Nanayuki but luckily there was still enough light for us to have some nice pictures at the ‘you are now crossing the Equator’ board.
Tonight we are staying in a most stunning golf club in a quaint reed roofed hut called a Banda. Well hot showers, clean bedding, mozzie nets and absolute silence apart from the rain happy frogs in their loud cacophony outside to entertain us is a delightful change from what we have had to put up with earlier on our journey.
Tomorrow we head out at 04h30 to get some kilos under our belt before first light and then some of the dirt road will be tackled tomorrow midday to the afternoon.

Update, 17th April and they have made Addis Adaba, the last 500 kms were on the so called Road to Hell.

Roy

Wanted, a Garmin 35/36 GPS receiver or similar

This is needed as a workshop test receiver, I need one now in Cape Town, South Africa, 7806, cost plus postage please, does anyone have one spare?

This is the 35, the 36 looks the same, they can also be found in a white plastic case.
They are a 12 channel GPS receiver.

The later model looks like this.

Also acceptable!

Roy

JoLon Imp left Nairobi today

Out of Nairobi, wet or otherwise.

I think they intend leaving today.

The JoLon Imp guys have had a wet time in Nairobi, they have found the place very expensive, and a rip off, plus the local drivers seem to drive by touch, read the link below.

http://jolonimp.wordpress.com/2013/01/

Terence Tracey and Geoff Biermann, the event was a fund raiser at the Scrooge Dinner in Johannesburg. I do like that poster!

Parked outside the guest house where they felt it was safer than a camp site, power outages have been the norm while in Nairobi!

Roy

Marlow braid falls apart in the sun

To be fair its been out in the sun, wind and rain for about twelve years!

Click on the picture for a closer view.

Note that the woven casing has departed from the inner core.

Charles took me up the mast to remove the B&G mast head unit, (broke again) I was surprised to find the tail of the Marlow braid main halyard case cover in tatters, must be the UV? I cut the tail off and used the halyard anyway, the core is the bit thats rated under load, not the outer cover. Mind you its been out in our weather about 12 years now, an outer cover in a colour would probably lasted longer? I will replace it with some nice blue braid for a change.

I would seriously recomend reversing your mast halyards end for end every so often, simple to do and it may double the life of your halyards at no cost!

How unusual is that.

Roy

Guys Argie 10 kit is painted!

We sent Guy an Argie 10 kit a while back, he has reached the stage where its painted and just requires some varnish.

The deep blue does look nice but remember to cover the dark surface up, it attracts a lot of heat from the sun.

Hi Roy – I've attached one photo of the inside and one of the outside – each one coat of paint away from completion.  Still have to do the varnish work but that she not take too long.  Loads of mistakes made but I'm not unhappy with the outcome.

It looks fine to me!

Roy