Jasper & Gem Rothesay Dock 17 06 2013

Do you mind if I share this picture on facebook?

fine pic
jasper looking brilliant

Fantastic work, she looks superb, how's the engine build coming along.

Bob

Dennis. You are more than welcome to share, the more people that see what can actually be achieved with these older but beautiful hulls, might inspire people to take on similar, or skippers to sell the conversion opportunity and the licence as opposed to chain sawing years of history/heritage in hours/days. Contradictory to above comment, We decommissioned our boat the Regina Maris. What I will say, based on the relatively short time that I have had Jasper, is that if anyone is thinking about taking on this type of project it is not all money then how am I going to achieve this! There will always be someone to help and there is oodles of advice also from people who have had the experience in converting who are always happy to help/advise. it is not a lonely world. I have Hugh the Ocean Gem alongside me, he has a lot of knowledge when it comes to this.
Dennis when you get to Rothesay dock ask Hugh to take you down bellow if you like, you are more than welcome. one of my friends and my son work away at her while I am at sea they might also be there.
Bob nothing on the engine yet, I plan to gut/clean/paint the engine room and make sure the tanks are still good before I rebuild the Gardner. this is the winter project.

Rgds

Donald

Thanks a lot Donald,will definately take the time to go and see her.Amazing what you're doing and looking forward to seeing her.I remember the day she came home new.Them were the days.

Good luck with that Donald, that's a good plan get sealed up and watertight then she makes a fine workshop for the engine work.
Really look forward to seeing her progress.

Cheers
Bob

Donald

When you get round to the Varnishing  -  I have been applying and scraping back and applying and scraping back ad infinitum varnish for 35 years of my 50 and I am furious that I have only now discovered this stuff -
Le Tonkinois Varnish
No Chemicals just Oils and it truly does what it says on the tin.

http://www.letonkinoisvarnish.co.uk/

Hi Angus.
   Thank you for the advice, this is reasuring as I have 2 x 2.5Ltr tins onboard that I bought from john at trad boats as well as the Danish oil and tack cloths etc. I know that it should be kept nice and warm in the house, there came a point though that there was more of the boat in the house than house, so all the boat stuff got taken back down to Rothesay dock.

It will be warmed up before application though.

Are there different variations of the letonkinois varnish as I only purchased what was recommended by john.

Obviously I have not tested it on any wood yet.

If you can let me know which one you have if there are more than one, so that I can see what I have when I get home. All I know is that it is in a metalic gold coloured tin.

Once again Angus, thanks for the advice.

Regards

Donald

Hi
Have you decided what you are going to put on your deck  ? I have been putting boiled linseed oil on Shemaron , the decks are fine in the winter but after a hot dry spell they leak i wondered if perhaps paint would be better ,  i love what your doing with Jasper

Chris

We used to put 3-4 coats of 50-50 linseed and thinners mixed, then a couple of coats of linseed, thinners and deck varnish, it worked a treat. Give the first coats a chance for the deck to suck it in, if the decks realy dry more thinners to the first coats mix.
Dont be afraid to use plenty the deck will soon take it in if its realy dry. A big soft floor brush best for the job.