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Donnerstag, 13. April 2017
CROFF CRAFT DOES SOUTH CAROLINA
It's hard not to feel like I am hyping a club dancer here but Phil Croff of Croff Craft Custom Driftboats & Guide Service is swinging down from Michigan for a couple of presentations next week that those in the Columbia and Charleston areas should scribble down on their schedules to attend.
Phily has a deep game and his presentation will cover mousing techniques, flies, wooden drift boats, brook trout, steelhead, and whatever else comes up.
Where will Phil be?
SALUDA RIVER TROUT UNLIMITED
Phil will be presenting to the Saluda River Trout Unlimited on Tuesday, January 10th, 2017. The meeting begins at 6:00 p.m. and takes place at McWaters located at 1104 Shop Road in Columbia, South Carolina. Bring $7 if you want a couple pieces of pizza and a few more dollars for the raffles.
LOWCOUNTRY FLY SHOP - MOUSING FOR TROUT SEMINAR
Come out to the Lowcountry Fly Shop on Thursday, January 12th, 2017 for Phil's presentation, drinks, and finger foods. Or BYOB. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. and the shop is located at 626 Coleman Blvd. in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
Click through to either Facebook Events page to let T.U. or L.F.S. know that you're coming.
I know that I just referenced these past T.F.M. posts the other day but if you need a reminder of what Phil Croff does, click through on these...
BIRTH OF A DRIFT BOAT - See one of Phil's boats go from lumber to finished.
MOUSE FLOAT ON RIVER X
A "NO SERVICE" KIND OF DAY
Finally, if you haven't seen it, or just need to see it again, Matt Dunn of fishbeer.com pieced together five minutes of film on Phil, the mouse game, and what it takes to build a custom wooden drift boat in Northern Michigan.
So, clear the schedule and come out for one (or both) of these presentations. Each should be a stellar time though it's unlikely you'll go home with glitter on your face...
Phily has a deep game and his presentation will cover mousing techniques, flies, wooden drift boats, brook trout, steelhead, and whatever else comes up.
Where will Phil be?
SALUDA RIVER TROUT UNLIMITED
Phil will be presenting to the Saluda River Trout Unlimited on Tuesday, January 10th, 2017. The meeting begins at 6:00 p.m. and takes place at McWaters located at 1104 Shop Road in Columbia, South Carolina. Bring $7 if you want a couple pieces of pizza and a few more dollars for the raffles.
LOWCOUNTRY FLY SHOP - MOUSING FOR TROUT SEMINAR
Come out to the Lowcountry Fly Shop on Thursday, January 12th, 2017 for Phil's presentation, drinks, and finger foods. Or BYOB. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. and the shop is located at 626 Coleman Blvd. in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
Click through to either Facebook Events page to let T.U. or L.F.S. know that you're coming.
I know that I just referenced these past T.F.M. posts the other day but if you need a reminder of what Phil Croff does, click through on these...
BIRTH OF A DRIFT BOAT - See one of Phil's boats go from lumber to finished.
MOUSE FLOAT ON RIVER X
A "NO SERVICE" KIND OF DAY
Finally, if you haven't seen it, or just need to see it again, Matt Dunn of fishbeer.com pieced together five minutes of film on Phil, the mouse game, and what it takes to build a custom wooden drift boat in Northern Michigan.
So, clear the schedule and come out for one (or both) of these presentations. Each should be a stellar time though it's unlikely you'll go home with glitter on your face...
Mittwoch, 12. April 2017
Smiths auto instruments repairs in South Africa
This Hillman Imp Mk1 speedo required a service and new parts, our courier delivered and then collected it and did a 3200 kilometer round trip while the car it belongs to went no place at all!
This of course where some of the expense comes in when restoring a classic car but part of the issue is just knowing who to sent the Smiths speedo marked in kilometers to in the first place.
Roy
Click on the image for a larger view, the camera is a Canon G1X digital.
This of course where some of the expense comes in when restoring a classic car but part of the issue is just knowing who to sent the Smiths speedo marked in kilometers to in the first place.
Roy
Freitag, 7. April 2017
Happy on his boat in Hout Bay South Africa
What can be better than messing about on boats!
Sailing is just part of the fun in boat ownership, Francois built his boat back in 1977 and is still having fun.
Seen here at the HBBY and would you believe just at the start of spring here in the cape.
Boat ownership, its fantastic!
Roy
Sailing is just part of the fun in boat ownership, Francois built his boat back in 1977 and is still having fun.
Seen here at the HBBY and would you believe just at the start of spring here in the cape.
Boat ownership, its fantastic!
Roy
Freitag, 31. März 2017
Building a DS 15 kit boat in South Africa
Didi 15 for your blog.
Going together nicely. Jim
This is Jims boat, we sent him a DS 15 kit recently, building the Dix Design kit is really simple, I know that as I have built three from 21 feet to 26 feet myself and in the same year.
Click on the picture for a larger image.
Jim that level really is spot on!
Roy
Going together nicely. Jim
This is Jims boat, we sent him a DS 15 kit recently, building the Dix Design kit is really simple, I know that as I have built three from 21 feet to 26 feet myself and in the same year.
Click on the picture for a larger image.
Jim that level really is spot on!
Roy
Donnerstag, 16. März 2017
A world first Mirror Dinghy kits to be CNC cut in South Africa
Mirror Dinghy news:
I note that the South African world champions won in the plywood / epoxy version of the Mirror Dinghy class, well done to both of you!
Note, both the Ply/Epoxy and the GRP boats need to have a minimum weight of 45.5 kgs, so there is no difference between either. Corrector weights to 3.0kg are allowed, once placed and fixed at the thwart, they are marked and become part of the boats measurement certificate.
Unknown to myself, I was informed only yesterday that when we start CNC cutting our Mirror Dinghy kits we will become the fist such company or person to such a thing.
What a privilege!
Roy
See also www.www.com
At the 2013 Mirror Worlds held on Lough Derg, N. Ireland, South African's Ryan & Michaela Robinson where crowned World Champions!
Lough Derg Yacht Club in Dromineer, North Tipperary, hosted the 2013 Mirror World Sailing Championship, the first world sailing championship to be held on the inland waters of Ireland.
I note that the South African world champions won in the plywood / epoxy version of the Mirror Dinghy class, well done to both of you!
Note, both the Ply/Epoxy and the GRP boats need to have a minimum weight of 45.5 kgs, so there is no difference between either. Corrector weights to 3.0kg are allowed, once placed and fixed at the thwart, they are marked and become part of the boats measurement certificate.
Unknown to myself, I was informed only yesterday that when we start CNC cutting our Mirror Dinghy kits we will become the fist such company or person to such a thing.
What a privilege!
Roy
See also www.www.com
Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2017
The story behind the 30 square design in South Africa
Its quite a story too, once the best boats in the country, they fell into disrepair but when they were
being raced as a Lipton Cup fleet they were some of the best in the world?
Click on the picture to view full size.
The event was the TBA Easter Regatta at the V&A Waterfront around 1998,
the long boat on the left just behind the smaller boat is the locally built version of the 30 square and named Sonnet.
Roy
This was an owners view of the 30 square class.
being raced as a Lipton Cup fleet they were some of the best in the world?
Click on the picture to view full size.
The event was the TBA Easter Regatta at the V&A Waterfront around 1998,
the long boat on the left just behind the smaller boat is the locally built version of the 30 square and named Sonnet.
Roy
This was an owners view of the 30 square class.
Hi Roy & Justin
This link will take you to just about the whole history of the 30-square class in SA.
I have owned three of them at one time or another.
First was Sunmaid purchased from Colin Bowley in 1974 after the Lipton Cup was awarded to another more popular racing class so we would race among the remaining members who still owned a 30-Square.
I sold Sunmaid to Capt. Jacob Johansson who was the skipper of the dynamite ship that would become a floating bomb shipping dynamite from the AE&CI works in the Cape to be used in the mines in Zambia while Rhodesia was involved in its struggle to survive the winds of change. Jacob encased the whole of Sunmaid in GRP to prolong its sailing days but she was sadly broken up and sold for her lead content eventually.
Sonnet was designed by Uffa Fox and was double planked and far heavier built for Cape Town conditions while the imported boats almost all had to have extra steel frames inserted between the oak frames to stop them breaking up in the heavy seas around the Cape.
I understand that a 30-square was clocked at 17-knots on one race in Table Bay.
I acquired Sonnet from Alan Duncan's widow after his death. He had owned and sailed Sonnet with Jock Gray for years in Table Bay from the RCYC and that's how I fitted into the chain by having sailed a lot on Sonnet with Jock as well as some of the other yachts he was minding. Mike Daily bought Sonnet from me in around 1988 I think when I needed the mooring for my new boat Jacana. Mike then set about rebuilding the boat to its present fine condition.
I was then presented with Tricksen by Dave Woolf on the understanding that I remove her from the RCYC boat yard as he had also sold her for scrap I understand, but I was never really the owner.
Notty.
Justin searched this link out:
Great bit in Wikipedia of all places on these see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skerry_Cruiser
With luck he will open a page on his SA Yacht blog
http://sayachts.blogspot.com/ this is the only place to start when you want to know the history about yachts built in South Africa.
Justin searched this link out:
With luck he will open a page on his SA Yacht blog
http://sayachts.blogspot.com/ this is the only place to start when you want to know the history about yachts built in South Africa.
Montag, 16. Januar 2017
Hout Bay the home of Hillman Imps in South Africa
Imps have been a part of my life for a very long time, ten in all and counting the return of one that was sold four and a half years back I guess thats now car number eleven.
Right now the 1971 Hillman Imp under a full restoration is away for other works and the 1967 Hillman Californian Coupe is having new front suspensions fitted.
Do you know of any Hillman Imps in South Africa for sale?
Engine rebuild parts are in stock, restored cars are a possibility but we need more cars.
Roy
Right now the 1971 Hillman Imp under a full restoration is away for other works and the 1967 Hillman Californian Coupe is having new front suspensions fitted.
Hillman Californinan Coupe, a rare export model.
New parts in the front brakes include the cylinders, lininings and flexible hose to the brake fluid.
The steering rack rubber gaiter is a very hard to find part.
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Pre assembly sorts out where each bolt belongs.
Engine rebuild parts are in stock, restored cars are a possibility but we need more cars.
Roy
Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2017
The DS15 racer sail boat in South Africa
We have just been asked to supply a DS15 sail boat kit.
http://www.dixdesign.com/DS15.htm
The difference with this kit order is that it will be built here in South Africa, so from a kit a new class will soon start.
This DS15 was built from a kit.
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.
But this boat is schitzophrenic, it has a very different alternative personality for those who want to have some high-performance fun. Remove the ballast bulb from the daggerboard and she morphs to what I originally intended with this design. She becomes a high performance skiff with one or two trapezes for adults.
Construction is over permanent bulkheads and a ladder-frame backbone, with stringers. Most of the hull is 6mm sheet plywood, the exception being the radius area that is done with two layers of 3mm. The topside chine uses a stitch-&-glue joint and increases the power from the stern when power-reaching. The deck and cockpit are all 6mm sheet plywood using stitch-&-glue detailing.
All information is from the designers web site.
Roy
http://www.dixdesign.com/DS15.htm
The difference with this kit order is that it will be built here in South Africa, so from a kit a new class will soon start.
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 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.
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.
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.
This DS15 was built from a kit.
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.
But this boat is schitzophrenic, it has a very different alternative personality for those who want to have some high-performance fun. Remove the ballast bulb from the daggerboard and she morphs to what I originally intended with this design. She becomes a high performance skiff with one or two trapezes for adults.
Construction is over permanent bulkheads and a ladder-frame backbone, with stringers. Most of the hull is 6mm sheet plywood, the exception being the radius area that is done with two layers of 3mm. The topside chine uses a stitch-&-glue joint and increases the power from the stern when power-reaching. The deck and cockpit are all 6mm sheet plywood using stitch-&-glue detailing.
All information is from the designers web site.
Roy
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