12' Aluminium Skiff Kit

[Maker]

Paint it gold and call it "SS BetterThanYourCrapYacht"

 

[Hood]

Paint it wood grain effect and pretend you have one of these.

 

[Wedg1e]

I get the first three but what's the end meant to be? Tin Boat?

Na Ti Nb At H?

Tin bath

...and no offence intended to Jim, obviously

 

[Wendelspanswick]

The other half suggested Metallica.

Here's something I've been given. It's incomplete, it was put away wet, was siezed but now isn't, and has a few broken bolts and a snapped off gear-lever. I broke the bolts, not the gear-lever .

It needs a full strip down, probably two crankshaft bearings and a set of rings, plus gaskets, three broken bolts drilling and helicoiling and a missing recoil starter assembly. Oh and the carb is full of rusty gunk and needs a rebuild. I suspect the fuel pump is full of gunge too. But apart from that it's everything I have come to expect from a "free" outboard motor.

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I've got the long shaft version in the workshop somewhere, left over from my boat owning days. I keep meaning to go mackerel fishing with it in the inflatable tender each summer but it never happens!

 

[Kent]

Long term plan is a gunning punt and a centre console large Ali dory for me. Not yet, when I have more time than things to do with it though, good luck

 

[Jim Davey]

Long term plan is a gunning punt and a centre console large Ali dory for me. Not yet, when I have more time than things to do with it though, good luck

You could adapt something like this...

Or maybe something simpler like this...

 

[Hood]

No progress?

 

[Jim Davey]

I was going to do something on it over the weekend as I have a Phoenix MIG in at the moment but I got invited out on my friends RIB on Saturday and so that means I'm on jobs round the house today.
Can't play both days.

 

[Jim Davey]

But the Phoenix is due in at a customer first thing Monday so I don't know when exactly I might get back on it.
I have been approached by at least two interested parties to make them one so I'll have to pull my finger out soon enough.

 

[Jim Davey]

It's needed to work on this...

 

[Jim Davey]

I think it is owned by one of the bosses of O2 mobile phone network.

 

[indy4x]

I was going to do something on it over the weekend as I have a Phoenix MIG in at the moment but I got invited out on my friends RIB on Saturday and so that means I'm on jobs round the house today.
Can't play both days.

So it's not just me then, although I get grief if I have a play day more than once a month

 

[Jim Davey]

You are not alone. I didn't even ask if I could be released to go work on the boat today. I just know the response I'd get

 

[indy4x]

That sounds oh so familiar

 

[Jim Davey]

I'll keep plugging away at her. I might get a few hours this afternoon if I'm a good boy.

 

[indy4x]

TBF, as long as I'm within the boundary of our house and it's a weekday evening I'm usually OK playing in the garage, I do like to go green laning and other off road activities on the weekend and these are what usually causes me the most grief along with weekends spent in the garage

 

[addjunkie]

TBF, as long as I'm within the boundary of our house and it's a weekday evening I'm usually OK playing in the garage, I do like to go green laning and other off road activities on the weekend and these are what usually causes me the most grief along with weekends spent in the garage

You chaps shouldnt moan about being nagged by you partners....you choose them. Therefore a self i flicted injury.

 

[Jim Davey]

Who's moaning? This is the reality of bieng in a relationship.

 

[Robotstar5]

I haven't seen Mrs Robo most of today, I've learnt that when she's "just going to do something" at the stable it can turn into hours, she went out at 10 this morning and came in at 5 and I didn't even get the day to myself as I had to do battle with a broken kitchen sink waste.

 

[angellonewolf]

^^^^^ a sink waste took from 10-5 better not give up the day job