RIB 4 Macmillan - Project Gallery - Page 5

biffer · 04 November 2013, 17:54

Think I've cured the winch post

biffer · 05 November 2013, 09:01

That's better. A night sleep makes the grey matter work

biffer · 05 November 2013, 11:18

There ya go

biffer · 06 November 2013, 10:16

It's done, let it settle and wait till we get all the kit on it to look at balance and nose weight

C2 RIBS · 06 November 2013, 14:14

Here is some new kit for the boat. I have purchased a set of "charter" standard flares for this boat as seen in the attached image.
This includes
Watertight container
Four x red parachutes
Six red handheld flares
Two smoke canisters

All valid until 2016

These are purchased from our friends at Fetch tradeing item data - VIKING-LIFE

Will drop to Biffs soon

biffer · 08 November 2013, 09:36

Just got the flares from Ian at C2ribs. Thanks mate.

biffer · 08 November 2013, 12:13

She's on her way

Christopher · 08 November 2013, 14:51

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Originally Posted by biffer

She's on her way

Now safe and sound in landlocked Wincanton.

biffer · 12 November 2013, 18:45

Just took delivery of the frame all wrapped up

whisper · 12 November 2013, 20:31

TUBE NEWS!

Ok, so after an email from Chris at Henshaw Inflatables to say that he had decided to donate a brand new set of tubes for our Macmillan Rib I dicided to pop down there with the guy who donated the boat

After a long discussion of what we were going to do we all felt like this was an opportunity not to be missed and a chance to make our project a little bit special...

After laying out several of the fabrics we came to a final decision on the spec of the new tubes, ok so here it goes...

Henshaw's are going to make a set of identical tubes in terms of design however there will be one difference, the colour

What we have decided on is to change the colour of the tubes to black with all black fittings and the Avon rubbing strakes also in black

The fabric that has been chosen is Black Velvet 1500gsm 1670 detex Hypalon

This is much more durable than the normal 1300gsm, it has a soft feel to it but has a matt appearance

On the way home I picked up a set of brand new Black FC470 paddles again donated by our anonymous boat collector

It was great meeting the team at Henshaws, what a great team

So, now over to Chris to show us how it's all done

Here's a pic of the fabric, the rubbing strakes in the photo are there to see the colour and they are not the type being used...

Low Flyer · 13 November 2013, 17:34

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Unpicking the rather soggy upholstery. New foam will be supplied by Southern Foam as original is perished. We will have all recovered by end of next week.

Low Flyer · 13 November 2013, 17:38

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Couple more pics.

whisper · 13 November 2013, 18:33

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Originally Posted by Low Flyer

Rancid mate. Did you have that image of seat back ?

Here you go

Sorry that I don't have any measurements but I do know that the lower bolt on the back seat rest had missed the bar completely and was held on by a penny washer that overlapped the bar.

whisper · 13 November 2013, 18:42

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Originally Posted by matt h

im sure i have that blanking plate, do you mean the black one, as all it have was two holes, one for a voltmeter and one waterproof toggle switch for the nav lights,, thats all it had to keep it genuine.. shall i have a look around to see if i can find it dude?

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Originally Posted by matt h

ok will do. im sure it was supposed to have a VDO volt meter in it

Hi Matt, here are a couple of pictures of the switch plate, ignore the lefthand switch as it was added in at some stage to switch a strobe light that has since been removed.

From memory the volt meter isn't that good as you can hardly see through the glass.

When new the switch would have had a waterproof sleeve on the stalk but these have perished at the bottom.

whisper · 13 November 2013, 18:59

An update from Henshaw's....

The deck is covered in cardboard to protect biffer's awesome deck work.

Next the transom cap is unscrewed and all the other tube retaining straps are removed.

Using a heat gun the glue is carefully softened and the tubes are carefully removed so that they can be restored by the Henshaw Team at a later date

So everything needs to be saved.

whisper · 13 November 2013, 19:23

Now all the old glue has to be removed, this is scraped away or removed by a rotary nylon brush which is air powered...

This is a time consuming job but it has to be done to prepare the surface for the primer...

whisper · 13 November 2013, 19:30

The Flange is primed with a Bostik 9252 primer, they always use this primer as it helps improve the adhesion

So far this work has taken about two days and the Team are under no pressure at all by Chris to get the job done as their only target is to get the job right

The workshop that you can see in the background in these photos represents about 15% of the total space a Henshaw's

this is a very impressive environment

whisper · 13 November 2013, 19:44

This a pic of the old tubes and the last picture I have at the moment.

To be continued....

whisper · 14 November 2013, 17:17

Our tubes are being hand crafted, the small webbing tab has been sewn on and the parts that attach the transom flange to the tubes are being measured and trimmed to size...