Cuchilo
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Reged: 19/04/2003
Posts: 4515
Loc: London
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She left Scotland around lunch time and is making her way to London  woooohooooo
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Dont come running to me if you fall over and break your leg .
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Ramage
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Reged: 09/07/2006
Posts: 542
Loc: Hampton Hill
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Very pretty.
What is she?
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Paul
http://www.braycruiserclub.co.uk/
http://www.birchwoodboats.aceboard.com/
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Cuchilo
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Reged: 19/04/2003
Posts: 4515
Loc: London
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Its a boat 
She has just turned up and been covered over for the night . A massive thanks to Ken for doing the towing , you are a star mate and it was great to meet you .
There is loads of history with her but i will go through that tomorrow . As far as i know she has been in storage pretty much since she was built around the mid 50's but as i said loads of info to read up on . woooooooohooooooooo
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MajorCatastrophe
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Reged: 31/05/2005
Posts: 15809
Loc: ust plague be upon you
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More pictures please. Lots more.
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AlistairR
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Reged: 12/12/2002
Posts: 8453
Loc: North Ayrshire/ Loch Lomond.
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So my services weren.t needed after all!
And i was really looking forward to seeing her in the flesh.
She does look nice, I'll look forward to seeing all the pics of her in her rebuild.
Good luck.
Cheers
Al.
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Video of Callum.
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Cuchilo
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Reged: 19/04/2003
Posts: 4515
Loc: London
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Hi Al , not this time but thanks for the help you where willing to give 
A bit more history as i go through it ....
It was ordered to be built at the lower docks in Perth by Melville marine . She was then passed to Glasgow based Cameron and cambell where she was purchased by a Mr Larry Marshall ( from the 1 o clock gang )  The boat was only in the water a few times as Larry had taken a fall off the back of it so it was put into dry storage .
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Cuchilo
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Reged: 19/04/2003
Posts: 4515
Loc: London
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MajorCatastrophe
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Reged: 31/05/2005
Posts: 15809
Loc: ust plague be upon you
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Let's see cabinet maker with a wooden boat.
Yes, all the boxes get ticked.
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Chrusty1
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Reged: 27/02/2008
Posts: 847
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I think she has a huge amount of potential, I came across this in my travels, don't know if you will get any useful tips from it, but I thought I would pass it on......
http://www.glen-l.com/submethd.html
If you look down the menu you will see that there is a piece about building a mahogony runabout.
Edited by Chrusty1 (08/06/2008 15:43)
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Cuchilo
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Reged: 19/04/2003
Posts: 4515
Loc: London
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Thanks for the link , could come in handy but it seems all the structual parts are fine Barry came over today and we had a chat about what we are going to do with her or how far we are willing to go . Looking at the storage pictures of the fore deck there seems to of been some water damage so it has been rubbed back and revarnished and then stick on tape was added to redo the stripes . So we decided to go the whole hog with getting the outside right as all of the inside and structure seems for now to be fine .
In true male style we took her apart 
We got all the old varnish off the decks and found the trace lines of where the patterns had been painted on before . The plan was to get it back to bare timber to see if we wanted to replace the ply and inlay timber but as the deck is ok we have decided to keep it . As it is stored at my place i can mess around in the evenings filling pin holes and tarting up the deck ready for another sanding and then next weekend we can flip her over and start on her bum . Once that is done we can flip her back over and start on finishing the deck etc .
I was going to keep a log of the work on here but not sure if
1 Anyone is interested and
2 Should it be here or in classic
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