Making a plank for a viking ship, have a look at the video to see whats involved.

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This is one of the Glen-l home build cruisers [www.glen-l.com] I like it,

Hi Fergal,
That Glen cruiser is a real beauty. He has a great pair of hands.
Interesting to see that he is getting fuel economy of 1 US gallon per hour
at 7 mph. At that rate with the cost of green diesel plus the tax at the end
of the year the gap is closing to the point that a good outboard could make
economic sense for Irish boats.
Paddy

During the recent HBA event a pair of fine Coracles built by Claidhb O Gibne using the taditional method were on display. Four Coracles built by a team of local craftsmen to the more modern Banagher method were also on display. A race and coracleball match proved to be great success.

The Banagher craft costs about 50 euro and takes about four hours to complete

The Banagher coracles I am told will be on the water again at the Shannon Harbour Rally


Many thanks to Claidhb O Gibne and Tommy McLoughlan for all the help with getting the Coracle to the Shannon

Donal Boland
M.V.James & Mary
Meelick in the rain

Excellent. I wonder if the compost toilet is available on this side? A really interesting solution to a perennial problem.

And how about the lack of air conditioning! Not a big problem in this county methinks

Joe

This may be of interest, in case we are surprised by a Viking longboat on Derg next year.
Trainees with CELT (Centre for Environmental Living and Training), the East Clare-based charity NGO, are building a traditional lake boat in the clinker-built Viking style. According to CELT tutor Del Harding, who is supervising the work over several weekends at his workshop in Bealkelly Wood, Tuamgraney, boats south of the Shannon have followed a design brought by Celts from the Mediterranean region but north of the Shannon was very much influenced by the Vikings.

When the boat is complete, it will be used for display and training purposes and can easily be fitted with a mast and square sail to replicate the form of a Viking longship as a tourism attraction for local festivals and other events.

The course is supported by funding under the LEADER programme along with other courses including Plant Magic with Kes Clarke at Caher Rice, Feakle (8 days during summer) and Artist Blacksmithing with Mark Wilson at the Forge, Mountshannon (various weekends).

Also supported by the LEADER programme (administered by Clare Local Development Company) is CELT Summer Weekend in the Woods at Bealkelly Wood, Tuamgraney, on 2nd and 3rd July where a special new course – Family Bushcraft – is offered for parent and child learning skills together.

The planking on the hull is finished now for a few weeks of sanding to get it as smooth as possible. I only used the mahogany up to what I think will be the water line as bellow that will be painted and mahogany aint cheep looks like I have to do a bit of a clean up too


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Coracles were great hit at the Shannon Harbour Rally
Saturday saw the construction of a new coracle and a new skin fitted to a 10 year old model from the Gortmore stable

Next event for the Coracles is the Derg Rally

Donal
Back at Banagher for a day or so

I now have my engine rebuilt and sitting on a mock of the hull to work out the prop shaft angle before I drill the hole in the boat. In the ski boat the angle was 17 degrees but I want to get down to about 13 this means I will have to make a new strut or if anyone knows of a place here that sells struts that will take a 1" shaft that would be great.
Thanks.

Hi Fergal

Just looking at your engine pics.
The drive belt routing is very interesting around the water pump pulley!
A shorter belt, running in the crank and alternator pulleys would surely be better, no?
I've never seen a belt running on the nose of a pulley like that before and strongly suspect the diameter there will not be the same as in the vee where the other belt runs. That'll cause some slip and wear.
Also, a 180 degree wrap around the alternator pulley will provide a much better grip meaning less likelihood of squeal from the belts when trying to charge a flat battery.
Keep the posts coming. Yours are some of the ones I look forward to most...

Duncan

Duncan

Dont worry the belt was just sitting there as it was too small and I have the new one on it now and it's in the grove.

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Hi Fergal
Just looking at your engine pics.
The drive belt routing is very interesting around the water pump pulley!
A shorter belt, running in the crank and alternator pulleys would surely be better, no?
I've never seen a belt running on the nose of a pulley like that before and strongly suspect the diameter there will not be the same as in the vee where the other belt runs. That'll cause some slip and wear.
Also, a 180 degree wrap around the alternator pulley will provide a much better grip meaning less likelihood of squeal from the belts when trying to charge a flat battery.
Keep the posts coming. Yours are some of the ones I look forward to most...

Duncan

This is just a few of my ebay finds The old windshield brackets are very hard to find at a good price and in good nick they also go for silly money even repo ones are hard to get. I set a limit of $100 at the start of my build for them and after been out bid a 100 times I won a set two weeks ago along with a 1950's foot throttle.



Next up the postman brought me my exhaust tips $4 plus $15 to post. I thought these would look better than the ones I got with the ski boat, I started polishing out the pitting on one today and it come up ok.



And last is my set of faria gauges I splashed out on these $61 as I think they look the part even though the speedo only goes up to 50 MPH

Hi Fergal

Something wrong with all the links to your Faria gauges.
However, Faria are good stuff, on a par with OE equipment instruments! $61 sounds incredibly cheap for them, as usuallythey'd be around that EACH!
They're the ones I usually use. From my perspective the long term reliability is top notch, but from the end user's perspective the ability to choose an instrument that looks like the rest of the dash and works with existing senders is king!
How about a pic of your finished panel, whenever it's ready?

Duncan

Thats strange I can see them, I will put one up from photobucket. I'm a bit off building the dash yet it's just they came along at the right price and had they had retro look, I used faria in my last build and liked them although I did spend some time looking at old smiths gauges it was hard to get good clean ones at a good price.

It's alive and soon to be on a quite river near you
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Isn't that some lovely noise! Sounds a bit like a small version of what I have sitting outside the house on four wheels.The block looks a bit like a Ford Windsor, is it? Or is it a Mercruiser-built?
Hey, what about meeting up at a bridge on a nice summer's day (next year ...?) and make a bit of noise together ?

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Isn't that some lovely noise! Sounds a bit like a small version of what I have sitting outside the house on four wheels.The block looks a bit like a Ford Windsor, is it? Or is it a Mercruiser-built?
Hey, what about meeting up at a bridge on a nice summer's day (next year ...?) and make a bit of noise together ?

She is a small block chevy engine the same block as GM, mercruiser.
A bridge meet would be good, I think the acoustics are best at 4am on sunday mornings.

As the weather looks good I decided to do the fiberglassing, I first lay out the cloth and and let it settle over night





Just doing one side at a time I am able to get 4 coats of resin on in a day with a 3 hour gap between each coat, when the boat is done it will be washed and sanded and given another filler coat or two before I paint and varnish it.

First coat of primer I will sand this down with 600 paper and do two more coats and sand again


First coat of paint "roll and tipped" I will do another 3 or 4 coats with a light sanding in between then on the last coat I will sand it with 800, 1000, 1500, 2000, wet and then rubbing compound.




Drilled out the hole for the prop shaft , I had been putting it off a bit as there is no room for a mistake here.The angle was worked out from the engine setup and then marked on a bit of scrap wood where I drilled out a hole to take the extension bar holding the 2" bit, I also put a block of wood on the keel inside and out the same angle as the bit to give the tip a starting point and so it would not start walking when it came through.



All in all it went well except for the sawdust and smoke under the boat from drilling a 10" x 2" hole in mahogany while lying on your back, in the end it came out spot on target I now have to epoxy in a fiberglass tube to seal it up and then cut it down to size.



I have now started work on the trailer so I can flip the boat on to it .


I'm a bit tight for space but she is striped down now and will get all new bolts,bearings,brake pads and a bit of a clean up.

Thanks for the great posts.
Nice to see somebody doing things right.
Most folks would have considered that trailer good enough, even if only for financial reasons.
No half measures here, though.
Nice one!

Duncan

Duncan