Alfresco

[great white]

Thanks again guys

 

another day when the shoulder are reminding me of the effort over the weekend

 

Sam has spent most of the weekend cleaning and polishing and is as tired as his Dad.

 

Dan has been using his resistant material schooling to good effect and the recently aquired splicing skills to sort out lines and fenders .

 

Wendy as usual has been supplying tea refreshments and encouragement shopping etc etc

 

Rob the very bare boat was craned into the garden Feb 2006 so its been a long project

This shows how she was on arrival, loaded with materials and smaller mouldings for seat etc

No idea how many hours have been spent on her since, I never started counting

 

Charlie

[TomBettle]

This is wonderful news Charlie.

 

I can't wait to see her afloat.

 

Am I allowed to come down to see the first launch at Salterns?

 

Good luck with any last minute tinkering!

 

Tom

[great white]

Hi Tom

 

I may need to escape the frustration at Salterns if I have to wait around

and Pop along to your office.

 

Of course you are welcome I expect a few may turn up although I doubt I will be cracking beers at 0900.

 

Charlie

 

 

 

[alun j.]

Charlie,

 

When is she going into the water??

 

Can we come see??

 

Alun.

[mw]

she looks a nice boat charlie are you sure you want fish blood and guts on her?

what hull is it?

mark w

 

 

[Les L.]

Hats off to you and the family Charlie, what a great result !

[great white]

Hi Alun

 

She should be launching this Friday as soon as I can get her to Salterns and the engineers to fit the props

Crane is due at the house at 08.00

 

You are welcome if you want to pop down

 

Mark

She is an Offshore Pro Charter 30

Alfresco has been made as nice as possible inside but is still intended to be a fishing boat that will get used and then cleaned.

 

That said Wendy has stated that the forward Cabin is a no go in fishing gear

 

The boys and I should not take long before we are allowed to get the rods back out

[charlieannear]

Absolutely fantastic!

Well done to all of those who have put in so much effort to get to this point, and good luck for the trials.

Looking forward to seeing you out there... assuming that is I get out there myself!

 

C.

[Paul D]

Charlie,

 

Give us a shout on Friday. Should be in the car park off the needles.

 

 

[great white]

Hi Paul

 

No problem, If I can call from the garden we should be in range when afloat

 

If we were not limited to range for sea trails we may have popped over to say hello

 

Tight lines it looks like we both have fair weather

 

Charlie

[Sinbad]

Charlie

Are you taking any rods with you on Friday?????

 

Go on..... you know you want to.........

 

 

Paul

 

 

[Coddy]

Good luck Charlie for Friday

 

Hope all goes well

 

Coddy

[great white]

Well at last the Boat is afloat

 

after a very busy day with a crane and boat transporter blocking the road outside the house the front garden looks a mess and is now boatless

 

She was transported very safely and with minimal fuss to Salterns

Thanks Johnm Weaver cranage and Malcolm Elvey boat transport.

 

The boatyard team from Salterns were excellent and Martin their engineer made short work of a PDI He fitted the loaned duo props [G7's]and a couple of minor faults before getting the engine running smoothly at the back of our new offshore 30. He joined us for Sea trails and off we went down through a very tight marina and out into the harbour

A slow meander down the north channel to allow the engine to reach operating temperature then a brief stop to check for leaks and faults and of we go up the Main channel

 

3000 RPM has the gps on 28knots over the ground and then up to a limit of 3300 revs and 32 knots

 

I am sure you can all imagine the smiles on the boys faces, flat calm day in the sun and a boat "Doing what it said on the tin"

Offshore stated just over 30 knots, we have the full length cabin, galley shower etc and still get over 30 knots NICE.

 

Martin advises a change of props as the RPM is a bit low, so back we go through the narrow route in Salterns and He changes the props to G5's while we are afloat

 

Martin B popped over for a chat and happily held the boat in place while this was done, then out again to continue sea trials

 

This time the rpm reached 3550 and we had lost about a knot at WOT. we have agreed that this is probably the best set of props so have left them on for more tests over the weekend.

 

I would like to say here that the help received from PMS and Salterns about all snags encountered with this complex engine fit has been rapid and excellent. and the whole team at Salterns could not have been more helpfull than they were today.

 

Thanks for all the encouragement recently and through the whole project to all that have ether visited the house or talked about the build at the club meetings on the forums and on PM's

and to friends who came down today to wish us luck and have freely given of time expertise and even parts towards this very long and complex project

 

I hope that when I have recovered from the recent long hours {and todays very early 0500 and excited waking up] I can colate enough info and pictures to have an after meeting chat to members about this

 

I also hope to get the rods out very soon so the boys and I can get out doing what we like to do most.

SEE YOU AFLOAT

 

Sorry their are no pictures I am struggling to get windows vista to allow me to reduce the size so that they can be added here.

Any Tips?

 

Charlie

Back on the water again at last

 

PJ you can tell Norman he has a ride for the Open

can someone update me on where to fish

[TomBettle]

Hi Charlie

 

She looked fantastic and the preformance sounds spot on too!

Well done to all of you for an amazing job.

 

I tried to email these to you, but I may have a wrong email address for you.

Not pro quality, just from a mobile phone, but the first shows Alfresco squeezing out of the slings and the seconds shows her heading out of the basin at Salterns boat yard.

 

Have huge amounts of fun with her.

 

Tom

 

 

 

 

[djredrupp]

charlie, use paint to resize photos on vista, its by far the easiest way without using photshop etc!

 

congrats on the launch!!

 

Dan

[Bob F]

Fantastic to see pictures of her on the water, Charlie. And no leaks!!

 

That's really good performance figures. I bet you and the boys are well chuffed.

 

Was the water line where you expected it to be?

 

A deserved pat on the back to you all. I think I'll have a drink now to celebrate (any excuse).

 

cheers

 

BF

Edited November 18, 2007 by Bob F

[Sinbad]

Hi Charlie

Had an extenal look at her sitting in the marina on Sunday!

I expect you wouldnt have wanted to leave her tugging away on the mooring with all that wind forecast...

Not a good day to be out boating, so your timing was spot on for the Friday for the sea trials, and the best possible day for trying her out.

 

Well Done

 

Paul