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I'm doing something about it though Trev ! Picked her up on New Year's Eve. First jabs and Microchipped today. Up every 1½ to 2½ hours during the night. We're both cream crackered. But looking forward to plenty of long walks in the future. She's a Beagle - ¼ Jack Russell cross. I'm in love ! ! 😍

take care all, i had omicron a couple of weeks before christmas, it is not a walk in the park as many are trying to suggest. I was completely taken out for two weeks. Not a feeling i wish to repeat. Wear FFP2 masks whenever you are in a public place.

Thank you very much chaps yes getting up near the R don’t want to think about it yet had a lovely day out, back home relaxing with a few drinks back to work tomorrow 🥲😉 Old git Kev 👍

December Fish of the Month winner. 1st Place; Charlie Chapman Bull Huss 13lb 8oz 113% Specimen 2nd Place; Charlie Chapman Bull Huss 12lb 8oz 104% Specimen 3rd Place; Allan Green Whiting 3lb 8oz 100% Specimen 4th Place; Nigel Allen Blonde Ray 23lb 12oz 95% Specimen £25 Voucher £25 Voucher with Andy @ Poole Sea Angling Nigel. Well done guys for registering your catches, shows you have to be in it to win it on the count back.

Hear hear Jim...

You're on the mend though Matt so good news. I'm old & fat . . . . & unfit! So I don't want it.

How sweet is that !! [emoji1303] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Many Thanks for all the Birthday Wishes, I had a lovely day 👍👍

i am sure she will be lots of fun. but those jack russell crosses can be handfulls. i had a boarder collie/russell cross, he was a complete bugger.

Thanks Charlie, Im sure a few of us would love to see some of your build pictures. I am not sure what I need to do below the deck yet, but Im expecting to need to do the stringers in both planes. Good idea about making a cardboard template, I throw loads of very large sheets of cardboard away from my work.

I can confirm this.............. 🤣 ( and relate to it). 😁

Thanks Jim There were some evening just sat in the garden on the boat "Thinking" most vivid memory, an afternoon off work that was spent making a tube for in the wheelhouse for the cables to pass up through for lights radar etc etc I was fairly pleased with it by the time the boys got home from school. "whats that rubbish Dad" was not the response I wanted. and I think I told them so. Later on I viewed it from where they had, agreed 100% and ripped the whole lot out, to start that job again. Lol

Belated Happy Birthday guys Hope that you had a good one

Used it a lot on Alfresco. Decks, Bulkheads, hatches etc. Made a lot of difference to the total weight and does not absorb moisture and gain weight as the older Offshores built using plywood did. Basically it is a sheet of 19mm honeycomb plastic that comes on a roll. This is laid out on a flat surface then an ounce and a half or GRP is put on the top, when cured its flipped and the same goes on the other face. what you end up with is a large sheet that is stiff and very light to handle, cut and fit. To be honest I bought 6 sheets like that with the boat mouldings. I did not start from the roll. The downside is what you do next. Adding more layers of GRP to both sides gives it the strength required overall, but not where you want to add fixings, for hinges and handles etc I found that cutting out the top layer of GRP then the plastic using a short blade in a jigsaw, then scraping off everything back to the other face of GRP. I then cut a piece 18mm marine ply and glued it into the hole, before glassing back over the top. this gave solid fixings for larger fittings. Smaller ones for mounting things like extinguishers were just done by drilling and gluing in hardwood dowels. The other tough thing is getting a nice finish when gel coating over the finished nidaplas. Easy on the deck, as it has a rough finish over 10oz of GRP, but far from it on the bulkheads. It took ages to get it all done, and lots of planning to put the strong blocks in the right place but I am still happy with the results considering we launched her in Nov 2007. Charlie

Soon be time for Jacob to buy a boat and HE can take GRANDAD out! 😉

Taken from one of the boat maintenance forums ive been reading ...... "The problem is that Nidaplast is a honeycomb material, so I cannot use screws to fasten it to the stringers, as this wold crush the honeycomb material". I believe I can stick it down and use screws to hold it while the glue dries, but i assume I would need ply stringers (or ply attached to the side of the nidaplast stringers) to screw into. Im hoping someone on here will have done one so I can learn from their mistakes :-)

Best wishes Kev , good to hear you’ve had a good day. Spoilt as always. 🎂🎉🥂🍷🍾

I've just ordered one on line which have not been available for a while so, obviously, supplies are going up again. Terry.