Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress - 31 August 2019 A big week for the boat. We now have the first coat of varnish on the hull. Today Rob and Pascal put the first coat onto the boat. During the week, we finished sanding the outside of the boat. Greg and John were in attendance [...]
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress - 25 August 2019 Firstly apologies for not having a report last week. I have been having computer problems and still not resolved the issues. My laptop is back to the repair place on Monday. Hopefully I will be back to normal through the week and can start rebuilding [...]
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress - 11 August 2019 Thanks to Con for this week report. This week we glued the new keel on. Next job on the keel is to clean up and glass over. We also half glued three laminates on the forward rib. Next is to glue and screw another three [...]
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress - 4 August 2019 Detail work continued and all the inserts in the outside of the hull are now complete. Sanding is finished on the outside of the hull however we still have to fibreglass the keel when the fin case is bolted in. Inside the hull, we finished [...]
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress - 27 July 2019 I am certainly learning a whole new set of skills under the watchful eye of master shipwright Robert Tierne. This week I have almost finished patching the outside of the hull. One more big patch to go and it is finished. Have applied for the [...]
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress - 21 July 2019 A week of hull patching. Con and Robert and later Robert and I did the patching on the outside of the hull. It involves routing out the damaged section leaving part of the timber strip to be replaced. Robert then makes up a piece of [...]
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress - 15 July 2019 What bliss! The sound of three heat guns and two sanders. Tangalooma has fully exposed her bottom to all and sundry. Stripping and sanding is now complete on the outside of the boat after a super effort during the week. There is a little bit [...]
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress - 6 July 2019 Good progress made this week on a number of fronts. We had a visit from a representative of Altex paints who gave advice on finishes. They also provided a significant discount on the sealer and varnish we will use when we start recoating. Thanks to [...]
Tangalooma Restoration Project - 29 June 2019 Work continues with teams working on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Robert Tearne started detail sanding around the stringers and we are about halfway through sanding the inside of the boat. Much of the remaining work is partially stripped and just needs the detail work completed. Coral [...]
Tangalooma Restoration Project - 22 June 2019 We floating the boat around to Pattons a week ago. and hauled it up into the workshop to begin the restoration. Interesting to see the stern with a barge underneath and a crew of people hauling the bowsprit over the wharf and dragging it forward into [...]