Baware Boat plan: restoration

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Wednesday, May 17, 2017

1953 Aile class yacht under restoration in Mauritius

Not all of the time do we know what end use materials we supply are to be used for.

I asked a customer on Mauritius island what the 9mm thick okoume marine plys were for?

This boat is now sixty (60) years old, it looks to be very fast?

Here you go !

A 1953 ‘’Aile’’Class boat being restored !!

Cheers

Pipo

Designer: Iarl Linblöm (Finland)

LOA: 7 m 10

LWL: 5 m 90

Beam: 1 m 58

Draft: 1 m 04

Hull weight: 450 kg exc. rig

Ballast keel: 200 kg

Sail area (upwind) : 18.7m2

Spinnaker: 27m2

The Aile is a one-design keelboat, built originally by the Finnish Abö yard. It was adopted by the Parisian yacht club, Cercle Nautique de Chatou (now the Yacht Club Ile de France – YCIF) in 1936, when the club's previous one-design keelboat racer proved to be unsuitable for the new waters to which the club had moved.

The club committee had originally intended to adopt the Star class, and to import as many as 100, but on discovering that a rival Parisian yacht club, the Cercle de la Voile de Paris, already had the French monopoly on this design, as well as the sole rights to organise regattas for it, they moved swiftly to look for an alternative.

Friday, May 12, 2017

British Seagull 102 series restoration

This will be my last 'customer ' restoration of a British Seagull?

Click on the images to enlarge them.

I say 'the last' as the cost to parts and labour just is not cheap, time taken is countless hours, which if I charged on a normal mechanics or a plumbers hourly rate would escalate my charges beyond affordability?

I have one more 102 series similar to the one in the picture, that will be done as an in house stock motor and for sale.

The engine above came in last February 2015, that is over six months ago, the time to source spare parts comes to much of that time and of course the final cost to the restoration.

The same engine, bench tested and ready to be collected?

Roy