Getting underway from Steeple to Brightlingsea

Getting April Star off her mooring at Steeple and coming into pick up the rest of the crew for the short trip to Brightlingsea.


Almost along side the jetty to get the crew then get underway downstream and the adventures ahead and siling in company with Thames barges.



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Engine filters from 70 years ago, all the parts can be washed and refitted non disposable parts, so no land fill

Image
The good part about the old fuel filter system on Chance is that it is a non disposable system, so it just needs cleaning at regular intervals to keep it working  Although there are a number of parts to the filter system it is straightforward and easy to dismantle and rebuild when it needs cleaning to maintain the engines   Just need a couple of parts replacing as they are worn out, apart from that the system is ready to be reused again for another 70 years or more   
Read more

The work this week on the Dickinson Diesel Stove

Image
The restoration of the cooker is well underway, I am now in the process of ordering some new parts for the cooker. After the years of neglect it is not surprising that there are a few parts that have since better days and need replacing. The major items that need replacing are the super heater element in the burner, The super heater element which as seen better days   The draft fan and its controller and a piece of firebrick that needs renewing which is broken. Apart from these items the cooker has stood up well over the years.  The other parts such as the burner bowl, which needed its vent holes cleaning and the soot removing from the bowl itself,  The before photo with the bottom of the bowl with dirt and water and other rubbish that has collected in there over the years  The burner bowl well on the way to being cleaned just a bit more elbow grease and wire wool The fuel valve which needed cleaning out of dirt and water and the unit needed stripping down to cl...
Read more

How thing change especially the weather. Time to work on parts in the workshop.

 It is at this time of the year, we think about moving into the workshop to do jobs that were put to one side while working on Chance. Although not a lot was done on Chance one way or another there were some jobs done on her this year. We did get the rudder out of the boat although in three parts otherwise, it would have meant digging a six foot hole under the back of Chance to get the rudder out of Chance in one piece. We are now in the early stages of making a new design to make it possible to make it possible to remove the rudder blade as a separate part from the rest or the steering gear So making it possible the rudder without messing about with the major part of the steering in the future. This will also help with replacing the hog / keel at the back of the boat where a lot of damage and rot as happened in one way or another. One job we are going to be doing shortly in the workshop is to make some new deck beams for the aft deck of Chance once we can get the old deck beams o...
Read more