International MultiHull Salvage World
'Sarf & West mate, Sarf & West'
Pete Bernfeld
Tue 10 Jan 2012 07:03
The stainless steel shop hasn't ordered the 35mm tube for the rudder posts and don't know when they'll get around to it. They have 38mm tubes, and can for a not insignificant consideration, machine them down to 35mm. Seems a pointless exercise to me and the total cost, including machining a keyway, would be F$2000, say £700, seems a lot to me for two two-metre lengths of stainless steel. There is a shop which does have 35mm in stock, but only in six metre lengths and they will only knock off about F$100 for selling 4 metres. John the GRP was slightly embarassed when he told me about this.
I decided to ring Mark at MultiHull World. He gave me the email address and phone number of the factory in Poland, who are building two boats at the moment so hopefully they will have the rudder posts in stock. I also mentioned to Mark the cost of rope out here, F$11 or so a metre!
He happened to have a copy of a magazine to hand, which quoted £2 (just under F$6) per metre (inc VAT) for a suitable 'bit of string'. As it's being exported the price would be ex VAT and MultiHull World get a discount which they are going to pass on to me. The net result should be new halyards and sheets for just under half what it would cost here, and that includes shipping out here by Fedex. Good one MultiHullWorld!!
I've had the final bill from John the GRP. All repairs, painting, grinding and smoothing the hulls, polishing the topsides (they need TLC badly and will really deteriorate badly if nothing is done). Welding a new eye for the safety line (ripped out during the lift-out), straightening the foredeck seat, making the new fridge (more on that in a moment) and making a new gas bottle holder. All that lot including materials, but not anti-fouling, comes to F$20K, say £7000. Not bad at all and his work is very good.
Now I know that the fridge was going to be my project, but discussing it with John he came up with a slightly modified design which should give me more interior space. I'll have 4" of insulation on the floor and 2" on the walls and top. Not quite as much as I originally planned, but good enough I feel. The new plan meant cutting through a plastic moulding, fitting the insulation on the outside walls, then rebuilding the moulding. I would make a cock-up of it, it would work but it wouldn't look good, and as I will have to live with the result for many years, it seemed silly, considering John's quote which really wasn't much more than the material cost, not to have him do it.
The 'fridge' with the rear and right hand side plastic moulding cut away
My 'job for the day' was to clear my toilet system of dried mud, clean out three years worth of calcium build up, clean and reassemble. I've spared you the before pictures, just imagine a bowl-full of dried mud!
Ohh, shiny!!
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I've also brought two three-shelf plastic stacking systems for the fresh fruit and veg. Pictures tomorrow.
So, a bit of a delay on the engine spares and no news on the despatch of the autopilot spares, but all in all still on track I think. Sails to Amresh the Canvas once I get the new bits of rope.
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