Son of Extreme Makeover ... called Mod.

[Wild Wassa]

A while ago Texas Boater started an excellent thread called 'Extreme Makeover' that had well over 1,100 hits ... so I'd like to keep the makeover thread going.

An I14ft skiff called 'No Idea' needed some serious work to her smashed 2mm Aeroply deck. I did a survey on the boat for young Jamie Cottee (the famous name) and he knew what changes that he wanted to make ... it must run in the Cottee family. The damaged boat below. Damaged at the bow and also at the port well.


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The mod is self-explanatory although the concave foredeck is under stated in the photo.


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It was decided that a mod was a better look for the boat than just a new deck and her convex deck was changed to a concave deck with a spinnaker hoop (in foam core, glass, epoxy and carbon for extra strength) to take the chute rather than stuffing her huge asymetrical spinnaker down the wells, as before.

The 2mm aeroply deck and the 3mm ply cockpit bulkhead were both changed to 10mm Nidaplast (high performance honeycomb), then sheathed in glass and some carbon added at the base of the spinnaker hoop. Her new paint job is Debeers Berocryl 2000 on her deck and hull. The anti skid is Norglass which needs a second coat still. I only did a quick retouch of her anti-skid today and we will do the second coat of anti-skid tomorrow after Jamie races the boat.


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Tomorrow she will be fitted with a new carbon mast and boom to go with her new dacron jib and her new kevlar composite main and all around new strings. The new asymetrical spinnaker is much larger than the old one (that I ripped when crewing for Jamie). This boat will kick arse if the young bloke can keep her upright.

I almost finished painting the boat today (that is me laying tape in the photo by Jamie), except that she needs another coat of anti skid. Tomorrow the boat will race in the Wollarah Cup. We put her old Goldspar mast up today, just to check that all the bits were going okay. So that her new mast can be installed tomorror with the minimum of hickups.


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Warren.

[Wild Wassa]

Cheers, Searover. No drips Skipper, Berocryl 2K skins within seconds.

I'm Jamie's Mate (it all comes out in the wash around here) there will be more contra deals done ... like making boat covers. Jamie has an industrial sewing maching.

The mod is losely based on another I14 called 'Lose Unit'.


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Jamie's father designed the mod. Stuart Schmel the boatwright did the maths. Jamie did a lot of the work himself ... like fairing and swaping the build for odd jobs.

He is a good keen young bloke, he always asks me to crew in the big events that he enters, if I'm available, I have in the past crewed with him and it is only fair that the crew pulls their weight, even if I only get to have just a few rides during the year. We train together every now and again. When he is short of crew because of girl distractions I go out with him. He likes crewing with me on his 14 ... because he goes over often when he is with young guys his age.

I'm happy to help him with his boats ... he has 7 boats. Often when I'm working on client's boats, after school Jamie comes and works on his boats beside me. He borrows my tools and asks lots of 'what ifs' and he runs many of his good ideas past me. I'm very happy to help the young guys at the yacht club who pull their weight.


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'Budgee Smuggler'. The transom is wood. The deck might be wood.

Warren.

[rbgarr]

The concave foredeck saves weight and provides a stiffer inboard base for the sprit?

[Wild Wassa]

... and to keep the curve theme, running through her new design. The chute will sit better in the concave than on a flat deck.

Two new marine ply bulkheads were fashioned to support the Nidaplast deck (as well as the Nidaplast bulkhead being shaped), after the two internal wooden beams and the cockpit bulkhead had been removed. Inside the gunnels new wooden stringers were fashioned to be supports for the Nidaplast sheet at the gunnels. Then the gunnels were sheathed and faired. The Nidaplast was glued to the new bulkheads with epoxy with a compression strength filler added, to take the 'brittle-by-nature' factor out of the epoxy.


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The new carbon mast arrived yesterday without the second set of Proctor spreaders being included with the multi-spreader rig, arrrhhh!, (what a time waster, half shipping of products ordered here, is so typically Australian). The old mast had some rapid repairs done to it to close the sail track. The thinner diametered bolt in the new main designed to fit the carbon mast was too thin for the old mast track and pulled out while being hoisted, so to put her on the water the old sail track was pinched closer together. She didn't race in the Wollarah Cup as originally planned. Jamie and his dad just took her out for a shake down run, the wind was a bit rugged for sailing full on. "The old mast was far too bendy, for the more powerful sails," Jamie said. The new carbon mast has multiple stays, uppers and lowers and is far more rigid ... while still being a slingshot of a rig.

Warren.

[Wild Wassa]

Put your recent makeovers here comrades ... don't be at all shy.

A Haines Hunter Tramp/Eagle. I've been repairing this boat over a few months. She was way past the plot when I first went to see her owner. She is now a wooden boat ... because her tiller is wood. Her new gelcoat is now wood also because I used organic pigments to tint the gelcoat.

She had been run up on the sand for over two decades. So I cut her surface and rebuilt her gelcoat. The previous owner encapsulated algae and rust and what ever else under a coat of orange peel polyurethane. The encapsulated stains on her were here most appealling feature.


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The start of the removal of the polyurethane and old epoxy patches that had not been protected from UV. The stripes just had to go.


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After several days of longboarding, touching up the damaged gelcoat, refairing then cutting and polishing the hulls using various grades of cutting compounds ... she kind of looks different.


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All I have to do now is to prepare and paint the beams and polish the decks, then polish the mast and spars and install four inspection hatches. The beams will have one coat of etch primer, then 2 coats of Interprotect and then 2 coats of a reaction lacquer on them. Then she is finished.

The water on the hull and floats beads.


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She might be slippery now ... but she is still butt ugly.

Warren.