Small Boat Voyages

It’s been a busy couple of weeks and not had much time to work on the trailer. But I’ve had a few thoughts on what direction the next phase will go. Firstly I’ve been looking at the existing supports and where they contact the keel and it seems the overhang is no more than any Read more

Been grinding the ends of the frames today to get the parts to fit closely, followed by grinding each side of the proposed butt joints to form a vee for the weld followed by initial welds. I’m using 0.8 gauge flux cored stainless steel MIG wire as this will resist corrosion. I’m thinking of coating Read more

After deliberating on what cuts to make, where, and what to end up with, work begins. I decided to keep the end brackets more or less intact and reposition at the revised trailer end. Read more

Starting the job of trailer mods. Looking at the back of the trailer you can still see the mud it picked up from Dove Point a few weeks ago. This happened when the trailer went down the steepest part of the slip but hit the flat bottom of the channel before Tarka was full able Read more

Visited Coniston Sailing Club this weekend for the last sail of the season. Chance to try out a different slipway. Had a good sail there but because I didn’t want to hold up any of the other crews launching that day I went back of the queue. This meant added delays getting started so my Read more

We have an old wooden ladder that we use to climb aboard when Tarka is on its trailer. It’s pretty old but a couple of things going for it are the solid ash rungs which each have a wire strenthener to prevent breaks, that and the two leather protective patches that I added to help Read more