I found these old pictures of our boat
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And since no-one's done a rebuild & "major mods" type thread I thought I'd be first. 
Being a bit tight with money and in need of a boat, when we found Figaro at the right price we simply had to buy. A little TLC would be required. A bit more than we baragined for as it happened...
Here's some pics of Figaro when we picked her up from Southampton. She was built in 1913 so has been around a bit. We only know of 3 other Hamble Ones that have survived.
Examination by my father in law
A very sorry looking deck.
Looks OK, but there are broken ribs.
No rudder!
Close up of some broken ribs
Getting it across the water to the IOW was quite an achievement... All the holes in the hull were filled with expanding foam and a friend (known as my "evil twin brother" after the Seagul outboard incident...) offered to bail her out while she was towed across the solent with Ted's yacht. Unfortunately, there's no pics of this.
The first stage was to burn off the old paint and then to remove the old deck. There were serious rot problems with the structure underneath.
Drilling round the old nails with a hole saw thingy. (I'm sure it has a proper name!)
All the nails drilled round
Lifting the deck off
Ted, Nic & myself then spent many hours clenching in the new ribs. It's something everyone should try once... (probably as a punishment ;-) ) They're all held in with copper nails and rooves - the good old fashioned way.
Not sure how many were replaced, but it took nearly a week of long afternoons and evenings.
Ted steaming new ribs in a home made steam box
New ribs in place and fastened in.
These were just partially replaced.
I have to say that my father in law is very talented!
The structure under the deck had suffered very badly from rot. In some places it was spooned out of the hull.
Ted spent a few days making some new pieces...
Trial fitting a scarf joint.
Finished joint
The finished beams.
Here's the cockpit comings after their first coat of varnish. These really have to be seen to be appreciated. The photo doesn't do them justice.
Why buy deck fittings when you can have them made by hand?
They don't look bad. As Ted said: "They look bought not made"
Me painting some awkward (and uncomfortable) bits of boat.
The finished rudder on the boat. Note the clever home made carbon fibre and stainless steel bush at the top.
Us sorting out last minute things, while stood in the queue for the crane on the quayside
The crane we used for lifting in.
Figaro suspended in the lifting strops.
Back home on the pontoon awaiting rigging.
The next thing to do is look at the rigging and mast. I couldn't find the pictures of these, or the ones under sail.
Being a bit tight with money and in need of a boat, when we found Figaro at the right price we simply had to buy. A little TLC would be required. A bit more than we baragined for as it happened...
Here's some pics of Figaro when we picked her up from Southampton. She was built in 1913 so has been around a bit. We only know of 3 other Hamble Ones that have survived.
Examination by my father in law
A very sorry looking deck.
Looks OK, but there are broken ribs.
No rudder!
Close up of some broken ribs
Getting it across the water to the IOW was quite an achievement... All the holes in the hull were filled with expanding foam and a friend (known as my "evil twin brother" after the Seagul outboard incident...) offered to bail her out while she was towed across the solent with Ted's yacht. Unfortunately, there's no pics of this.
The first stage was to burn off the old paint and then to remove the old deck. There were serious rot problems with the structure underneath.
Drilling round the old nails with a hole saw thingy. (I'm sure it has a proper name!)
All the nails drilled round
Lifting the deck off
Ted, Nic & myself then spent many hours clenching in the new ribs. It's something everyone should try once... (probably as a punishment ;-) ) They're all held in with copper nails and rooves - the good old fashioned way.
Not sure how many were replaced, but it took nearly a week of long afternoons and evenings.
Ted steaming new ribs in a home made steam box
New ribs in place and fastened in.
These were just partially replaced.
I have to say that my father in law is very talented!
The structure under the deck had suffered very badly from rot. In some places it was spooned out of the hull.
Ted spent a few days making some new pieces...
Trial fitting a scarf joint.
Finished joint
The finished beams.
Here's the cockpit comings after their first coat of varnish. These really have to be seen to be appreciated. The photo doesn't do them justice.
Why buy deck fittings when you can have them made by hand?
They don't look bad. As Ted said: "They look bought not made"
Me painting some awkward (and uncomfortable) bits of boat.
The finished rudder on the boat. Note the clever home made carbon fibre and stainless steel bush at the top.
Us sorting out last minute things, while stood in the queue for the crane on the quayside
The crane we used for lifting in.
Figaro suspended in the lifting strops.
Back home on the pontoon awaiting rigging.
The next thing to do is look at the rigging and mast. I couldn't find the pictures of these, or the ones under sail.
Westmacott?
Lovely craft you have there, you should be very proud.
One day I'll do a similar post about the rebuild of mine.
Here she is anyway
http://www.faireyownersclub.co.uk/images/boats/hun...
http://www.faireyownersclub.co.uk/images/boats/hun...
Lovely craft you have there, you should be very proud.
One day I'll do a similar post about the rebuild of mine.
Here she is anyway
http://www.faireyownersclub.co.uk/images/boats/hun...
http://www.faireyownersclub.co.uk/images/boats/hun...
Huntsman said:
Westmacott?
No, Lukes of Hamble.Most of the work was done by my father-in-law - I just provided a pair of hands to do painting, varnishing and holding of heavy things...
The cleats are pretty good - solid teak with some thought about grain direction. They're holding up fine so far, although we've not done anything like as much sailing as we wanted this year.
The wooden cleats on Ted's 13 ton Hillyard have survived many years of heavy service.
Norbert500 said:
No, Lukes of Hamble.
Nice.We're over in Cowes on the boat often, I'll look out ofr her.
Maybe when she's ready if you need a crew give me a shout.
Do you ever see a Harrison Butler on the Medina called Sabrina? I used to lie next door to the chap, Craig. If you do bump into him, tell him Ben says hi.
Huntsman said:
Westmacott?
Lovely craft you have there, you should be very proud.
One day I'll do a similar post about the rebuild of mine.
Here she is anyway
http://www.faireyownersclub.co.uk/images/boats/hun...
http://www.faireyownersclub.co.uk/images/boats/hun...
Is that playtimeII?Lovely craft you have there, you should be very proud.
One day I'll do a similar post about the rebuild of mine.
Here she is anyway
http://www.faireyownersclub.co.uk/images/boats/hun...
http://www.faireyownersclub.co.uk/images/boats/hun...
If so get yourself over to boatmad.com and introduce it. Loads of multimedia of old ctc races
MOTORVATOR said:
Huntsman said:
Westmacott?
Lovely craft you have there, you should be very proud.
One day I'll do a similar post about the rebuild of mine.
Here she is anyway
http://www.faireyownersclub.co.uk/images/boats/hun...
http://www.faireyownersclub.co.uk/images/boats/hun...
Is that playtimeII?Lovely craft you have there, you should be very proud.
One day I'll do a similar post about the rebuild of mine.
Here she is anyway
http://www.faireyownersclub.co.uk/images/boats/hun...
http://www.faireyownersclub.co.uk/images/boats/hun...
If so get yourself over to boatmad.com and introduce it. Loads of multimedia of old ctc races
Boatmad.com? I'll go have a mooch.
Huntsman said:
Yes, its Playtime II, I've had her 5 years. Quite a big rebuild to get her back afloat, had to give up work for a year...
Boatmad.com? I'll go have a mooch.
May have taken a while but that is one boat really worthy of rebuild. Always fancied a huntsman myself but never had the time. Boatmad.com? I'll go have a mooch.
The other people that would be interested is copoc (classic offshore powerboat club) which you can get to via the national powerboat museum in basildon of all places. Most of the guys post on Boatmad though so have go introduce yourself.
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