Boats / Ships & Fishing

Doesnt anyone build in ferro anymore. Remember Helsal the floating footpath.
My wife and I built a Hartley South Seas changed to a centre cockpit back in 1970. It was 38 ft and ferro. Ketch rigged.
I would have liked to have built steel but no sand blasting facilities in Kavieng on the island of New Ireland PNG. Got most of our stuff from the UK on Bank Line boats.
Sailed to Bougainville in 72, and pulled the pin in 1980, sailing to Aus via the Solomons.
Ended up in Mooloolaba.
Sold it about 8 yrs ago after moving to the Bush.
Back then no satnav. Had to teach myself celestial.
We had a great time. No regrets and no problems with the Ferro yacht.

Attached picture of my 'Azimat'.

John

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Originally Posted by 123rover50

Doesnt anyone build in ferro anymore. Remember Helsal the floating footpath.
My wife and I built a Hartley South Seas changed to a centre cockpit back in 1970. It was 38 ft and ferro. Ketch rigged.
I would have liked to have built steel but no sand blasting facilities in Kavieng on the island of New Ireland PNG. Got most of our stuff from the UK on Bank Line boats.
Sailed to Bougainville in 72, and pulled the pin in 1980, sailing to Aus via the Solomons.
Ended up in Mooloolaba.
Sold it about 8 yrs ago after moving to the Bush.
Back then no satnav. Had to teach myself celestial.
We had a great time. No regrets and no problems with the Ferro yacht.

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I seriously considered ferro, but ended up with steel. I think the problem with ferro is the amount of labour involved.

Another interesting point. I first sailed up the east coast in 1987. Most of the other long distance cruisers I saw were in "one-off" boats, usually built by themselves or bought very second hand. Ten years later I repeated the trip. Very noticeable was that there were virtually no home built boats to be seen. Most of the ones we saw were production fibreglass boats, generally pretty upmarket compared to those from ten years earlier.

John

I've wanted a cruising yacht as long as I can remember, for the last 30 years it's been a cruising Cat i've been wanting. For the last 15 years it's been a Fastback 32 which would meet my requirements. My wife will join me in retirement next year so if it's going to happen it will be then.
Joined my mate late last year in Perth and helped him sail his 40ft Cat over to Tasmania. Then a short while ago joined the boat in Bris and spent a month cruising up to Darwin. It is a great way to live

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Originally Posted by 51jay

I've wanted a cruising yacht as long as I can remember, for the last 30 years it's been a cruising Cat i've been wanting. For the last 15 years it's been a Fastback 32 which would meet my requirements. My wife will join me in retirement next year so if it's going to happen it will be then.
Joined my mate late last year in Perth and helped him sail his 40ft Cat over to Tasmania. Then a short while ago joined the boat in Bris and spent a month cruising up to Darwin. It is a great way to live

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brisbane to darwin - that sounds nice

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Originally Posted by smac

Gday,
recently went out fishing on a boat my mate recently bought (just a small 15foot half cabin), really enjoyed myself and it seems to have awoken some sort of ol' irish boating blood within me.

just wondering if there are other Boaties here?

if so anyone actually built their own boat? i thought that would be a pretty cool thing.

Are there many jobs around in the Boating industry? from building or repairs though to Captain sort of work? i live in SA and there are a lot of boat shops and other ship related businesses around port adelaide way.

i reckon its great that my mate bought a boat, as he has spent the money, and I dont have too, but I would like to learn a lot about them.

i work in a technical role at the mo, but getting a bit sick of it, and long service is coming up in a few years, so thought, hmmm, maybe a change is in order? maybe even 'sea change' ha ha ha.

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Andrew

ah yeah, cool thanks man

Family has a very old 36 foot boat (Launched around 1897) been in the family since 1953.

Comes out of the water once a year for caulking and paint then back in, has to be done in less than a week or the planks dry out and the gaps between them open up and it sinks when it goes back in.




This is a photo from the mid 1950s
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...10/09/1793.jpg

My dad and his mates around 1970
http://distortion.iinet.net.au/grace at marjorie-s.JPG


Me and my mates Jan 2010
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...10/09/1794.jpg

Worked on them for the last 27yrs, from fishing boats to landing barges and even did a trip as navigator on a 60mtr fast ferry from Darwin to singapore,and believe me the best boat is 1 thats owned by a friend or 1 you hire and give back..

Am presently steaming back to port with an expensive breakdown due to a new part failure,so maybe my view is abit tainted..

I am however all in favour of following you dreams/ideals, so its a big country surrounded by water, there's plenty of types of work in the marine industry, hope you find a good 1...If not just go back out with your mate at every opertunity..

Cheers Ean

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Originally Posted by Distortion

Family has a very old 36 foot boat (Launched around 1897) been in the family since 1953.

Comes out of the water once a year for caulking and paint then back in, has to be done in less than a week or the planks dry out and the gaps between them open up and it sinks when it goes back in.

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Rob. That is so cool! I love that style. My parents (before my time) used to have a counter stern launch with (I think) a Rugby petrol engine in it.

My first fishing boat, when I was 15, was an old ex-tug built some time around 1890. Built tough :)

At the same time we had a 46' ex-trawler with a large counter. I looked somewhat like a North-Sea trawler style and had been used for seine netting.

Yeah. I have a soft spot for working craft and old Landies.