Duck Tales – A big step forward
Its been a long while since I posted on here about Thunder Duck. I guess I have been spending my time “doing” rather than wasting the day light in writing about it. However there is a lot to tell. The first launch, at Bucklers, and a near disaster With the boat all mechanically repaired and […]
Duck Tales – Back to plan
The set back with the floor has now been rectified. I bought about 30 M2 of Chopped, Stranded Mat (CSM) Fibreglass, and using plenty of resin I have relayed the floor. This time it is “Spotty Dog”! With the final layer of glass in and the seat bolt positions opened up, the job looked much […]
Duck tales – Slight set back.
It’s been a few days since I’ve worked on the Arrowflyte floor, simply due to the weather. Today I was able to get out there and continue. To recap I have half of the third layer of the fibreglass cloth down and I need to finish. This was the plan and what I will now […]
Duck tales – The floor
In my previous post I revealed that the floor in Thunder Duck had given way. Let’s look at what happened. So I started with the Duck as we know her. I needed to get the seats out as they were not great, and they were in the way. Here we have an aerial picture of […]
Duck Tails continue
So much work was done to the Duck in 2020. The new trailer was acquired, renovated and the boat transferred. Then the water pump was renovated. Then the thermostat was removed, breaking the gasket, so I made a new one out of gasket material. Duck was ready! I wanted to do a “tie-down” test in […]
Duck tales – Holly inspection
Duck tales – Engine
An on going problem has been with the engines cooling pump. I had bought a refurbishment kit, dropped the gear case off to access the pump, refitted it, re-fitted the gear case and tested it. No water flow, not a drop. So I had to strip out the gear case again and examine the refurbished […]
Duck tales – Sea trial 1
Thunder Duck is ready for the first sea trial, almost. I have sheared bolts in an engine mount at address but other than that she is ready. The question is where to go? An enquiry on the Facebook page “Solent Boating” revealed a very attractive option on Calshot Spit, which is at the mouth of […]
Duck Tales
So I want to talk about our project, Holly and I. A very long story short is that over the last three years we have progressively gained qualification in Power Boating. We are both at the RYA Intermediate level, having already achieved Level 1 and Level 2. The next step is the Advanced level BUT […]