Classic Australian Wooden Power Boat Association

I'm intending to go to the dinner but haven't booked yet.

Final coat for deck striping done. Hopefully the weather stays this way so I can get to the rest.

screwit wrote:Some one should tell the farmers to start varnishing their fences and there will be no more droughts !!!!!!!!

Hey Ross, I just read that Glenmaggie is spilling over and SRW are doing an extra release for allocations based on further rain. Should be a good year.

This flip flop weather is making it difficult but it's getting there.

A nice find today. Another name confirmed to add to the list of owners of Thunda-Babe as well as some racing results at Deepwater. Also thanks to Bob Walker for the syllabus which confirms another owner. Deepwater Oct 197211.jpg Deepwater Oct 1972 22.jpg 121016654_354237429222982_4625388491458424929...

Nice to have some documented history of your boat.

I just spoke with the van park about my booking and they are happy to accept a cancelation/roll over up to the day before. Subject to NSW opening the border I'm still planning to go (I'm in regional Vic). I'd be interested to know how many would still be planning to go anyway from other states pendi...

Would have looked pretty exotic in its day but pitty it was doomed to fail. Do you know what it was in? Going by the angles it wasn't driven off the front so may have not been a boat.

Reads a bit like snake oil, interested to see how it goes. It's interesting as it say's it contains Naptha and is oil based. I did ask a while back about using Copper Naphthenate as a treatment to prevent rot. A few didn't recommend it as they reckoned I would have problems with paint/varnish adher...

Has anybody had any experience with this stuff, particularly with varnishing decks.