Classic Australian Wooden Power Boat Association

Well said fellow boaties.
He was a great friend to me and was always keeping a watch on the bulletin board and commenting with plenty of history and machanical advice.
He will be missed by all who had known him.

Great read . As a ten yr old l was only exposed to boat racing a few times, but we had a ski boat and that loud noise from the engines got me sucked in . The v8 skiffs left an impression in my head that never left me . I built timber models out of origon post offcuts of them in dads shed putting pla...

Ray it only seems to happen when I start realy pushing it
hard , so I think may be vibrations , but you can't feel any vibration , but the brute force on the rudder needed to keep it in a straight line must have something to do with it .

Today's effit was to remove the engine from the 6 cylinder skiff. The oil leak that has made a mess on the floor is to be tracked down and fixed . Its been a long time out of the water so a good wash out of the hull will need to be done, its not to bad but now is the time to get it done while the en...

I have again replaced some bolts on the cav plate .
This time double nutted and a tie wire through a hole on each bolt
Sick of loosing them !

Yes Bob, our labour was well catered for . The efforts that was needed to roll the boat was easy work and grateful just to catch up.

I had some sand paper that left a silicone residue on the boards and l think in the end l changed the paper more often so the Surface did not get to warm .

Looking good for a first coat.
Yellow is terrible for coverage

I like your thinking with the dry sump . Have had these thoughts of my own of late .
Great now l will be awake at night thinking about it.!!!!

I just want any one planing on taking a boat for a run to let the BB know . This might prompt some one else to meet you at the at your venue. It might be only short notice of day or so but may end up a good outing for the keen boaties .