Sailing Sunday – Neil Chalmers

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Sailing Sunday – Neil Chalmers

Now if there was an award at next months CYA Prize Giving ( May 20th @ RNZYS – 7.00pm) for ‘Nicest Bloke’, Neil would win it, in fact every year. You would have to walk a long way to find anyone that did not have a nice thing to say about Neil. He will be embarrassed that I said the above but its true. Always there when you need some advice or encouragement & most of what he does goes un-noticed.
Now Neil attended the 2015 Australian Wooden Boat Festival in Hobert & packed his box brown – below is a selection of ‘stuff’ that caught his eye. I think he included the zoom zoom boat to keep the launches happy 🙂

Check out the price on the dinghy……………….

 

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6 thoughts on “Sailing Sunday – Neil Chalmers”

  1. Greetings to Neil Chalmers and Mike Quilter from Chris Smith. Sadly old salt, Howard “Bill” Smith owner of Chance, died on January 6th aged 103.

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  2. Great to see some ex Kiwi boats in good shape –Tui of Opua a great example, and Jack Hargraves’ Tuarangi -that boat could tell some stories.

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  4. Some thoughts on the clinker dinghy above

    LAUNCHING DREAMS – BADEN PASCOE
    Building A Clinker The Voss Way. Pg24

    In the Vos yard clinker building was almost a religion- to the point where Percy would not sign off an apprentice’s papers until this skill was acquired. To add to this it had to be done in a timely fashion. Percy did not have a lot of time for “professional hobbyists”, he liked to see high- quality productive men working in his yard or leaving with these skills. …

    Percy also personally liked to keep an eye on a young lad or man who was doing this task so the stocks were right at the bottom of his office stairs. …. I have heard stories that Percy often spent hours with a young man who was struggling with the job, and this resulted in a ruined suit or being very late to an appointment. The process from start to finish had a set of steps that were adhered to so that the job would flow along and the desired hull shape would emerge…

    There’s a wonderful photo with five clinkers under construction on the Vos work shop floor.

    I just wonder if the clinker seen above, which is looking superb, is a one off in which case it would very quickly telly to that figure. As Baden goes on to say Percy had created a formula almost- “each plank was cut in such a way it was cut or ( spiled) itself when fitted and fastened”
    But still, formula or no formula, I think a lot of skill is required to bring the clinker together quickly and nicely.
    George and I have mended a few of them, we are very contentious however we can still run up the $$$
    So if you find one that your dead keen on, you may just have to pay the price!!

    An awesome book. Do look it up. Better still BUY A COPY!!

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