Manage to get the boat in the Water at Herne bay .

                       Sorry it has been awhile since i have updated my blog.


Took the Boat out for the Seconded time and manage to get video of it in the water at herne Bay Kent Uk .

The sea was very choppy so didn't get to take the boat to any great speed but did manage to get up to 22 Knots but have to reduces the speed because the boat just kept leaping out the water .

Considering the water was very Choppy the Boat handle very well and as for the Mercury 1000SS Outboard well the Engine run brilliantly and with out fault .  

 As you can see the rather Choppy  out there .

    A little wave to the Camera as we are going by .

 Not even got the Engine at Half throttle and the boat leaping out the water .

 Coming bat in through the Harbor only aloud  8 Knots in there ..

 Me boy Wez just about to got onto the front Deck so he could tire us to the jetty .

One last ride out but this time with my youngest on board .

And here's the the Video of it , sorry for some of the footage but the Wife did it , hehe  ..

Hope you enjoyed the Video , i have still many this to do on the boat to finish it but as i do the i shall take more photo's and video coverage as i can..

Just an update , Took he Boat out again .

Hi all

I took the boat out again this time i decided to give is a test in the English channel, well the themes estuary last Saturday.

Unfortunately the Mrs forgot to take any footage and pictures, i only found this out after i came back in and put the boat back on to the trailer. Never mind ill get some next time hopefully with in the next couple of weeks.

Any way launch the boat and took it out , the estuary was rather ruff but the Herwa took it init's stride i am very pleased to how stable the boat was in those conditions and at the power of that Mercury 1000ss 100.HP outboard motor,
I didn't get to open it all the way but i did manage to get it half way witch on the speedo said around 25 MPH but at the speed the boat was just leaping out of the sea so i had to throttle back a bit just so it stayed in the sea and not jumping out of it.
So in the end i had to take the boat back in and put it back on to the trailer and just spend the day on the beach .

So as soon as i take the boat again i will make shore that there are photos take and footage film this time .

thanks for reading this .    Paul        

Just to wish every body a Merry Christmas and a happy holidays

I would just like too wish every body who had come on to my blog and those who just came in to read my blog a Very Happy and merry Christmas and happy holiday + a very happy New year ..


                                              Merry Christmas
                                And A
                       Happy New Year.

Thanks for read ,    Paul ...

Just a Little Update

Hi Just a little update

Sorry nothing to report realy since i took the boat out last excpt it been pritty bad over here for the weather so there hasn't been any thing done to the boat , Hoping to get the electrics sorted ASAP .

Because the GPS and the rest of the Nav-light, cabin and Deck light have to be put in also + i have got to get another fuel tank because when i took the boat out last time a almost ran out of fuel can't beleave how much fuel that Merc 1000 SS 100 HP drinks when you open it up .

Any Hooo i babbling on here , So as soon as any thing is done to the boat ill make shore there are photos and Vidio of what is being done

So bye for now. ....

Took the boat out for the second time

Hi every body

took the boat out again today i had to turn the engine a little as it wouldn't tic over properly, So before take the boat up the river i had a little tinker with the outboard and the took off for the day ..

took some photo and this time i took some footage with the Video so hope you like what i videoed i don't speak to much as i think i sound funny or it just me LOL .. so here's some video and some more photos ..

My Wesley Steering the boat,,

My Youngest posing for the camera again ..

a nice shoot of the Mercury 1000 SS 100 HP Tower of Power ..

Sorry but i can't seem to get the videos to upload , ill look into it and edit this post what i figger it out..

Figgered it out now  ..

And here some more photos ..

My youngest again . We stopped here to wait for the locks to be come empty so that we could go in and carry on back down the river ...

just another view of the boat .

and a shoot of the bow with it's name on it now  and just in case you can't read it it says ( MeSecond ) because i sold MeFirst ..

ok that's it for now when i get to finishing what i need to do inside the boat and the bits and peaces  ill post a new lot of photo's and some video if i can get it load on here  ..  So bye for now ..

Took the boat out for the first time

Hi all,

Took the boat out for the first time on Monday and for me i thought the boat floated lovely .

the out board needs a little turn up because it wont tick over on low Rev it cuts out, not good when you are trying to go though Lock and the gates , But other than that the Engine ran great and my God what power it has in it .

Once i got out of site and a nice straight bit of the river i opened the Engine up , before i knew it the nose was up and it was on it's plain and we were gone .

So here are some photo's of the Herwa in the water . I did get some video footage but i got my middle son to do it, But there isn't any thing in there whether keeping all he got was close up's of his face , his mate face and his little brothers face and other part that i wont mention , i might get my eldest son to come over to my place and get him to edit what bit are Editable if any and ill up load that instead .

So here the Photo's

The Herwa siting looking great.

The stern and the tower of Power the Mercury 1000 SS 100 HP.

My Younger .

My younger and Wesley's Friend Joe .

Wes , The Youngest and Joe .

So that it for now , If i can get any thing from the Video i will and then up loaded it

Buy for now ...
   

Almost Finished off Boat Trailer

Hi ever one

Been working on the Trailer today the only thing is i got so in to welding  that i for got to get any photos of what i was doing , But i will get some taken ASAP and up this post.

But any hooo back to the Subject what i have to do was finish the part of the trailer witch holds the bow in place, witch i had to fabricate From 60mm and 50mm Box Steel and a 1" steel tube, witch i had to heat up and bend into shape to fit the contours of the Bow .

I also made a couple of fixing brackets at the rear of the trailer out off some threaded screw bar heat and bent into a U shape and then welded into place.
Now i can secure the back of the boat when on the move.

All I've got to do now is the Mud guards the reason i couldn't do them is because the trailer is a twin axle and i purchased four individual mud guards to fix on, But because the two axles are a little to close the guards wont fit properly, so now i have got sell those and buy some double guards instead .
Well that's about it for now.

So as soon as i take the Pictures ill up date so you can see for your self's ....

Hi all, Here's the pictures of what has been done + what was done today as-well ..

This is the welding that was done before  i took photo of it as it was be fabricated , better late than never .. 

In these pic's all the fixtures and fitting are now being put on .

My son wes looking bizzy well trying  to look it Lol, cleaning the windows .

in this one the Speedo tube and white thingy has been put on now + fenders .
see the two stainless steel U bolts on either side of the boat , i was reading other peoples Blogs and looking at the Pic's and videos that they had put on when i noticed that there boat had the same thing on there's but they have straps on there's to hold the boat in place to the trailer, which i thought was a very good idea so i had it done to mine as well ...   

Wes still trying to look bizzy cleaning the windows  ...

And here is the front end of the trailer all done and painted in galvanized under coat ready for painting in black paint ..

All new instrument clocks and fuse board witches.

 

And new upholstered seats and fresh Varnish in the cabin ..

Well that's it for the moment . Oh i forgot im gonna be putting it in the water hopefully on Monday for the first time in a long time. i will be taking photo's of it in the water and i might ever get my eldest s son Video camera and video it as well  ..

Ok see ya for now ...