Rebuilding 1919 Sailing Trawler

[copernicus]

Hi, I'm rebuilding a wooden Trawler and am looking to buy green Oak, I can work with lengths as short as 1.5 metres, as this is for framing I can also use curved section, I can collect up to 2 tons at a time in the North East / North Yorkshire area, you can see her at Speedwell :: Coming soon to a marina near you in 2010!

 

I'm on 07773777129 if you can help. Thanks for looking, Derek.

[Daniël Bos]

Nice one, I like old boats, here's ours.

Are you connected to the national historic ships register? They can be quite helpfull and help guide to funding etc. I could only find 2 speedwells on the register but neither from 1919.

No time to read all of your blog now but quick look looks good. Good luck!

[Peter]

Cant help you with the oak, but what a fantastic project!

 

Best of luck with it.

[NI Tree]

look like a lot to do

[Big J]

PM sent

[geoff]

Sold some down here to boat yards over the years,as big lumps,& some nice curved stuff from old oak pollards,had a few of then turned their roots in the '87 storm'.

A joy to see them utilised in restoration work,and look round down below at the work done & the timber notched & bolted in,giving it a new structural purpose.

Lovely stuff.

[agg221]

Coincidentally, old boats are what started me on milling, as I couldn't afford to rebuild mine without doing my own timber. Mine is also on the register:

 

Search the registers National Register of Historic Vessels National Historic Ships

 

I would second Rover's comment about joining - I think mine was the first grant they ever gave out - for a week's course on forging wrought iron fittings, on Shetland in February.

 

What section are your frames? I've done all mine and have enough spares stacked away, so if you drop me a PM I may have some suitable bits going spare, and I travel up to Middlesbrough to visit some of my remote staff about once a month (just back today in fact) so could get them fairly close.

 

Alec

 

p.s. I like yours Rover!

[copernicus]

Nice one, I like old boats, here's ours.

Are you connected to the national historic ships register? They can be quite helpfull and help guide to funding etc. I could only find 2 speedwells on the register but neither from 1919.

No time to read all of your blog now but quick look looks good. Good luck!

Hi Rover, I had a look at Ripple, she's going to be a nice boat when you've got her back, ISBC have been very helpful to me with advice, ideas and suggestions, If they restore her she'll be a force to reckon with in the smack races! Never considered Speedwell for the Historic Ships Register, something I should look at, Thanks for that.

[copernicus]

look like a lot to do

Yeah, in my early foolishness I had it in my head as a two year project, that was 5 years ago, trouble is family and work keep getting in the way :-), roll on retirement so I can be busier still!

[copernicus]

Cant help you with the oak, but what a fantastic project!

 

Best of luck with it.

Thanks for that, much appreciated.

Derek