Sunday 15 January 2017
The last of the paint on the exterior port side hull has been removed, now just the chalking and some oyster remnants below the water line. Have found a number of areas with some over chalking – inside edges of some boards have been “chiseled” down in the enthusiasm to get too much cotton/string in.
More paint removal from the hull of ANZAC. In the foreground you will see the tender back on the trailer. Trailer is about to have the new trailer springs attached – just requires some welding for new brackets then final paint then almost complete.
3 January 2017
Have continued to strip the hull, removed a number of copper plates and lead patches – was dreading what might be under these. Continued to scrap and grind off the oysters etc. from below the waterline and the prop.
Xmas 2016 – Its been a while since the last post – busy with work. Over this Christmas break I have been stripping down the hull, removing the layers of paint and cleaning out the caulking. Had some help from my daughter – she still managed to stay in contact with her friends!
Over this father’s day weekend I spent finishing off some of those demolition task I had not previously been able to get to. Removed the front handrail – unsure if I want to put it back on – will decide later. Removed the old toilet and linings and then stripped out the cockpit. Removed the radar, wheel, fish finder and instruments, pulled out the “electrical fuse box” stripped of some of the linings which uncovered more of her original panels. It looks as though I have found where the original upper and lower decks changed – unfortunately it is directly over the where the motor is and will remain – I was planning to have a sliding hatch over the motor for easy removal -I will see what it looks like when I remove the wheel house – which should be by the end of this month.
Spent Sunday removing 2 ribs and cleaning the inside of the hull and ribs. Manage to full the green bucket from just 1 of the 5 sections of the boat! Scrapping out the mud and muck using a scrapper as a shovel, the starboard side cleaned up OK with some soapy water after – I expect the section under the motor will be the worst.
17 August 2016 (between the hours of 8:30pm to 10:30pm)
Wednesday’s crap day for TV anyway – so more scrapping, this time started on the port side 2nd section.
Got sick of that after the first hour so started to scrape down some of the superstructure (interior) – found one panel which has 8 layers of paint!
10 & 11 August 2016
I found I had some spare time between 8 and 10pm at nights, kids in bed and rather than spend time staring at a box in the corner of the room, I thought I could better spend my time with my scrapper and get to know every inch of the inside of “ANZAC”.
Spent 2hrs each of these nights scrapping the ribs and inside of the hull, managed to get the port and starboard side top 8 boards and same section of ribs cleaned. Finding more ribs damaged and requiring replacing. There are 5 of these sections on both the port and starboard sides, lots more scrapping will be required!
Above – Starboard Side 3rd section.
Above – Port Side 3rd Section
Above – Port Side 3rd Section
10 August 2016
While the interior is mostly stripped out, I have taken advantage of one of the few sunny days since “ANZAC” was hailed out to start to clean down the hull. There are still remains of oysters etc. from after the water blasting which need to be cleaned off. Like the interior I need to scrap back to see what we have.
Some boards appear to need replacing – we will see what they look like once they are all cleaned – I suspect I will need a full days work just to clean off all the oysters!
Kauri Launch "ANZAC" 