Thread: The Latest Sixpence

Richard

Whoa ... steady on ... what's got into you. What's got you fired up ... you'll be launching before me at this rate.:mad:

these boats are like a woman (is that the reason while all boats are her?) you must start slowly and build a good relationship with her .. it all takes time doesn't it.

It's looking fantastic ... we can really start seeing the shape of her now. I wonder if I should put that on my list of floating toys to build after the sea kayak?

It's a good education into the building of a vessel such as this. Keep on firing. see you on the water.

I wouldn't be too scared. The next stage involves a lot of sandpaper ... and I can't do it with my faithful Mouse Cripes, it'll probably be months before I can even face it

Richard

So come on Richard, how about updating everyone on the progress of sixpence...... I hear you have diverted to bicycles for a while, something about getting fit????

You really have gotta get that poor old girl onto the water......

Aberdeen

Originally Posted by Daddles

I wouldn't be too scared. The next stage involves a lot of sandpaper ... and I can't do it with my faithful Mouse Cripes, it'll probably be months before I can even face it

Richard

Ahh yes, I have been diverted, but it's been good because that horrible sanding job no longer looks like it needs doing and I've changed how I'm going to do the next part of the job - this'll look much more betterer ... until I knock it about with the outboard.

But there are other projects getting in the way ... like the recumbent bicycle I'm going to make ... from plans ... where my first step is to acquire some steel tubing

Richard

Richard
I have built 2 recumbent bikes the first was hand propelled the second by foot both are three wheelers
No 2 has front double wishbone supension and rear trailing arm suspension 21 speed front drum brakes rear lever brakes, steering is controlled by one lever and the other lever controls the lean of the bike as it has the ability to lean into corners [see pictures]as this is a failing of 3 wheel recumbent bikes you cant go around corners to fast as you end up on the deck
So have fun on your new project

Richard

A mate of mine in Melbourne has been designing and building his own recumbant trike. PM or e-mail me if you would like me to mention your name and contact details to him and see if he wants to compare notes with you.

Cheers

Jeremy

Thanks for that lads. Jeremy, please put me in contact with your mate. Hey Steve, about time you took me out on the boat again And you know all about welding up recumbents eh? Good. Me know less about it than I do about these boat things.

Richard

BIKES!!!!
What the????

This is section is w o o d e n b o a t s not fallen over metal bikes

So show the latest on sixpence ..... ok ....please

Its all got to do with wooden boats when the bike Daddles is going to build does not work he is going to use it to power the Sixpence cause the sail set up he is going to use will need all the help it can get or maybe to run his Triton, so now can you see the madness in his method

Next point the forum says wooden boats not those kayak things or we have heard to much about that other long winded Eureka whats it name.

Plus it goes to prove some of us can think or dream about things other than boats!

Perhaps this is the answer...

http://www.hobiecat.com/kayaking/miragedrive.html

Someone showed me one the other day. It's actually a brilliant concept and ideal for Daddles to make a "reclinerbikekayak"

Or a "reclinerbikesixpence"

I know someone with with the Hobie Kayak he is the SA agent for Hobie and they are effortless to get around last time I saw him using it he was taking photos of a dinghy race while paddling along top little rocket but be yet to complex for our Daddles doing two things at once

More to the point, I discovered a site tonight by a bloke who makes WOODEN RECUMBENT bikes. Wow! He he, this is going to get sad isn't it. Don't worry, I haven't forgotten Sixpence (have to keep moving her out of the way of the bikes )

Richard

Wouldn't be this one would it Richard?

Wooden Recumbents

Righto, time to resurrect this old thread - despite all the nonsense on this page, Page 1 DOES contain talk about Sixpence.



Those unfamiliar with the project (ie, damn near all of you coz she's been ignored for some time ) might also want to read the thread about the great Coaming Challenge where I attempt to steam coamings for her, fail dismally, then laminate a lovely front coaming out of 2mm veneers.






However, that's all in the past and this is how the dear old girl is today. Oh how the mighty have fallen, from shed queen to bloody nuisance and timber storage.



Richard