Isle of Wight

Nghost · 02 July 2003, 13:24

Hi Chaps,
Just found Ribnet.
Last Saturday a friend and I went round the IOW in his Quicksilver SIB. This is his boat with home made cuddy (the other thing is me). Starting and ending at Pool the jorney was 100 miles (85 nm). It took 10.5 hours and used 40l of fuel with my 8 Hp yamaha 2 stroke.
All the equipment fits in the boot of an estate car.

Nghost · 02 July 2003, 13:24

This is the track from the GPS.

narked · 02 July 2003, 13:29

Bloody hell, looks like you've got some competition 'ere Keith!

Nice boat, and sounds like a fun journey!

Welcome to RIBnet, it's a great little website. Go on Keith, tell him about Orkney...

Matt

Brian · 02 July 2003, 15:18

NGhost
You are clearly just the chap we need.
Go look at this site immediately.................and then sign up for it!

http://www.blackhart.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/orkney.html

Keith Hart · 02 July 2003, 15:46

Nghost you are my hero.

Having checked out the site Brian recomended shall I book you for a place on the expedition?

I am VERY interested in the cuddy you have made. Do you have any photos or details please?

Keith (this has got to be a wind up) Hart

Nghost · 02 July 2003, 16:09

Bugg** I'm in the USA then!
Sorry cant come.
The cuddy was made by my friends wife Barbara.
It took hours to make and is base on those fibre glass tent poles.
The fixings on the boat are a row of d rings with a rope passed through them. The cuddy hooks to this rope. Ray the owner of the boat is getting her to make a full cabin next so that he can sleep on board. I will do something similar to my own boats.

Keith Hart · 02 July 2003, 16:43

Hi Nghost, shame about that...cancel the USA trip and come to Orkney instead.

Anyway, how does the cuddy perform? It looks as if it would keep you dry.

Keith Hart

Brian · 02 July 2003, 17:14

Nghost
Now look, never mind about America. It will still be there when you get back.
On the other hand the first Great Orkney Expedition will only happen the once.
How will you feel if you come back from yet another boring trip to the USA, and find that TGOE has passed heroically into the annals of British Maritime History-and you were not there?
Shades of Henry V mate !!

Keith Hart · 02 July 2003, 17:33

Brian

I'd no idea we were passing through anybody's anus!

Keith (trying to divert attention from a certain other thread) Hart

Nghost · 03 July 2003, 09:32

I have spoken to my friend Ray, and he will take some piccies of the cuddy construction and post them here.

Keith how easy is it to carry your 15 hp Mariner?
we somtimes have to carry the engine over sand and mud to launch the boat.
The 8 we use is on the edge (for weight and power) and a bit more power would be usefull.
Nigel

Keith Hart · 03 July 2003, 10:13

Nghost

Place the engine face down, with the prop down and lift with the carrying handle. You (I) can manage it with one person and two can carry it easily.

15hp is the max for the 3.4 Quicksilver.

Keith (forget the USA come to Orkney) Hart

Brian · 03 July 2003, 10:19

Actually, Nghost, I am surprised that Keith can remember as far back as him having to carry anything!.
Keith stopped being a SERIOUS sibster, like you, some time ago when he purchased a trailer.
Now all he does all day is lust over photos of slipways on

www.boatlaunch.co.uk

Erm, Nghost, is it possible to call you by a more humanoid name? Your moniker always reminds me of a dish on my local curry house takeaway menu for some reason?

Keith Hart · 03 July 2003, 10:25

Brian

I'm serious about Sibbing, but I was never a SERIOUS sibber

Keith (I need the trailer for all these ruddy brackets) Hart

Nghost · 03 July 2003, 14:53

I may look out for a 15 that I can carry

Call me Nigel (its my name) Nigel's Ghost (nghost) is the psudonim that I use for the web. Never thought of rogan

Ah yes I remember slipways there is always someone telling you "you cant park there" as you slip your disks faster than you slip the boat.

Light boats that can be lauched over the sand or dropped in from a low bank/key thats the way.
I do fansy a small rib though

Nigel

Keith Hart · 03 July 2003, 15:01

Quote:

I do fansy a small rib though

Don't 'wobble' Nigel.

Keith Hart

gingercoastie · 03 July 2003, 15:02

Go on, you know you want to!

Richard B · 03 July 2003, 15:16

Nigel,

Excellent account of your mini-epic. I went around the island a couple of weeks ago in a 6.5m RIB and felt felt a little glow of satisfaction... Hah, you've shown me up as a softie now!

A friend of mine has a 2nd hand 2-stroke 15hp he wants to sell. VGC very low hours. Only catch is that it's in Devon, but I visit often. Let me know if any interest?

Richard.

Nghost · 03 July 2003, 15:26

Its a bit like that add for chips : "what do you prefer Daddy or chips" but "ribs or sibs".

Forgot to say, the Cuddy realy keeps the spray down, and is great for launching through surf. (as long as the boat is facing INTO the waves)

On our IOW trip we stopped in freshwater for a bladder stop.
and swamped the boat when going through the surf.
We bailed the stuff above the airdeck and pulled the bung at the back to let the water out under the airdeck. we could not plane untill we empted all the water out, that took 15 minutes.

This is Ray at Shanklin (the owner of Grey Slug 2) on our trip.

Nghost · 03 July 2003, 15:32

Just PM'ed you Richard.

Keith Hart · 03 July 2003, 16:02

I really like that cuddy. So I get hold of an old tent with fibreglass poles and...

Keith Hart