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MooseMan
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 Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:25 pm Post subject: Snipe Restoration for a great customer! |
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A while ago I was approached by a guy who had a little Bowman Snipe in really quite poor condition - he wanted to know if I did commercial restoration.....I said no, but I'll do it for materials and a decent bottle of scotch.
Over the course of a few weeks I turned it from this:
(owners pic)
to this:
(in front, the one behind is mine).
Reglued, straightened out and resoldered the engine and boiler, made boiler shroud and spray hood and repainted the boat where necessary, using paintmatched paint, made a burner. Returned the boat to the owner, who expressed his delight.
Now my turn to express my delight, as I've just had a delivery from Oddbins, containing two bottles of VERY fine single malts (Laphroaig and special reserve Talisker), and two very nice bottles of wine!
Needless to say this gent will not be charged for the £20 of materials I threw at his boat. If you ever have the opportunity to do a Coll McDonnell a good turn, I suggest you take it!
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Rob
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| looks great moose. really impressive at what it can turn out like. should have my bowman yacht on the water soon. |
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IndianaRog
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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Moose, I have a little boat kit due to arrive shortly...how many bottles of scotch would ya want for 200 hours of assembly?????
Seriously, beautiful job of that Snipe, Coll should be over the moon as they say.
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Les
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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A very impressive restoration, well done Moose. 
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That`s lovely......
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Fine job and a great form of payment.
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MooseMan
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| IndianaRog wrote: | Moose, I have a little boat kit due to arrive shortly...how many bottles of scotch would ya want for 200 hours of assembly?????
Seriously, beautiful job of that Snipe, Coll should be over the moon as they say. |
Rog, in your case I'll settle for return flights to Indiana (and given the amount of work involved, possibly a green card  )
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toxx
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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... it's beautiful, Moose! Well done! Excellent job of resto ... the single malts are well earned, mate!
I salute!
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What a great job Odilon.
Well worth the malt.
You certainly earned it mate.
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MooseMan
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Thank you gents.......
.....HIC.....
....honestly constable, not a drop......
God bless the Scots and their Uisge Beatha!!
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Seriously ocifer it was only te martwonies
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Great job Odilon! |
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erikl
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great job! you realy brought that engine back to life.
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flywheel61
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Wow, what a change, a real case of ," Cast your bread upon the waters etc ...", you really deserved the physical accolades.
I'd love a boat but I think my collection needs thinning out anyway, to make a change in direction.
Cheers
Chris
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