Getting the transom fitted into Cygnet, a trickier job than we thought!

Getting the transom fitted into Cygnet, a trickier job than we thought!
“Cygnet” the trust’s very first build, takes shape.
Getting the design right before starting a new boat build proving to be crucial for Martin, Helen (and the rest of us) as they work out the scantlings*
* set of standard dimensions for parts of a structure, especially in shipbuilding.
By JAYNE OLIVER
A GROUP of maritime enthusiasts has just finished restoring its first old boat to its former glory. North East Maritime Trust volunteers putting the finishing touches to their National Lottery-funded coble restoration project. (IRN 497410)
Trust director David Parker: It has been a wonderful experience – much enthusiasm and interest.
And it’ll be riding the crest of a wave next month when the Royal Diadem II returns to the Tyne.
Over the last year, 20 volunteers from the South Shields-based North East Maritime Trust have been working on the restoration of the old Northumbrian sailing coble.
Continue readinghttps://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/image_galleries/nemt_gallery.shtml
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The North East Maritime Trust fleet, minus the coble Peggy, in September 2011.
There was nowhere to moor up, as the floating pontoon that was to become NE1 Marina and the access to it, was incomplete at that time and we had to turn around and sail back downriver before they lowered the Millenium Bridge.
The crane being used to build the pontoon is at the foot of the Tyne Bridge in the third picture.
From: Alec Renwick <alec.renwick@gmail.com>
Sent: 23 March 2011 08:39
To: Michael Dawson <daw50nmdj@hotmail.co.uk>
Subject: Re: RE: Domain Renewals
Mick, Thanks for your reply and explan’t’n which sounds like it makes sense to continue with Daily. Unfortunately I’m not in a position to help at the moment due to work commitments, which has also led to my recent lack of contact with NEMT.
Keep up the good work.
Alec
On 22 Mar 2011 23:47, “Michael Dawson” <daw50nmdj@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
Alec,
I bought nemaritimetrust.co.uk and registered it with Daily because they were fairly cheap and were very helpful. I thought that this was the best way to develop a site without messing up the nemt.co.uk site that you had registered with Freeparking.
When we went live I had a lot of trouble linking the two names and getting them recognised by the search engines Google, Yahoo etc. and the only way out of this, as far as I could see, was to switch nemt.co.uk from Freeparking to Daily. I apologise again for not asking for your permission or at least letting you know what I was doing.
Nemt.co.uk is directed to nemaritimetrust.co.uk which is in turn directed to the server at ns1.ukhost4u.com where we are hosted for free, please see attached docs from Nominet Whois.
I would appreciate someone else taking the sites over and if you set up a user on Daily * I can willingly pass both the NEMT sites over to you. I have a user on daily where I manage the sites along with one of my own and would like to separate this from the NEMT ones and this would be a simple way to do it. If this was done before May when the domain names are up for renewal it would be useful as well especially if one of them was to be done away with. It is only a bit of extravagance but I think both should be kept.
cheers Mick
As the Rachel Douglas filled the shed she had to have her cabin freed from the deck and hoisted up to clear the deck furniture, mainly the net winch, so that she could be sent down the slipway to allow a crane borrowed from a neighbouring yard to lower the engine safely into place.
On one of the trips to the Scottish East Coast we hit rough weather crossing the Forth and the cabin suffered much damage a decision was taken to get it re-panelled and while it was being done the engine was lifted out and serviced/replaced.
Posted on 2nd December 2010
An infestation of beetle grubs was found in the upper forward frames, decking and bow planking of Sovereign.
Fred Crowell was able to remove the infected areas of timber and replace with new, a difficult task involving awkward scarfing of new timbers to old in very confined spaces.
The forward area is now free of grub problems and in sound condition.