Hope this is the right place but, just before Christmas last year my son Neal 'fired' off an Email
at 02-30hrs on a Sunday morning to Gillingham Marina to see if they had any jobs going. The
upshot of this is he started work within 1 week. For a general handyman/person he does many
different jobs/tasks.

He is at the moment a very happy chappy as he has been let loose on working on this boat.

The 'Royal Nore'
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The dining room/forward cabin. (Big ain't it)
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And this one is due in soon for a re-varnish. What you can see here is £12,000 worth of varnish.
There are 8 coats on there and the only way to re do it is to strip it all off and start again.

The Havengore.
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So that's what happened to the royal yacht when HRH was forced to sell it !

Best regards,


Joe
P.S. Good luck to your son - can he swim ?

'Ruled' Britannia perhaps?

Quote from: joe cassidy on March 26, 2014, 08:50:21 PM
P.S. Good luck to your son - can he swim ?

He don't need any luck the jammy so n so. He's getting a £1 hour pay rise from
April 1^st and the same again on 1^st September, and yes he can swim but, these
babies when worked on are hoisted out and cradled into a 'very large' workshop.

Gillingham Marina has a reputation for extremely good workmanship. They have
an ongoing contract with the RNLI to do their lifeboats and can lift and work on
boats of 60 tons and 78' long.

Roger

"What you can see here is £12,000 worth of varnish.
There are 8 coats on there and the only way to re do it is to strip it all off and start again".

and a few pound of elbow grease as well

and a few pound of elbow grease as well


No not that varnish. It is applied by spraying and, in the correct temperature
and humidity controlled atmosphere it levels and sets like glass. If you try
and rub it down/back between coats you ruin the final finish..

It's good in 2014 that someone can be really proud of the job they do. Maybe things will improve so that youth employment, as well as adult employment, can offer such opportunities. I think my father felt the same way the day I started my first job as a Student Apprentice at Rolls Royce Motor Car Division in Crewe. Taking him through the braided ropes onto the RR stand at the Motor Show and sitting him in the drivers seat of a Silver Shadow about a year later was a high point - for both of us.

Enjoy.

Quote from: ParkeNd on March 27, 2014, 08:09:55 AM
It's good in 2014 that someone can be really proud of the job they do.

He is happy and proud of his job. It gives him and his colleagues a warm feeling that
a boat that has come in, in a real mess leaves the marina looking like new.
There is sometimes a downside though. He just recently spent a total of 128 hours
polishing a full set of stainless hand rails using many grades of paper, only for the
owner to decide to fit new ones. My son recons the owner was lucky to walk out of
there alive

Crewe is most about new car build. But in the late 60s and early 70s there was a green shed by the railway line that was Car Repair. We had an almost new Silver Shadow come in that had been in the floods in Florence. It was a solid block of mud. Two employees bought it for about £500 (new price £6400) and were going to chip the mud out over several years. Don't know how it went.

Well done  for his initiative, an interesting job which might lead to various  opportunites
in the leisure/luxury boat industry.