Letters
I love the scrape of broken glass LETTER OF THE MONTH
SUPPORTED BY OLD PULTENEY WHISKY
I read with interest Mike Burn’s article on scrapers. I totally agree that a scraper possessing a good quality steel is a joy to use. As a joiner, I specialise in restoration/remaking sash windows and doors and I have restored some clinker boats. Mr Burn advises readers to “avoid the fancy carbide-tipped scrapers as carbide cannot be made sharp enough for this wood cutting job”.
I would disagree with this assertion as I use these carbide scrapers as well as the normal ones. I fi nd them an excellent product and the fact that there is a knob at the working end so as to give extra grip and downward force is a huge advantage. The latest boat I scraped down inside and out was a Dublin Bay Mermaid, 17ft clinker half-deck
dinghy (my second one). I used a Bahco scraper and found it a brilliant tool. (I have no affi liation to Bahco or any of its employees). The carbide blade is resharpenable
and will give the edge required – just remove the blade and sharpen fl at on a red diamond sharpening stone, using white spirits as a lapping fl uid. I was surprised that Mr Burn
didn’t mention probably one of the best, and cheapest, scrapers available: 32oz/4mm clear fl oat glass. Cut waste pieces 8x2in and you have a brilliant scraper. When it gets dull, just cut half an inch off and you have a new edge. My family, all joiners, have been using glass like this for generations. Curves can be produced by tapping an old pane of glass in the middle and generally you will be left with a variety of both concave and convex cutting edges of various sizes. Eugene Burke, Co Waterford, Ireland
Wind tax Time out
I thoroughly enjoyed your article ‘Eilean’s Atlantic Crossing’ in the April issue. It was really well written and photographed – much more interesting to me than the racing stuff... The magazine did very well without you for a spell, so why not take another trip and write it up so we can all enjoy it? Leo Colsell, by email
Thanks Leo, I have had a few of these… I wonder if the readers are trying to tell me something? – Ed.
96 CLASSIC BOAT MAY 2012
Please do no fail to take the wind tax plan (CB 286) seriously! You may think our government is pandering to G20 and the EU, but it is, in fact, the fi rst step in a gigantic swindle designed to kill off British yachting. Most people are aware of the government’s plans to prevent the use of red diesel outside UK waters. The next step will be to prevent the use of British wind outside our waters. Finally, the Border Agency has revitalised its plans to make all British yachts report entry to or departure from our territorial waters. They will thus be able to prevent any yacht going foreign with British fuel or wind and arrest those caught doing it. Meanwhile, foreign yachts will be free to ply our own sacrosanct waters without let or hindrance! Dick Dawson, Yarmouth, IoW
“one of the best and cheapest scrapers available: 32oz/4mm clear fl oat glass”
Meet the original Mighty Mo
I am Mighty Mo, namesake of the International One Design featured in the letter titled The Pin, CB284. I felt very nostalgic reading it as I have often wondered what became of the Mighty Mo, and it took me back to happy weekends at the Hamble with my father. I also loved the idea of the gold tie pins presented by my father John Goulandris, completing the circle from original owner to current owner.
My father is still alive, though no longer in the best of health. The attached photo shows ‘Big John’ on his 90th birthday with my mother and myself with my parents on the occasion of Big John’s 90th birthday. Mo Percival (nee Goulandris), by email
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