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Postby chuck » Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:57 am

I have been building a yatch all summer, well firstly a large tent from scaffolding and tarps then the boat. Its for my bosses son, we set up a time lapse cam to record it and theres a web site about it also...
http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~chaos/boat/
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check it out its very good
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Postby Muad_dib77 » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:17 pm

Hi Chuck,

That sounds like a pretty amazing project.
Sadly though I can't get to the time lapse movies.
I get an "account error" when I click the link to the page with the movies on it.
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Postby chuck » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:50 pm

sorry about that, seems down alright when its up and running will post again,
was pretty amazing alright and a lot of hard work most week ends since last christmas, site has not been updated for a while, finished phase one last week all steel work has been completed welds have been primed will be moving it to Malahide for fitting out and rigging out shortly, will post a pic then should be some sight,
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This is a pic of one that was built in Holland , the one here is excatly the same.
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Postby Muad_dib77 » Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:15 pm

Holy-Jaysus..the thing is huge!!
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Postby chuck » Tue May 16, 2006 12:19 am

http://media.putfile.com/boat-video

Old post new video hope it works i can hear the music but not see the pics :(
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Postby CJ » Tue May 16, 2006 8:02 am

chuck wrote:http://media.putfile.com/boat-video

Old post new video hope it works i can hear the music but not see the pics :(


Nice snapshop of the building process chuck, is she sea worthy yet?

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Postby chuck » Tue May 16, 2006 8:47 am

Not yet CJ work ground to a halt before Xmas but engine has now arrived which hopefully we will be installing in the next few weeks, off topic a bit like your new car :smt023 :smt023
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