My 1968 Olsen Nimbus restoration project.

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Thanks for the link We'll see what she's really worth.... Breaks my heart, but no point in me worrying about it all the time because I'm not home.
I got a phone call the other week because the cover had blown off. She needs a new loving caretaker.

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No sniffs, plenty watching, and lots of views. Hopefully a bidding frenzy will start at the last minute. We'll see. Been down this afternoon and put on a new cover.
Back to Italy in the morning. I really need to concentrate on my job at the mo. I think she'll be signed over at the end of May.
My new office is coming along nicely. I made it very clear to the yard that my OCD wouldn't tolerate miss-matched deck plates. They made a pretty good job of matching up the chequer plate

[mickrick]

Sorry about the neck exercises! Have fun in Galicia by the way

[mickrick]

It's looking like she'll be signed over next week.
We'll be based in Mallorca
One of the boxes the job ticked for me

[mickrick]

It is in Mallorca

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I'll be based home for the winter, but I'll be away in the summer season.
This year I already spent 6 months here in Italy, for the build of the yacht I'm working on.
I won't get back now untill the end of September, except for a weekend at the end of this month.
My life has changed in the 10 years I have owned her, as have my priorities.
I just don't have the time to finish her, and keep her up.
Time to let someone else take over custody and move on.
I have enjoyed getting her this far.

Edited by mickrick on Thursday 5th May 06:17

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No takers. So she may go to UK. I've passed her on to a good friend who'll finish her.

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She's looking good! Nearly there. I'll post pictures when I have a bit more time.
I've been super busy in my new job, (It's been almost two years already!) and just got home for a few days. one more trip until the end of the month, and I have holidays.
So I'll dig some pictures out.
The mast just came back from Collars, she's had the old track filled, and a new bronze track fitted.
The rudder's been out, and been re-bushed, engine is in and running, bottom blasted and epoxied.
Oh, and she now has a custom trailer to move her about on

[mickrick]

In the water soon 🙂

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Huntsman said:

Oh! I thought you had passed her on to someone else?

Please to hear she's progressing, its not taken too long, friend of mine has a Huntsman in his garden he's been working on for 15 years.

I did. I passed her on to my Pal in Hamble. The deal was, I gave him the boat to finish, and we will share her.
That way we both get to have some fun, instead of her sitting unfinished.
He's done a nice job.
I hope to be over in Octoberish to do some courses, so I'm hoping we can have a bash around the Solent.
I'm pretty sure you'll see her around before that though

[mickrick]

I built a nice big shed, at the far end of the garden

[mickrick]

She’s looking good. My Mate did a lovely job of finishing her off.
Unfortunately we couldn’t take her out while I was over in UK, as he’s just had a knee replacement.
Now I need to put a timeline together for Classic Boat Magazine, who are very interested in producing an article.

[mickrick]

Thank you Sir! Will do. 👍
I posted more pictures on my mobile but they didn’t show.
I’ll try again...

[mickrick]

Thank you for the kind comments.
I would say she's finished. I really can't think of anything more that needs doing. She's a new boat. Even a set of brand new sails waiting to go on

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She’s been refused entry for the Hamble classics. I’m gutted!

She doesn't meet their "Criteria of Classic Style" "Being of a hard chine design and also with an unconventional deck edge design"
We've been told we may want to enter the RAFYC Battle of Britain Regatta, "I'm sure the Club would welcome your entry" wtf!

Edited by mickrick on Saturday 17th August 11:11

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Thank you Sir! And thank you for the tip on the starter. I won’t ask you how you found out about that......
I’m working my notice at the moment, so I will be a free Man at the end of September, and plan to get over to Blighty for a bit of bashing around the Solent

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XJSJohn said:

mickrick said:

without reading back through the thread, Svip cant be much younger that '71 ??

And surely she meets "Nordic Modern Classic" design?

Plenty of Pre '71 Maxi 77's with hard chines and very similar cabin top designs knocking about ...

She’s 1968. I think they’re being a bit mean.
So she’s glass-fiber, and they never made them in wood.
She’s a classic in my eyes...

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Huntsman said:

A long time ago, I kept my Huntsman 28 at HYS Port Hamble, one day, I arrived at the boat to find someone sat on my foredeck with a rope on my bow bollard tied to the jib of a crane, with a day boat dangling in the wind. I wasn’t best pleased, the biggest risk was that the plonker left it tied to my bollard as the tide dropped and would have at the least ripped the bollard off, of worse. The Plonker is the same plonker that now runs the Hamble Classics.

Once a plonker always a plonker.

That would be "Jonty" then...