Tuesday the 1st May and 8 th May

 On Tuesday the 1st of May we travel to Boat Haulage at Birkenhead and to Geoff Bagnal's yard at Milford Marina. Unitec has new Health and Safety requirements for these "off campus experiences" which means that you all need to have filled in an Off Campus Experience Acknowledgment form I will have these with me
Boat Haulage is a company that transports all manner of boats by road, they will describe the loading and unloading procedure they use on and off their trucks, they also build support systems for boats that are being shipped overseas

Geoff Bagnal's Yard is a small slipway operation, this gives a good insight into the differences between a more traditional operation than what you have seen at Gulf Harbour and Westpark.

After our discussion on teak deck repair and leaking windows I decided to put a link to sketches that may help https://picasaweb.google.com/113782465744253657753/RepairAndTransportationSketches


Tuesday 8th May

We have a final group presentation when that is completed the session will follow on with a discussion on the process's for painting. This will give you information that will apply to your case study on repainting a Stewart 34. We could put the information for that under the following headings
Health and Safety and General Hardstand rules Hardstand rules
General Painting Procedure shrink wrap
Preparation preparation video
Coatings and application 
Altex Coatings
Non Skid and Antifouling
Abrasive Paper

I suggest you study the information on the web pages (links provided) to enable everyone to participate in the class discussion you can continue with your case studies in any time that is left

24th April

We have traveled to the Te Atatu boating club and Westpark where we were able to view a number of Repair projects in progress. Discussion at Te Atatu covered such issues as strengthening framing, procedures/techniques for working with carvel planking, placing anodes to protect metal, various trailer designs and cradle types, and protective keel battens

At Westpark we viewed a yacht that had been washed ashore had the keel removed and a large amount of hull damage, this showed an example of a boat that had damage which would cost in excess of the boats value to commercially repair, in other words an insurance company would pay out the insured value to the insurer and put the damaged hull up for tender
We discussed a method for re-sealing a keel as called for in case 8, watched the travelift operating, looked at different cradle types and acro-prop support systems

The next field trip we take will be to Marine Haulage at Birkenhead, date to be confirmed tentatively 1/5/12

After discussion I confirm that the each student now must produce 6 case studies individually, and one case study as part of a group
Cases produced after 3/4/12 will not be in excess of 1500 words