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