Can Simon find a cheap and effective way to solve his planking problem. The engine’s still playing up and SPOILER ALERT there is food in this program !
How splendid to find that Floating Kitchen has now found it's way on to RU-vid. As you can see my name is Richard Smith but I am the "Richard Jones" that appears as the "engine expert"! Yes the TV Co got my name a bit wrong! Always been a bit of a joke that! Seeing the prog on here again brings back some great memories of that summer in 2006 when it was being made. I was involved off and on for a period of 6 weeks and there were some rather too exciting moments which didn't get to air. Also quite a lot of "translation" of what people said by the voice over fellow into, well, gibberish. I'm still trying to work out what the "electrical charge" was that I was recommending for the engine! Total rubbish - but I suppose it might sound good to folks who wouldn't want to know the detail of modifications to the Kelvin's petrol ignition system! (Yes I know it's a diesel! Look these engines up!). Despite that it appears Simon was alone on the boat for the channel crossing, there were in fact four of us. Pete asleep for most of it in the bow cabin, me steering Water Lily behind the support boat for a lot of the way and poor Simon below operating the big pump float switch manually. Oh yes and Larry doing whatever filming he could bearing in mind it was night time. Eventually WL got to do her one night moored by Notre Dame as a Floating Kitchen (I left the scene at the end of Part 4 - no passport - had to jump ship (literally) and come home on the support boat. Unfortunately the story goes downhill after that and to be brief, she was left in a marina on the River Marne, had to be sold to pay the marina fees, new owner couldn't afford to maintain her, she sank on the river bank until the French authorities had to crane her out. At this point her hull broke up and the bits were left on the bank to dry out and then be burnt. No one knows what happened to the splendid Kelvin K3 engine but I suspect the French just scrapped it! I found out all this sad aftermath story entirely by chance with the help of someone who lives aboard a boat on the nearby River Yonne. Finally I've always wondered what happened next for Simon Woodhouse. I hope he's OK but I haven't been able to track him down.
Wow! Steaming the planks helped get them round the curves of the hull. He must have got that idea from cooking spaghetti. The boat looks good and the food even better.
Simon I watched you with Tom when you done the other boat ,I have every bit of faith in you to complete this one as well pity I live to far away or I would have came and given you a hand free of charge.but your doing fine good luck mate.🤗
"Spoiler alert there is food in this program" LOL, I think most of us are sick and tired of bloody cooking /bake off lazy TV. Boats however lets us overlook the padding.
2 questions, what has he done with Keryl and you surely do not do a sea trial on a boat that has been idle for so long and an engine that is a little suspect in the English Channel at night.
Wow! Talk about boat building basics. What is this, scripted with actors and dumb writers. Should never have been attempted in 4 weeks. You won't catch me on that boat. Crap. By the way wood steaming has been in boat building books for centuries! Geniuses.
;) appreciate your sense of humour. Given the number of people in the comment calling out on “steaming invention by Simon” I think it would just make sense to call out that Simon had to use well known technology but use his creativity to build simple steaming jig for the project. Thank for reading the comments anyway 👍🏻🙏🏻🙂
