Popular Post sgtjackass Posted February 6, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted February 6, 2017 Hello Sir's This may or may not interest anyone. Last year i spied a boat hull on trademe. I followed it for a while and the price kept dropping. Sold my boat in a hurry and purchased sight unseen. Drove up to Auckland to pick it up only to be met by a small crowd of Nautical Barrys who had built it as a team many years ago and never quite got her going. Many yarns were had over some fine homebrewed beer. Apparently they all wanted to escape their wifes and decided to build a boat so they could take turns escaping their wifes in years to come. Many traditional barry techniques were used in the construction, such as hiring a tail lift truck to turn it over. Specs are 7m Long, 2.4m wide. Constructed from Kauri Frames and Cedar Plank. Weight- 600kg! I tidied her up, put a 65hp outboard on it, a fabric soft top and use it for fishing and drinking beers. Forgive the name, i let my 5yo name it. 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mof Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Mate she's a beaut Rename Barry please 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajg193 Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Always blaming the kids aye.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bling Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 I feel like there should be at least a dozen progress photos between those two. Post em up! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Barries revenge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Gruntfuttock Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 If were in 'straya I'd suggest Barry-mundi instead of Goldfish. But yeah, build pics... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bombsquad Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Nautical Barrys are some of the best Barrys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtjackass Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share Posted March 22, 2019 Shit im slack Heres more build photos 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sgtjackass Posted March 22, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 22, 2019 When i brought the boat, it basically had no outboard well.. The builder didnt think it would plane so sized the transom to take a 15hp motor In order to fit a larger outboard, my and a mate built a alloy pod to hold it. Fitted a Suzuki DT65 that was sold as a write off due to severe corrosion in the bores Put a new headgasket on it and ran it like that for 3 years, until it finally started showing compression issues. Started looking for a new engine, but it had to have a left hand sided control because for some reason my boat is left hook Last week i aquired its new engine. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtjackass Posted April 25, 2019 Author Share Posted April 25, 2019 Took old motor off, put new motor on. Wired new motor, went to trim it up, solendoids clicking but no movement from pump motor. Bugger Had to remove one side of mounting bracket to get at this bugger. Cracked it open to find that the commutator and bushes were covered in oxide Sanded them back and hit it with a liberal amount of contact cleaner Put back together and is working ok, a little noisy and a little slow, will replace in future. Leaves me with this- Ready to start on a fine day with no kids. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rumrum Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 any updates ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtjackass Posted June 30, 2019 Author Share Posted June 30, 2019 Had issue after issue with getting this in the water. Life got in the way Had an afternoon free yesterday so decided to roll this out of the shed and give it a go Took a while to start but finally fired up with a smooth steady idle. Bundled up wife and three kids, launched the boat, found the first major issue - the gear selection was reversed. Put it in reverse to got forward spec. Motored out of napier harbour, put it in forward and disconnected the shift cable (throttle is limited in reverse), gave it some beans and found the second major issue It wont rev over 3000 rpm, not quite enough to get the boat on the plane. My gut feeling is that its way overpropped. I need to check that the throttles are opening fully, but i might just go and get another prop before i look into it much more. The prop on it looks very grabby, but has no pitch numbers to compare. The gear reversal can be easily fixed i think, instead of putting the cable onto the push lug i need to put it on the pull lug inside the control box. I was looking for an excuse to open up the control box anyway and attach a temp guage and warning LED's to the various sensor output wires in there. The good news is that the outboard is charging, starts and stops first pop, and is smooth and quiet We still motored out to spot x, and had a hour of good fishing, came home with 10 gurnard and some kahawai for smoking. The cats will be happy! 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyteler Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 Noice. Gurnard are the best. There's always something wrong / to be done on a boat so don't let that put you off. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtjackass Posted July 1, 2019 Author Share Posted July 1, 2019 Cheers Kyteler Even more so when the boats been built by a Barry and nothing is interchangeable, for example notice steering is on the left... After looking into my shift issues and pouring over parts diagrams, it looks like we have a problem. The shift cam must have flipped when i was changing the impellor. Its now facing 'down', and thus has reversed my shift pattern. im going to try and flip it back over using the tiny access granted by removing the shift shaft. Its going to be painful, im going to want to throw something. Otherwise il have to remove the entire bearing carrier/ prop shaft assembly and do it from the back. Good times with boats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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