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W. Trout & Son Ltd, Ferry Road, Topsham, Exeter, Devon, EX3 0JJ

UP DATED - 23/12/2011 - NEWS - The Office has moved from the Workshop into the Barge! This will provide a bigger office as well as making the Barge Chandlery more accessible to you, the Boat Owners. It will mean Boat Owners will not be able to access the workshop unless escorted to view work being carried out on your boat. Much safer for all! --------------- Work we have done & we can do for you - * Fit a Bow Thuster in to a Regal 2665 * Re-fit Ring 750 - NOW FOR SALE, SEE BROKERAGE PAGE * Remove Keel, repair keel, repair hull inside & out & replace keel ----------------------------- Keel & Hull damage repair The Yacht with the damaged keel is brought ashore 1st the keel is removed The yacht is carefully brought into the work shop for hull repair External damage to the hull Internally, keel bolts to remove & damage to repair The damaged heel of the keel Damage to the keel The finished repaired keel & hull re-attached & waiting for anti-foul ----------------------------- Ring 750 re-fit - NOW FOR SALE £24,995.00 See Brokerage page for full details Left in storage for some years, the Rib needed repairs and refitting out and Tubes had to be replaced The rib stripped of tubes and furniture The Console being refitted with the mass of wiring to the electronics The Fore deck being repaired The Foredeck with lockers & tubes finished the Sternwell being fitted out The Yamaha V6, 200hp fitted to the stern The Ring 750 finished and ready to go NOW FOR SALE £24,995.00 See Brokerage page for full details -------------------------------------- Fitting a Bow Thruster into a Regal 2665 Hull - June 2011 The Hole is cut through for the GRP pipe to be fitted glassing in the GRP pipe Filling & fairing around the tube ends Inside the hull, tube prior to being glassed in The Finished internal installation of the bow thruster The Prop fitted inside the tube and ready to go back into the water What a difference to the turning circle! ------------------ Winter 2009, Jason, an American, joins us In early autumn we were approached by Jason Virok, a Californian wooden boat builder looking for local work. After carrying out some wooden repairs for us, unfortunately we were unable to find more wood repair work. So, to keep occupied and for the love of it, Jason completed a Whitehall Skiff he had already started, in our shed. The moulds set up on the frame, the keel in & a few planks steamed in amongst the usual repairs in the workshop The moulds from the bow The sight of a wooden skiff being built in the workshop alongside our other repair work excited a lot of delight and comment! The skiff is larch on oak fastened with copper rivets, The nealy finished skiff ----------------------- Jason is also carried out repairs to Pegasus, a 60ft, Bristol Pilot Cutter built by the Bristol Classic Boat Company 2007/2008 for The Island Trust, an Exeter based Charity of 36 years. The damage is to the aft port quarter bulwark Pegasus repair in progress on a cold & frosty morning The Trust has been sending disadvantaged young people sailing, both in dinghies and off shore. Pegasus, which follows in a long line of the famous Bristol Pilot Cutters is extremely pretty and fast, having won one leg of the Tall Ships Race in her class, as well as coming second overall last summer. The Trust continues to send beneficiaries dinghy sailing in Salcombe based on the converted Mersey Ferry, the Egremont, which is owned by the Island Cruising Club. For details of the Trust see www.theislandtrust.org.uk, a for the Pegasus www.islandcutter.co.uk. More information and pictures to follow as the build & repair progresses - -------------------------------------
Trouts Quay Autumn work - Back to normal, boats in storage - updated 6th December 2008 The last pour of concrete to the gate went in on Thursday, 27th November and the quay was finished off during following week. We were right to grab the opportunity and get this work done. Once the old concrete top was taken off the true state of the hard core was revealed and it was not good! Our grateful thanks to Alan Sands of Sands Engineering Consultants, Andy Bailey and his team from A B Special Projects who worked so hard and looked after us and our neighbours during the whole project. Also to Andrew Thomas of Saxton Piling Ltd and his team of Cornish men, who drove up and back every day and worked so hard to get the piling done. We are full of admiration of you all.
The yard cleared and ready to start work on. We had a couple of weeks to get to this point and it was a bit of push! At the end of the 1st day and the top is broken up ready to be taken away to crushed so that it can be brought back to repack as hard core where needed. At the end of the 1st week the top is cleared and ready for the drilling team. The Drilling Teams came from Cornwall every day, drilled down, then lined the holes and filled them with steel and concrete The view through the office window! When we were not covered in tarpaulin to protect the buildings from the flying mud. Oh dear what a lot of mud! Cutting the trenchs to lay the beams in between the piles under the crane pad at the front, then re-enforcing steel was tied in and the concrete poured. The completed crane pad, all pristine! Re-enforcing steel on the completed crane pad waiting to be laid in and tied for the rest of the concrete slab. The bed of steel work waiting for the concrete pour. The concrete is poured from the concrete mixer through a pump to the long red arm which takes it out to where it has to go! The last pour of concrete is in, looking like a lake! Attention to detail, each edge was ironed out and smoothed off. Looking out across the quay from the gate on Saturday 29th November 2008. A job well done - THANKS 6th December 2008 - Getting back to normal, boats ashore in storage and to be worked on!
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