It was a hot day in the shed with temperatures over 30 degrees under the Alsynite. Harry met me when I got there and promptly left for the a Men’s shed morning and it wasn’t long before Adrian, JP and Paul W arrived. We unclamped the frames and after breaking the shaft of a glued…
I was late due to what I thought was an emergency dash to the Little IGA for cake but in the end nobody wanted to open it preferring the biscuits at break time. Adrian, JP and Nick had the shed open and were examining the results of yesterday’s glueing. Not bad! Nick and Adrian set…
Today we were expecting our first VIP visitors and so I got to the shed a little earlier than usual to make sure everything was tidy and the urn was on and the fruit cake set up for easy access in case there was a rush. And there sure was a rush. In came JP…
3 Mar 2022 Yesterday JP and I called into Denmarks’s amazing Country Tool and Auto shop on Strickland Street to buy a fire extinguisher for the shed (hope we won’t need it!). The shop is an Aladdin’s cave of auto parts and specialty tools but the best thing is the service from the couple who…
Tuesday 1 March 2022 New day and a new face. Colin M from Albany turned up just at the same time as I did bearing a packet of ginger nuts and his own tool kit. He signed up to become our 36th member and I learnt that he used to teach woodwork, which is definitely…
28 Feb 2022 Adrian arrived shortly after I’d opened the shed with home made chocolate cake so after a short time trying to flatten out the top of our layout table, we hopped straight into them. Getting this board level, straight and screwed into place proved to be challenging. Every time we thought we had…
24 Feb 2022 The weather today was grey with a warm drizzle but it couldn’t dampen my excitement about the imminent arrival of the St Ayles skiff kits. Thanks to the really helpful guys at Denmark Haulage the kits were being delivered to Thorntons Mitre 10 in the morning. Denmark Haulage are now a sponsor…
Tuesday 22 February A quiet start to the morning with only Adrian and I turning out initially to prepare for the Year 11 Denmark Senior High School boatbuilding class turning up with their teacher’s Cam and Patrick to level up the building frame with their laser leveller. I’d bought some biscuits and cake and so…
21 February 2022 A small crew of myself, Mark H, and Ian O turned up today and Harry was on hand to share some of his wood collection for stabilising our long plank layout bench. Mark set up a couple of vertical legs at the ends while I insisted on a diagonal shelf prop in…
Thursday 17 Feb. Excitement(?) had been mounting for Pete’s Epoxy Workshop. I had got tea and home baked Anzac biscuits organised thanks to my wife. The doors opened at 9.45 and Kay had already set up an urn and mugs for tea. In walked a pleasing crowd of people past the desk with the Covid…
(Dave Cliff reporting) Its finally real, we’ve started the process that will lead to two St Ayles Skiffs being built in Harry and Kay’s wonderful shed. I rushed to get there a little before the allotted time of 10am with a ute full of tools and bits of kitchen top I had found at the…
On Wednesday John Sampson and I drove over to Nannup with a flat bed trailer very kindly lent by Clem Williams and picked up the building frame and attached moulds from the Nannup Mens Shed. The trip went well and the trailer turned out to be perfect after Kevin Bird and John Thompson of the…
These plans of the 6.7m St Ayles skiff are the only plans we will receive to enable the volunteers at Denmark Community Rowing Association (Denmark Rowers) to build the boats. They can be printed on AO paper at 1:8 scale and have both metric and English measurements on them. They were originally downloaded as a…