Oztayls-Restoring and sailing a vintage scow Moth

Max Headroom is a vintage International scow Moth in need of restoration and I'll be posting updates on his progress here.

26 February 2014

South African Dabchick scow

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This is the little high performance 12 foot Dabchick that most South African kids cut their sailing teeth on. I learned to sail on these and...
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20 October 2013

First sail of restored Max Headroom

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On Saturday 5th October I took Max to Grahamstown Lake near Newcastle, NSW. The lake is fresh water fed from both runoff and the Williams Ri...
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04 June 2013

Control lines

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The control lines had seen better days so I ordered some 4mm Spectraspeed. I like this stuff very much as it is tough and has a hard low fri...
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02 June 2013

New shrouds

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I found a few broken strands in the stainless steel wire shrouds, so they need replacing. The working life of ss wire stays is around 10 yea...
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Spreaders

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A common method used for spreaders in the 60’s and through to the 90’s was to make up the spreaders by riveting together some 1” x 1/8” alum...
01 June 2013

Rudder stock and tiller

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I really like the design of the stock and tiller on this boat. It is very Mothie. What I mean by this is that it’s minimalist in every sense...

Deck painted and fitted out

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Due to the staining on the rear deck area I decided to paint this also. For anti-slip on other boats I’ve used sugar or caster sugar mixed i...
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