Schooner Ixdos – Phuket – Thailand

December 2009

July 2009

British International School – Creativity, Action, Service – 2009

Deck-house June 2009

May 2009

April 2009

January to March 2009

2008

Some jobs completed in 2008:

Make derrick and fit.
Deckhouse freshwater drains
Fore-hatch.
Hawse pipes.
Samson post.
Stern post.
SS400 galv chain-plates x 20.
Main hatch hinges and lock
Galv pipes for anchor chain
Stainless steel fittings – bunks and saloon table
Fore-mast and mainmast supports galv
Seal for’ard E/R bulkhead at base.
Steel deck fittings for’ard
Log and echo-sounder housings
Finish for’ard stringers
Cockpit drains
Lead to for’ard end of keel
Galv pipe inserts in E/R bulkheads
Mig welding.
Call Jotun rep re visit. Feb 08
Fit rubber to tank supports.
Fix crane
Replace tanks
Clean stainless
Jotun inspection March 08
Grind, paint with Barrier, outside.
Clean ship
Touch-up
Scuppers
Poop and fids
Poop side shield
Paint foc’sle deck with Jotamastic and eggshell Hardtop 3+2 coats
*Order Jotun April 08
Paint hull with Jotamastic 3-4 coats
Paint topsides and transom white Hardtop 3 coats
Check welds throughout
*Survey
Blue tarpaulin for’ard – N
Main ladder
For’ard: ***Fix derrick
ER BH weld
St st holders and rings
For’ard: Last weld check June 08
Black tarpaulin – N
Grind, clean, paint with Barrier
Paint with Jotamastic 3 coats
Paint bilge with Penguard
Poop flanges July 08
Aft: Last weld check
Limber holes
Ballast steel covers
Battery steel floor supports
Lead ballast
Welds aft
Black tarpaulin
Line keel with rubber
Foc’sle door
Aft Water tank supports
ER big rings
Aft St st holders and rings Aug 08
Make ply bilge shelving, chain locker.
DH St st holders and rings
Blue tarpaulin
ER tank straps
Limber holes
ER ladder
ER supports
DH hatch welds
Bulwarks – bend st st fittings
Order 1.5 bar and 4mm plate
Half-fill Rudder and Skeg with oil
Weld horse bolts
Fore-hatch
Derrick bases and water pipes
Poop: Grind, clean, paint hull welds with Jotamastic
E/R Keel – Seal limber holes Oct 08
Tarpaulins
Aft: Tangs for backstays
Paint Bulwarks with Jotamastic and eggshell Hardtop 5 coats
Weld for’ard ballast plate
DH hatches
Hole in rudder for emergency steering
Make main horse holes
Make eye bolts aft
Galvanized rings in clinic
For’ard flange tops covered with rubber Dec 08
Filler and touch-up topsides aft
New tarpaulin – N
Check freezer foam
Prepare poop deck
Paint poop deck and aft DH eggshell Hardtop 2 coats

Guardian Buffalo



Overtime

Monsoon

December 2007


For’ard



Clinic hatch



Deckhouse




Chainplates

Engine room – fuel tanks

Poop


Cockpit



Davits

Schooner Ixdos – July 2007
Deckhouse





Schooner Ixdos – June 2007
Poop Deck

Cockpit

Transom

Bulwarks

Schooner Ixdos – March 2007

Schooner Ixdos – February 2007

Schooner Ixdos – January 2007

Schooner Ixdos – Christmas 2006

We hope you will enjoy this update to our web-site so kindly completed by my son Simon Aran in Wales.

We have now identified the location where we intend to carry out the next phase of construction: Thai Marine, Phuket, who are generously prepared to have us free of charge.

We did as much as possible at Khun Luck’s workshop. A strong 8 wheeled trailer has been built and our schooner is now resting on it. Two factors prevented further construction there: the weight of more steel and the height of the deckhouse as we have to navigate some bridges. The framework for the poop deck and cockpit is in place but the deck is not. We must weigh about 13 tons at the moment and I felt it was prudent to hold the next delivery of steel until we arrive at our new site. The bridges are 5m and our height on trailer is not far off that.

Our next jobs are to plate the poop and cockpit, and to construct the deckhouse.
In June Phuket was blessed with an interesting visit from the good ship Doulos. Their engineers set to work designing systems for us and actually combined a compressor and accumulator to make our fresh water system. My son Johnny was inspired by the crew of Doulos and was accepted to join the ship on a 2 month STEP programme when he received some exciting training.

During the year following our appeal we have been blessed with donations amounting to 651,465 Baht (GBP 9,300, US$ 18,000) from more than 300 kind folk all over the world together with various other gifts.

Recent donations for which we are very grateful come from: a coffee morning held by the congregation of St Mary’s Trimley, England, a school fete held by Horizons Learning Centre, Phuket, the sale of our T shirts at the Community Church of Chiang Mai, and from the Brothers of St Andrew, Watsonville, California, together with a number of personal donations. Rotary, Phuket have confirmed that they will provide us with medicine for our clinic.

I continue to raise funds by teaching mathematics and my state pension helps.

Construction costs so far amount to 2,696,000 Baht
(GBP 38,500, US$72,900) and I estimate we are about 60% of the way.

Thank you indeed for your thoughts, prayers and contributions. Our huge leap in faith has been sustained by your enthusiasm and we anticipate with excitement the eventual launching of Schooner Ixdos.

With Love

Patrick

Patrick Vickers
P.O. Box 315,
A. Muang,
Phuket P.O.,
Phuket 83000
Thailand
Tel: +66 (0) 84 176 1832
pat @ mission-ship.com

Ixdos is a 60ft steel schooner. She is being built to Bruce Roberts design. The ship survived the tsunami untouched and is now moving towards completion. Construction has been mainly funded by Patrick Vickers from his maths teacher’s salary with significant voluntary help from all over the world. Patrick is a Christian British teacher who worked at Dulwich International College, Phuket for 5 years. His wife, Neet, is Thai and the couple have an 18 year-old son John Mark. They all speak Thai and English.

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