Tag: Twiggy

Vlog 360: Kewenay

Posted on February 19, 2025February 19, 2025 by David Johns

Having revealed my ‘new’ tiny narrowboat, I have received lots of questions including plenty about what’s going to happen to my fibreglass cabin cruiser, Twiggy. So here I sit down for a chat about it all.

Vlog 351: Resins to be Cheerful

Posted on November 20, 2024November 20, 2024 by David Johns

This is part 4 of my complete transom rebuild. In this thrilling episode, I place reinforcing glass fibre into the inner skin of the transom using vinylester resin. And I get buzzed by a hornet (maybe).

Vlog 350: Glue Monday

Posted on November 10, 2024November 10, 2024 by David Johns

Having removed all the rotten transom wood (see the prior videos in my ‘Twiggy transom’ playlist, link below), I now needed to patch a couple of holes on the inner fibreglass skin. This video documents that process.

Vlog 349: A Soggy Bottom

Posted on October 30, 2024 by David Johns

Ignoring, for the moment, the vast gashes I have carved into the back of the boat which will need fixing later, in this episode I tear into the transom and start removing the – extremely soggy – wooden core.

Vlog 346: Cutting Corners

Posted on October 1, 2024October 1, 2024 by David Johns

As described in the prior videos about the refurbishment of Twiggy, my 48-year-old fibreglass cabin cruiser, I needed to cut the back off the boat in order to replace the rotten wood in the transom. Unfortunately, things didn’t go entirely to plan.

Vlog 342: Transom Devil

Posted on August 20, 2024 by David Johns

An episode in which I drill holes in the boat’s transom, to discover if the wood core is rotten. This also necessitates removal of the outboard motor.

Vlog 337: Wet T-Shirt

Posted on June 30, 2024August 5, 2024 by David Johns

Having brought the boat out of water for refurbishment, it first needed a really good shower to get some of the long-standing muck off. It’s still a bit mucky in places but it was a good start.

Vlog 335: Nimble Boating

Posted on June 10, 2024August 5, 2024 by David Johns

There are some aspects of the boat’s refurbishment that simply can’t be achieved (or are difficult to do) while it’s in the water so in this video I took the boat from its mooring at Stourport a little way down the river to a wharf where it’s been hauled out so that I can work on it on dry land.

Vlog 333: The Write Stuff

Posted on May 20, 2024August 5, 2024 by David Johns

Two things: a) after at least two years, I have finally finished by book all about the canals, and 2) an update on the Twiggy refurbishment.

Vlog 329: Carpet Diem

Posted on April 10, 2024April 10, 2024 by David Johns

As part of the ongoing refurbishment of my cabin cruiser “Twiggy”, I have ripped the carpet out of the front cabin, as you will see in this video. You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs, as they say.