Baragoola Week Ending 3 rd November 2012 In attendance this week (members): Ernie, Geoff L, Glen, Peter H, Peter M and Lance Visitors: nil Upcoming events Baragoola Preservation Association Member Christmas Party (details soon) Historic Manly ferry events this week 8th November 1900 – Kuring-gai launched Fundraising Information We need to raise an additional $24,515 in the next couple of months and all donations are very welcome. Donations $2 and above are tax deductible so please consider making a donation to help save this very last original Manly ferry for generations to come. We’re also looking for some equipment donations – in particular a 12KVa or higher diesel generator for backup power and to provide extra power for more tools so that repairs and restoration can proceed quicker (we have extremely limited shore power at the moment). Committee News We’re now on Google+ if you’d like to start following us – largely the content mirrors what’s on our facebook page - https://plus.google.com/b/112509295720850964216/112509295720850964216 Finances Our bank balance increased by $25.05 this week and we had $200 worth of new pumps donated and $300 worth of Rustmaster donated. From the editor Our new postal address:
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Baragoola Week Ending 3rd November 2012
In attendance this week (members): Ernie, Geoff L, Glen, Peter H, Peter M and Lance Visitors: nil
Upcoming events
Baragoola Preservation Association Member Christmas Party (details soon)
Historic Manly ferry events this week
8th November 1900 – Kuring-gai launched
Fundraising Information
We need to raise an additional $24,515 in the next couple of months and all donations are very
welcome. Donations $2 and above are tax deductible so please consider making a donation to help save
this very last original Manly ferry for generations to come. We’re also looking for some equipment
donations – in particular a 12KVa or higher diesel generator for backup power and to provide extra
power for more tools so that repairs and restoration can proceed quicker (we have extremely limited
shore power at the moment).
Committee News
We’re now on Google+ if you’d like to start following us – largely the content mirrors what’s on our facebook page - https://plus.google.com/b/112509295720850964216/112509295720850964216
Finances
Our bank balance increased by $25.05 this week and we had $200 worth of new pumps donated and $300 worth of Rustmaster donated.
From the editor
Our new postal address:
PO Box 374 Crows Nest, NSW, 1585 Please ensure you address any correspondence to this address in future. Over the coming weeks and months we will be increasing our fundraising activities and looking at ways to vastly ramp up our ability to earn money. The restoration of Baragoola needs a large sum of money – we are totally funded by donations and will be seeking ways to interest large commercial donors and sponsors – for this we need the help of all association members and are looking to the broader membership to assist. The small amounts we gain through private donations and sale of items is enough for the day to day running of the association, but we need some serious money if we are to achieve our goal of getting Baragoola slipped and the hull repaired (or areas replaced as needed) if we are to keep this important heritage item going as a viable entity for many years to come. We are asking all our members to assist with this task and helping us find the sort of funding we need – this is something we hope all our members and friends can help out with.
Our sites
Have you visited our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/ManlyFerry ? It’s updated (sometimes several times a day) and is one of our primary methods of communicating with the public at large. We’ve got over 100 ‘likes’ so far! There’s quite a few videos posted there as well. Our posts are also being distributed to a wider audience by another Facebook page called What’s On Northern Beaches? (http://www.facebook.com/Whatsonnorthernbeaches) (not affiliated to us) which is a great resource for people living on the peninsula – check it out. Our main source of important information is our own site at http://baragoola.com.au For people with an interest in Sydney’s ferries (past and current) we have a sister site at http://www.ferriesofsydney with a very activity community forum and on a wider rage, our other sister site Forgotten Sydney (http://www.firgotten Sydney) is all about Sydney’s historical past. Our new Google+ page is at
Recently we introduced some new promotional items and they are in limited quantities so if you want one you’ll need to get in quickly. For the first time we have caps and indeed we had to refresh the order twice to cope with demand! If you want an item, send your details (name and address and what you want) in an email to [email protected]. Prices – Mugs $20 including delivery, key rings $20 including delivery and caps $30 including delivery. A special offer of the PJ&MSS Co mug, cap and keyring can be purchased as a set for $60 for the set.
A fairly quiet week on board this time and work revolved largely around pump maintenance due to two
bilge pumps having decided to cease working – so two new ones were purchased and this gave Ernie the
opportunity to mount them in a far better way than the previously simple method of dropping them in
the bilges. It was quite a big job installing just two and took him (with a couple of helpers) most of the
day but at least there in now in case they are ever needed!
We’ll be adding at least five more (hopefully this weekend coming) – one more each into the Engine
Room, Control Room and Forward Hold (these are our biggest holds and we’d be in trouble if anything
happened in one of those) and one each in the aft and forward peaks – these are small spaces, currently
dry, but it certainly wouldn’t hurt to have pumps in them. The pumps are around $100 each but are a
necessary precaution.
Assuming these are purchased this week we’ll go ahead installing them – as there are so many (five!) to
do - complete with new pipes, flexible tubes etc a couple of extra people to assist would be appreciated
– remember that these pumps (hopefully not needed!) are an essential safety feature on board and
placing backups gives us peace of mind in case of anything untoward ever happening. All this coupled
with the hull work we are doing is slowly but steadily making Baragoola much more secure and is
contributing towards her longevity, BUT! We absolutely need more people to help out with these
critical tasks.
Ernie installing new pumps in the battery compartment – a fiddly spot to work in too
This shot shows the confined space and just how fiddly some areas are to work in
The shaft comes in handy for tying up the pumps to
Ernie also redid the bilge lines in the Control Room – this is an area we will be putting a backup pump
into and this week it received a brand new pump with the old one being relocated to the Battery
Compartment as a backup.
Special thanks to Ernie and his helpers for doing this work – I’m sure he had planned on doing other
things and this ended up dominating his time but it was much appreciated by all.
In other work, Peter H kept up the excellent job he’s been doing in the upstairs accommodation
replacing the rotted out deckhead – he’s nearly completed a whole (large) section that needed replacing
– once done we’ll move the painters in to complete the work and then it’ll be ready for an electrician to
wire in some new lighting – all part of the plan to have this large space available to be hired out so Goola
can generate a cash flow to fund her own restoration.
As can be seen, quite a bit has been replaced and poor Peter was feeling a bit seasick after working
upside down for the day! We are holding off on the painting until he’s completed his bit – after that
we’ll strip back the flaking paint and do the remainder of the work. Both our primary painters are
shorties – one or two tall people would help us out in this area as well as some scaffolding if it could be
donated.
Up in the men’s toilets some work was also progressed with temporary repairs done to the metal
footing in the shower by Glen – this will stop in water running out on to the outside decks (where it
usually then ends up in the hull below). We do need some guys (or girls!) who can do welding so that
this work can be made permanent – we require lots of skill sets aboard and there is always a job that
anyone can do.
Some cosmetic work was done on the forward boat deck this weekend with a little more needle gunning
taking place as well as continuing the work on stripping back the anchor winch. Peter M began the
(rather large) task of stripping back the vent on this deck as well – previously we’d given it a ‘quick and
dirty’ coat of white to improve the appearance – now it is getting the proper job done. There are years
of paint layers here – our white coat, under that was the Brunswick green placed by David, under that is
fire engine red (possibly from her Rozelle days? Would have looked ridiculous), then another layer of
white (likely PTC), a coat of pale blue (PTC?), another coat of white, a coat of pale brown (this matches
the early sixties colour scheme) then an undercoat of red.
This is largely an original piece – the lower section is steel and the cap on top (probably a replacement)
is made of galvanised iron. The whole thing will be treated with a coat of anti-rust paint and then will
receive a couple of coats of white high gloss paint to finish it.
The anchor winch has an absolutely enormous number of coats of paint – in parts there are at least nine
that I’ve counted so far!
Once stripped back, this will receive a coat of anti rust paint (same as has already been applied on part
of it) and will then be painted with the same colour as is on the hull.
Last of all, a second coat of white trim was applied on the wheelhouse.
That’s it for this week, we hope to see a few extras next Saturday to help out with the all the work on board! If you are on Facebook you can follow us at https://www.facebook.com/ManlyFerry We’re also on Twitter as #MVBaragoola – updates are posted fairly regularly. Our main website is now www.baragoola.com.au and if you have Google Talk installed you can chat to us if anyone is online and nearby the computer – add [email protected] as a friend. And, last but not least, we also have a flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/65669741@N08/ For general business you should call our message bank on 02 9294 3168 and leave a message – we’ll return your call pretty quickly as this is checked daily.
