confidence question ?

[silverclaws]

Nope,

but I hear the Kathleen and May three mast topsail Schooner might be coming back, that used to be alongside for years in front of The Three Crowns.


http://www.everythingexmoor.org.uk/...nts-list/44-k/583-kathlyn-a-may-schooner.html

But there are things afoot, but one thing is certain, what with Plymouth's maritime heritage, do you not think it odd that Plymouth does not have a maritime museum ?

 

[sgw]

Sounds good SC. A good idea to have many irons in the fire. (especially for a blacksmith ). Can be troublesome time management though with too many different demands. Everyone will want prompt attention when they need it and you can only be in one place at a time.

If you need of a shipwright give me a shout. I am a bit out of practise but still have most of my tools. A bit smaller stuff than I am used to as we mostly built stern trawlers. We did also build the Winston Churchill sail training schooner though.

 

[cyfa2809]

when was that ship there?? probably too young to remember

aye i agree, but do you not think the whole harbour is kind of like a museum?

 

[The Ken]

SC self employment isn't for everyone, I tried it for a year when I was younger and single, some clients were great to work for & paid reasonably promptly, other were a nightmare, financially I had no backing other than small personal savings and in a period of no work and over 3 month late payments I had to sign on to pay my rent, as a result I gave it up and became an employee with my main contractor a month later (yes the one that paid late).

I know loads of people that are successful though, initial finance helps greatly.

 

[silverclaws]

when was that ship there?? probably too young to remember

aye i agree, but do you not think the whole harbour is kind of like a museum?

Kathlyn and May was here must be in the 1970's, I'm 44 and went on it as a kid and it was here for a good few years.

Plymouth also had that bucket the Golden Hinde replica for a while out in Millbay, you know, the one that is across the road from the chippy in Brixton at the moment full of holes below the water line.

Sutton harbour was better before it got turned into a marina for the south eastern lot to moor their plastic cheaply. I liked it when the fish market was there, not over the water in Coxside. The barbican was interesting also then, useful shopping not the over abundance of wine bars and galleries as there is now, though the hidden barbican is behind the main streets, like a rabbit warren in there. An old place is the Barbican.

Am currently involved with an alternative proposal to stop Millbay becoming yet another part of the plastic water front.

 

[silverclaws]

But as to the work drying up prospect, the plan I have is to sign on for temp work, basically do anything to stay self employed, if I can get the confidence together to take the plunge.

But I have a plan and am sorting finances out at the moment, will have about 4k to kick off with, my compo from the criminal injuries stuff, my money, so it will be spent frugaly and with much thought, as unemployment has taught me one very important thing, how to be frugal with money, exist as cheaply as possible, only dig hand in pocket if one really has to and there is no other option.

I have many of my own tools already, (although I have lost 7k worth of snap on tools including all my diagnostic, calibration equipment and machine literature, but I have the internet now) and I been collecting broken tools to repair over the last few years. The other stuff I need, I will get second hand, broken or whatever and I will repair and adapt where necessary