Wow that brought back some memories, when I was an Apprentice I worked for a toolmaking company opposite Halmatic who built the fibreglass version of the later Aruns, we did a lot of engineering work for them mostly prop shaft and other machining and interestingly all the headless silicon bronze bolts. The headless bolts were bolts with eather a counter sink or square shoulder with totally round heads but no screw driver slots or hexagons so you would have to cut them off if you wanted to remove them as they were impossible to unscrew once fitted into a countersink/bore, why you ask? it was to stop the bronze bolts being removed for scrap value and replaced with steel bolts, not sure if they still do that today but the RNLI must have had a few unscrupulous crews in the past. I used to be friends with the Halmatic engineers and once went over to Gosport to get turned up side down in the roll over commissioning test, that was pretty scary.
Hi there, thanks so much for your comments and all the information. Delighted you enjoyed the tour of this remarkable vessel, which has clearly stood the test of time!
This lifeboat was privately owned and spent many years in Cork harbour Ireland 🇮🇪 before being sold to it’s new owner.
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing that.
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Wow that brought back some memories, when I was an Apprentice I worked for a toolmaking company opposite Halmatic who built the fibreglass version of the later Aruns, we did a lot of engineering work for them mostly prop shaft and other machining and interestingly all the headless silicon bronze bolts.
The headless bolts were bolts with eather a counter sink or square shoulder with totally round heads but no screw driver slots or hexagons so you would have to cut them off if you wanted to remove them as they were impossible to unscrew once fitted into a countersink/bore, why you ask? it was to stop the bronze bolts being removed for scrap value and replaced with steel bolts, not sure if they still do that today but the RNLI must have had a few unscrupulous crews in the past.
I used to be friends with the Halmatic engineers and once went over to Gosport to get turned up side down in the roll over commissioning test, that was pretty scary.
Hi there, thanks so much for your comments and all the information. Delighted you enjoyed the tour of this remarkable vessel, which has clearly stood the test of time!
Very cool. Thanks for sharing this boat instead of the sailboat, LOL
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