Schooner Ixdos – Phuket - Thailand
Cheers ahoy! Look-out ready
Deck-house June 2009
Filler
British International School Community Aid Service
Painter May 2009
Clinic hatch
Hawsepipes
Gas
Clinic
Water tank supports
Engine-room keel hatches
Last steel cut
Finishing touches
Cockpit finished
Becky
BB
Victory!
Legs
Cockpit before
Construction crew
Bulwarks
Bulwark door
Water tank supports
CAS sanding
Poop painting finished
OB's wheel
Go sailors go!
BIS Team hard at work - March 2009
Construction Crew
Engine-room
Engine-room hatches
Cutting steel with a plasma cutter
Engine-room before...
British International School, Phuket - Community Aid Team
Engine room door
For'ard water tank supports
BIS Team
More sanding
Sanding the poop
Last delivery of steel
pv
Stern with hatch
Cockpit
Inside deck-house looking for'ard
Deck-house starboard deck
Deck-house hatch fitted
Deck-house
Deck-house hatch drying
Clinic hatch
Field trip
Clinic bilges

Some jobs completed last year:

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 – N
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 – N
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 – N
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

The Schooner Christian Foundation is a charity with the objective of building a small ship capable of carrying a mobile mother and child health clinic to island peoples lacking such a facility. An additional objective is to carry equipment for drilling for water with the intention of providing sustainable drinking water systems wherever needed.

The Schooner Ixdos is being built by the foundation in Phuket and has been designed as a sailing ship with an auxiliary engine. In the forward section, space has been allocated for a clinic with overhead access to allow stretcher cases to be lowered. 6 double cabins will accommodate a professional team to crew the ship and staff the clinic.

Building was originally funded privately. After the Asian tsunami the need became quite apparent and donations were accepted in order to speed up construction. The ship is now more than half built and funds are sought in order to finish building and to become operational.

Clinic

Clinic Hatch

Thanks to the kind and continued support of the Brothers of St Andrew, All Saints Watsonville, California, our friends from California and New York, the PTA of the British International School, Phuket, the parents of children I teach in Phuket, and brothers and sisters from the House of the Lord, Phuket, we have managed to work steadily through the summer holidays and have made significant progress. Especial thanks to Dan Letton who came for his summer holiday and worked relentlessly to provide us with flooring in the bilges to enable us to carry medical stores, general stores, and anchor cable. We are now gearing up to order the last delivery of steel so that we can complete our engine room and install the engine. We are ready to make stainless steel water tanks. We have prepared the poop and await funds to buy paint.

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

Schooner Ixdos – January 2009

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