I bought this Norman last year down in Gloucester, at what I considered to be a very fair price,from a lovely fella called Cliff. I bought a trailer( there expensive aren't they?!)and dragged it up to the Lake District where we live. Cliff "re designed" the interior to suit his needs, basically he got a jig saw and cut EVERYTHING out, and he didn't save any bit's for templates!. After a mishap with the canopy(jumped on from a great height, and smashed the support frame..) I had to sheet it up for the winter to keep the rain out, it leaked! and consequently ended up 2ft deep in water. I see other people have put pictorial progress of their Norman refurbs on here and some of the ideas have been very helpful to me so I thought that I would do the same. They show where I am up to at present. Trying to match the panels to the boat profile has been a bit of a mare, cutting bits of cardboard out and much cursing especially when I saw the cost of 3/4in marine ply...ouch. Any way if anyone is interested I will update as thing go along and hopefully show a finished product, its going onto the Lancaster canal eventually so Merlin maybe we will pass one another before the summer is out.
Hi John the pictures are very inspiring and I would love to see more. we were lucky as our 23 only needed cosmetic work but seeing your work has still given me some ideas for improvement and also helps understand what is under the internal cladding of our boat keep up the good work and here's wishing the best of luck in your project.
Norman 23 Refurb
Posted - 13 Jun 2013 : 11:20:48
