Preping for work on Saga

Searching for bits of Saga

With Saga moved away from the main storage shed ready for winter work to begin it was necessary to locate and move all the bits previously removed from Saga. This became a game of find and seek as we search high and low to find all the missing bits. Fortuantely we have a policy of labelling all items removed from a boat so that we can eventually return fittings to their original boat.

Work also continued cleaning out the interior of Linda - the scrapped interior was washed in prepapration for repainting.

Resumption of Workgroup Activities

Linda being scrapped clean

Gabrielle in discussion about the dinghy Linda

OHBS has resumed winter workgroup activies. The first meeting since almost all work stopped in March 2020 was today the 17th September 2021. Stripping of the interior of the dinghy Linda was started. 

Local author and creative practioner Gabrielle Barnby visited to talk to volunteers and see restoration work in progress as part of a commissioned to develop new writing and artwork to mark the centenary of George Mackay Brown funded by Orkney Islands Council.