Change of location

Instead of one group working on Saga in one shed and another group working in another shed we all got together to work in one place for a change. This allowed us to make some progress with fitting of a new thaft to Linda and some sucking of teeth about the fitting of a new thaft to Waterlily.

Fitting a new thaft to Linda

A partly fitted new thaft on Linda

It's the Sailing Season...

With the arrival of the sailing season several OHBS volunteers have been occupied getting their boats ready for the season which has meant an interruption to restoration activities. However, we managed to restart work today both on Saga and cleaning & painting work at the Ness site.

Removing broken screws on Saga

 

After cutting out a number of broken screws from the deck framing and plugging the holes we test fitted the original coaming to see how things were shaping up. Not too good. Something has changed shape (not unusual) and the original coaming boards no longer fitted snugly, we had 10mm gaps in a couple of places so onto plan B = fit new coaming boards.

Test fitting the original coaming boards