Friday, 23 September 2022

New Coaming Fitted

Today the new coaming strips received their final fettling and were screwed in place using new Silicon Bronze dome headed screws. The aft coaming strip is still being worked on and will be fitted next. The top edge of the new coaming is currently rough cut and will require planing smooth and routing off to a soft round top edge.

Fettling the new coaming strips
New coaming strips screwed home
New aft coaming strip being fitted

Friday, 16 September 2022

That's summer over with

With many volunteers otherwise occupied over the summer months and a delay in accessing our new storage facility restoration work has been minimal for a while. Summer is now pretty over for most people so OHBS activities are picking up once again. While we await access to our new storage facility some work has continued at Ian Richardson's yard in Stromness. 

Work has resumed on Saga with the main effort now focused on fitting new coaming boards. The old coaming boards were deemed too badly worn once they had been cleaned up.

Old & new coaming boards

Tricky joint at the front

Trimming up at the back
The old coaming boards were used on the inside of the new coaming boards during the fit up so that the clamps didn't mark the new boards.

Anyone know where the vac is?