Winter is coming

When the weather worsens as winter approaches more volunteers head for inside working. A variety of jobs are in progress at present. An old table saw is being stripped down and rebuilt, White Wings has been turned over so that work can progress on the underside, Ruby has been deep cleaned and the wood repairs on Shamrock make further progress.

White Wings

Ruby

Shamrock

Rain & Shine

We had a good deal of heavy rain, lightening & thunder for a time during the last week however all the boats we recovered the previous week all survived with no pooling on the canvas cover.

Falcon under cover

Inside painting has continued on White Wings with a top coat being applied to some areas.

White Wings

With fine weather once again returned the opportunity was taken to wash & treat with Milton's fluid some of the sails in our collection.

Esmeralda cleaned & re-covered

After being left open to the elements for a week (during which we had a lot of rain) Esmeralda was given a gentle pressure wash to remove the last of the bird muck. Her cover was also washed off and dried out. Not having a drain hole nor a working bilge pump we used an external pump to suck the collected water out from inside.

Cleaning Esmeralda

Drying Esmeralda's cover

Esmeralda drying out before being recovered

Elsewhere another team worked on a cover for Falcon. She also had no drain hole so we wanted to cover her to prevent her filling up with water.

Setting a ridge pole for Falcon

With a bit of time left before lunch we also diagnosed and fixed a problem with one of the machine tools.