Sunshine

A new latch lever has been made for the large bandsaw to replace one that was missing. This means we can now properly latch the motor compartment.

A new blade was fitted to our smaller bandsaw.

Outside the WW2 lifeboat AKL has collected some rain water, we will pump this our next week.

Busy Day

Progress is being made with the installation of Nellie's boiler and steam engine

The refurbished large bandsaw has a new blade installed which has made its first cut.

The Groat dinghy restoration continues with lots of new larch wood being used.

Work has started on the restoration of Venture's dagger boards.

Still cold

We have a new blade for the large bandsaw and are thinking about what we can do with the top & bottom guide assemblies. The problem is that the saw was built to imperial measurements in the 1950/60s and contemporary replacement components are all metric or very expensive.

Work has started on refitting the rudders and dagger boards to the Yachting World Catamaran Venture.

Snow today

Still cold, windy and a little flurry of snow today. The large bandsaw is getting put back together. Today the contactor was replaced with new wiring and tested. The motor runs up fine and the brake system works well. We now need to replace the cutting blade.

With most of the work on the hull of Venture now complete we have dug out the dagger boards and rudders for refurbishment.

Elsewhere work continues on the Groat dinghy.