Saga Green

The interior of Saga has been touched up and is now finished. The next job will be the fitting of the new plywood decking. Work will start on the fitting the new deck in a week or two after the work crew have finished a couple of small jobs on other boats also under going restoration.

Linda is looking smarter

 

The dinghy Linda is getting under underside painted in a smart light blue. Her oars are also getting the same colour.

At another location the painting of the inside of Saga has pretty much been completed. The missing deck support on the stern board has also been replaced and just needs a little fairing off to finish up the deck support work.

Happy New Year

Volunteers started 2022 by continuing with painting the interior of Saga. The work on the replacement deck spars is pretty much complete but we won't start to apply the new decking until painting of the interior has been finished - it's just easier to paint the inside without the deck in place.

The rot in the stern post had already been scrapped out. Since Saga is being restored for display, and not to go sailing, we filled the voids in the stern post, where the rotten wood had been removed, with filler. If Saga was to go sailing again we would have probably have had to replace the entire stern post.

 

Meanwhile at the front of the boat a team was replacing the spacers between the deck spars.

New Colour

Following a couple of coats of undercoat the green top coat is now being applied. It's easier to paint the inside before the new deck is fixed on.

 

 

Meanwhile work continues on the new foredeck spars:

...and replacing the missing sternboard section of support:

Storm Arwen + 1 week

Last week we didn't do any restoration work as several volunteers were otherwise occupied with weather related issues. Now that the weather has clamed down again normal service is resumed.

 

Planning session

Painting and working on replacement deck spars

Port side deck spars fixed up

Foredeck spars fixed in position

Moving on

 

On Saga, work has moved on to replace the missing sternboard deck mounting beam, part of which had been cut-out to allow an outboard motor to be stern mounted. Work is also progressing on stiffening up the port side deck beams and the foredeck arches.

Saga - sternboard

 

 

Saga being painted - grey!

Being short of working space we are working on several boats in different locations. In another shed painting continues on the dinghy Linda.

Linda being painted