We continued work on getting the new storage location ready to receive boats and also be ready to allow restoration activities to recommence. Old storage room locks which have not been used for years and had rusted up have been replaced so we now have secure storage for the more valuable tools. Holes in the outside wall were patched and our new hazardous materials cupboard was moved to a usable location.
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| Secure equipment store |
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| Hole patching |
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| Hazardous materials cupboard |
Work continued on preparing the new storage location. Part of the prep work involves making our part of the location fire safe, other work is to make the location more comfortable. Much work is currently focussed on removing old factory fittings which we do not require or no longer work.
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| Fire Door Signage Fitted |
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| Coat Hooks reinstalled |
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| Coffee Break |
The removal of unwanted equipment and fittings has continued at the new storage facility. While some volunteers removed or moved equipment others worked on trying to reinstate locks and other fittings that had seized up with years of inactivity. Some supplies have been moved from other storage locations but have yet to find a permanent home so are scattered around the floor at present.
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| Materials awaiting a new home |
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| Pipe work being removed |
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| Internal walls removed to open up the space |
The lease on a new storage facility in Stromness at The Old Herring Factory has finally been signed. Work could now begin on removing some of the internal walls which we needed to removed to open up additional storage space.
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.
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| Fettling the new coaming strips |
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| New coaming strips screwed home |
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| New aft coaming strip being fitted |
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.
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| Old & new coaming boards |
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| Tricky joint at the front |
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| Trimming up at the back |
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| Anyone know where the vac is? |
when they get inside a shed is that they leave a mess just about everywhere. Birds have been nesting in one of the sheds in which we have some of our boats stored. Rather than evict the nesting birds we instead left them undisturbed and covered all our boats with thin plastic sheeting. The trailers and other equipment will still need washing off at some point.
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| Some of the mess |
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| Laverne recovered |
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| Laverne recovered |
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| After |