Winter is coming

With winter on the way we have are moving boats around so that the more vulnerable boats are stored under cover.

Cingalee been moved under cover

Cingalee inside

Bulldog being moved to the Old Herring Factory

Waterwitch & Cingalee inside

Boat Manoeuvres

In between rain showers we swapped boats between trailers and got several boats ready for moving to another location for winter storage.

Lagertha off her trailer

Waterwitch on the wrong trailer

Cingalee on her trailer

3 Steps Forwards and 1 Step Backwards

Saga has received her first coat 'sealing' coat of varnish. This coat will be lightly sanded back before subsequent coats are applied.

The interior of Doris has pretty much been finished, some deck work remains to be completed.

Work has started on cleaning out the inside of Laverne.

Cingalee has been put back on a trailer ready for moving back inside as her paint work is suffering having been outside for well over a year now. Her paint work will require some work when we have time.

Field Trip

A field trip out to Herston & Kirkwall with the big trailer to pickup some old spars and floor boards.

Sorting out what to keep and what not in an old Northern Lighthouse Board building.

Looking Back

Many other things are going on in Orkney during the summer months so less time is available to work on boats. A few photo's from 2017 of the Otter Bank, more details here. The restored Otter Bank was on display in an old Romney Hut at Lyness, Hoy until the Lyness Museum closed for refurbishment in late 2017. The Otter Bank has been in storage ever since. 

Locked Out!

Being the summer some of the regular volunteers are sometimes away on vacation or just out for a sail around the islands. This was the case last week for this blogger. This week - we have been locked out of one of the storage sheds we still have boats in. This happens from time-to-time when one of the other parties we shared the shed with forget to lock the separate padlocks in a chain and instead lock the two ends of the chain together. It will get sorted.

Painting continues on parts of Doris.

and when not working some of the team get together for chat over coffee.

Not all our work is on boats

The restoration of 3 tonne lifting gantry is complete and the rebuilt gantry has now been lifted onto its wheels.

We also completed maintenance work on one of the boats trailers which required a strap replacing.

The larch wood log delivered a couple of weeks ago have been moved to a more convenient position at the side of the storage shed.

Today there was some discussion on what and how further work on some of the boats should progress.

and a little painting was fitted in.