It's getting colder

A set of shelves was rescued from the local fireworks bonfire by some observant volunteers. The shelves need a little fixing up but will be a valuable addition in one of our storage rooms.

Inside and out of the weather cleaning up of the inside of Esmeralda continues and paint work on Nellie and Doris.

While we label parts taken off boats, not all the parts taken off a boat always end up in the same place so some time has been spent locating and consolidating various parts into label baskets.

Working on Boats

This week we received a generous donation of tools from the Black Country = Dudley in the midlands. Being a nice day work started outside with stripping of Nellie's rudder and old varnish off Venture.

Nellie's rudder

Venture

Inside Saga's third coat of varnish on the new deck is now cured.

Not sure what is going on here...

After all that work tea break

Sorting out wood

With some decent weather we used the opportunity to sort through the sawn larch planks we have stored outside. As well as separating the planks into 'thick' and 'thin' piles we swept off all the sawdust stuck to them from when the sawmill cut them.

and all sorted ready for the winter

Inside Saga has had her cap shroud chain plates replaced but not yet bolted into position. Also her deck was sanded back for a third coat of varnish.

Work was started on stripping all fittings off Venture so that we can see what restoration work needs to be undertaken.

The internals of Doris have received a topcoat.

Maintenance & More Boat Moves

As well have working on boats we also have to maintain their supporting infrastructure. This week we serviced all the trailer lightboards we have. This involved checking all the lights were working and making sure all cables were properly anchored.

Two more boats were moved and covered ready for the winter. Esmerelda being prepared for towing:

Boats ready for the winter

Housekeeping

The catamaran Venture has been moved to the Old Herring Factory in preparation for some restoration work. With Venture moved we could tidy up our second storage location to allow some boats in preservation mode to be moved out of the Old Herring Factory.

Venture

Tidy up complete

Falcon moves

Falcon has finally been moved to Ian Richardson's yard so that he can instruct a group of volunteers on how to go about making and attaching several missing planks.

While at Ian's yard we inspected Ian's latest project - an elliptical stern yole

Back at the Old Herring Factory Nellie's steam boiler arrived, being rather heavy it has been left in the compound but covered.

Boat Moves & Varnish

With the help of a Hiab Loader Lorry we moved some boats today. Lagertha was moved within the compound. AKL was moved from Ness to the Old Herring Factory, then Shownia followed.

Moving Lagertha

AKL arriving at the Old Herring Factory

Shownia arriving at the Old Herring Factory

Inside Saga was treated to a further coat of varnish.

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