As part of Stromness Shopping Week, OHBS will be displaying a few boats at the Old Lighthouse Pier in Stromness. Today the boats to be displayed were moved from the Old Herring Factory to the Old Lighthouse Pier and placed inside a large shed on the pier. Some boats will be moved outside and rigged if the weather permits.
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| Lagertha outside at the Old Lighthouse Pier |
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| Laverne inside at the Old Lighthouse Pier |
Work has started on fitting a new big boat door in one end of the Stromness storage facility. Without the big boat door we have not been able to get the larger boats into the storage facility - only those boats that could be fitted through a loading bay door could be got into the building. In addition to the fitting of a large roller door a ramp has to be constructed externally to enable vehicle access to the new door as the ground outside was a metre or so below door level.
A 90 year old lady visited OHBS today to see the old naval launch Nellie which was once owned by her family. As a young girl aged 9-10 in the early 1940's she used to crew on the boat to assist with steering if the engine faltered as it did sometimes.
Back at the Old Herring Factory we had to remove a tarpaulin from one boat because it was acting as a giant rain catcher. The boat will now be left uncovered for a while.
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| Tarp drying in the sunshine |
After several years in a farm shed and despite being covered the birds have managed to get under the cover over Laverne and have left their marks. A low pressure wash removed most of the offending material. Cingalee and Falcon have been moved from their old storage location to the new storage facility in Stromness. Cingalee was blocked off so that her trailer could be used to then move Nellie into a more accessible position in her storage shed.
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| Laverne getting a washdown |
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| Cingalee ready to be moved. Bay of Ireland behind. |
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| Blocking off Cingalee |
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| Falcon coming out of the shed + film crew! |
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| Preparing to move Nellie |
When we moved in we inherited a pile of rubbish which had been left in the compound. This rubbish had been left in the way of what will become the approach ramp for the new boat door so needed to be moved. A big trailer and a small team of volunteers sorted and removed the rubbish to the local recycling/rubbish centre.
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| Part way through the clearup |
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| Rubbish all cleared |