Another Nice Day

The dinghy Saga was originally fitted with a 6 mm steel centreboard which is lowered and raised without a pivot using a pair of rollers and blocks to take the weight. We do not want the weight of the original steel centreboard sitting inside the now fragile hull so we have made up a ply replica which is a lot lighter.

Fitting the new centreboard

Field Trip

The weather continues to be better than average so a few members made an outing to check on some of the historic vessels stored in a separate boat shed in Stromness. On our way back we stopped off at Ian Richardson's Boat Shed to view his latest build. Ian is building an elliptical stern yole in between all the other repair work being undertaken in his shed.

Ordinary Day

Saga's restored helm seat is back in the hull.

The next job for Saga is to replace the centre board. The original centre board is 6.5mm steel which is a bit on the heavy side for an aging hull out of the water so we plan to construct a ply look-a-like which will be a lot lighter.

Interestingly Saga's centre board doesn't have a pivot point, instead it relies on a set of rollers and its position in the centre board case.

Elsewhere in the workshop Venture received undercoat.

Saga gets a new seat

 The padded helm seat for Saga has been stripped, revarnished and reupholstered.

Back to normal service

The sun was out today and there wasn't a lot of wind so a good day to finish the safety fencing. We had some heavy rope in stock which we hung between the posts.

Inside, work continued on stripping old paint off Laverne

and also the Yachting World Catamaran Venture

Quiet Day

Low turn out today but even so Doris got another deck coating.

 

Over in Ian Richardson's shed Falcon is slowly getting her new bottom boards fitted.

Going, going, gone

One boat we have deemed not worth preserving has been disposed of. We do not have sufficient resources to keep everything so some prioritisation based on a points based merit system is required.