The 150 year old North Isles Yole Waterlily is being displayed at Stromness Shopping Week this week so its quiet at the Old Herring Factory. Here are some pictures of work in progress currently in the Old Herring Factory:
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| White Wings |
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| Laverne |
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| Laverne |
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| Grieve Dinghy |
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| Paint Bench |
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| Tern |
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| Doris |
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| Venture |
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| Nellie - Steam Engine |
This week Orkney hosts the 20th International Island Games and many OHBS volunteers are away helping at various sports events.
Today was boat moving day (in the rain). First we had to move some boats to make some working room. Next we used our new stacking frames to store some of the smaller boats on top of boats stored below. We now have a number of double stacked boats which saves floor space.
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| Double stacking some of the smaller boats |
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| Working out a plan |
The steam engine from the steam launch Nellie has been cleaned up and re-painted.
Paint work on the Yachting World catamaran Venture continues.
Outside clean up work on Nellie's steam boiler has been started.
Saga painting is almost complete. The boom now requires stripping and revarnishing and there are some more fittings to be reinstalled including the rudder mounts.
The OHBS sign board by the entrance door has been given a clean up, re-oil and varnish.
Inside re-painting of the stripped upper boards and stern board of Saga has been started.
Work on Laverne continues.
We are preparing Saga by sanding off the top planks ready for paint to be applied. These planks have been painted once but we needed to strip them back when fixing the new rubbing strake to the boat.
Stripping of old paint continues on Laverne.
Elsewhere we are thinking about what to do next...
We had several visitors today.
After a tour they joined us for coffee.
The hardwood runners on which Saga's centreboard rollers ran have now been reinstalled. Next we will reattach the mechanism used to raise the centreboard.
Outside the rings used to support the heavy duty rope of our safety fence have been painted as they were rusting.
The Yachting World catamaran Venture is now getting painted with a top coat.
