Siesta Key - 2008 - Work in Progress
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If
you have built castles in the air, your work will
not be lost, that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
They
used to use small children for cleaning chimneys - mine
are used for cutting up tanks in confined spaces and
cutting rusty rigging shackles in the dark. It is good
for them - builds moral fibre. (Before I get the lady
from the Children's Society at the door - they are both
over 20!)
Shame
about all that lovely woodwork but the pilot house
has been leaking for years - got to be fixed. As witnessed
by the soggy bulkhead below the chart table
There
is something about the women I know and wrecking bars
(jemmies) - I must bring out the anger in them!
She
arrived as a working vessel - now she is
a building site. Just got to keep the final
vision in mind!
Out come dem rusty ole water and fuel tanks
To
leave some big spaces inside...
Then
that leaking companionway - Steve you said you did not
rebuild it in your 90's reno - mmm bit of rust.
And all those cockpit lockers - we will copy
the old design but the dreaded rot had spread
a bit.
Just
got a very good price on a load of Brazilian Cedar from
Robbins of Bristol - which isn't really cedar but a
sort of cross between mahogany and cedar - light like
cedar but with grain and colour of mog. Enough to do
the whole of the cockpits in solid wood - it should
look grand Grommit.
Gosh
- got the genny out - and did not even get my hands
dirty
Thanks Simon and Chris, great job
Chris, covering your eyes will not make
it go away - but its OK I think he has seen us
Hey!
How did that get into the site office? - Thanks to Paul
and Dave for keeping an eye on things while we are not
there and oiling all sorts of wheels!
It was time to get that lump of an engine out - thanks
to Chris and Si for stripping it and Dave and Matt for
the lifting (well Dave really!)
.....and then Team Sharpness Shipyard and Drydock (SS&D)
(Steve, Will and Brian) and Dave the Crane for getting
it out
.....those bilges were white when we
left Portugal - hence why we have to do something with
that power train ...... oily bilges just smell so bad.
...Team
SS&D strike again getting the masts off - superbly executed.
including Will on skyhooks and 5 strong guys who finally
overcame the recalcitrant spreader.
I wonder why it is always me that ends up dangling from
the end of the crane
Enter Tony the Blast. In no time (well actually
a few days of hard work) the cockpit and inside the
pilothouse blasted and painted and cleared up. - what
a brilliant improvement ..... although a few minor repairs
needed
Hey
we are on a roll now with improvements - pilothouse
skirt, ground back, painted and sealed - the first stage
of keeping the ogin out.
Just
got a very good price on a load of Brazilian Cedar from
Robbins of Bristol - which isn't really cedar but a
sort of cross between mahogany and cedar - light like
cedar but with grain and colour of mog. Enough to do
the whole of the cockpits in solid wood - it should
look grand Grommit. 
