a sunny sunday :)

I've been doing a bit of demolition :)
the partition at the bottom of the stairs that used to divide the foward cabin is now gone. It feels a lot bigger with the cabin opened up again, it was originally open like this, until the previous owner divided it in 3! The picture is taken from the front of the cabin, looking aft.

Meanwhile dad has been carrying on with the scraping at the stern, and Juan had a rowing lesson in the tender this evening

During the evenings this week I painted the undercoat and topcoat onto the inside of the hull, which dad has been cleaning up over the last few weeks. so we can put the ballast (weights) back into position once the paint has had time to dry.

In the picture you are looking at the stern (back of the boat) from the inside

watching paint dry

I've been painting the transom (the flat bit at the back of the boat) in the first picture it is painted with grey undercoat


Here I am halfway through putting on the first layer of topcoat, this evening I put on the second.


Meanwhile Dad has been working away cleaning up the inside of the hull just forward of transom, ready to paint that as well

We've just replaced another big chunk of wood, a 5 inch square beam that connects the two sides of the boat together. It was quite a struggle to drill the holes for 10 bolts that hold it all together, but we got there in the end.
sorry for the picture, my phone isn't good at seeing in the dark!