mudlarking properly

Dad suggested it would be a good idea to change the anode, it did indeed need changing, look at the new and old ones in the photo...


However, this did involve me spending and hour and a half messing round in the mud under the stern, lying on the liferaft. I think Juan found the sight of my legs sticking out from under the boat quite amusing, though he didn't get a picture :(
The corroded anode is the one I fitted last april (there's pictures of it if you dig back through the blog.

chipping away

Dad has joined us for the weekend, last weekend he removed the planks from the aft deck, and this weekend he's started cleaning out the mess they concealed. I think it will keep us busy for a while!


Meanwhile I've been working in the foward cabin, replacing the timber below the windows. In this picture I've offered it up to mark where to cut

windows

I took a break from the woodwork, and replaced the cracked glass in the window above the new timber on the port side. Luckily the window frames at the bow are in better condition, so I managed to re-use the original fittings.
Dad has been working on the aft deck, removing the old planking, so we can sort out the woodwork below
One new window, the cover gives everything a surreal green tint!

We've had a busy weekend, Dad's been working on the aft deck, removing the tired old planks. We've also just re-fitted the renovated guard rail to the port side, unfortunately it's too dark to take a picture now!
I've been fitting new timber on the port side of the foward cabin, here's a pic of the latest piece of the jigsaw

We've taken a break from the painting to do some woodwork. This weekend we replaced one of the beams that supports the deck on the port side.
It had been hidden behind the toilet and shower until I demolished the "bathroom"
last month

I've just painted another section of the inside of the hull :)
Here's the port side in primer:


We've also started cleaning up the next section of bilges, I'm going to be playing hopscotch with the ballast!

scraping along

Here's another picture of the inside of mudlark!

we've been working on the port side, scraping off the old paint, and doing some woodwork. I've had to replace a rib, (middle of the picture) in the picture i've cut away the old wood, now it's been replace with iroko