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This weekend, I demolished the shower and removed the toilet as well as it's plumbing. you can see an unpainted square on the grey floor where the toilet was!
Dad came and gave me a hand, scraping away a lot of the old paint that had been hidden.

demolition

Now I've painted the inside of the hull on the starboard side, it's time to sport out the port side, which means the demolition of the old heads and galley, to gain acess to the hull behind. It seems a little extreme, but unfortunately nobody has cleaned or painted these bits of the boat for since the last century.

Here is the toilet, with the with the surrounding woodwork removed, on the right the hull is freshly painted, and to the left is the next part to be sorted out.

This week we've been painting during the evenings, The woodwork we cleaned up over the last few weeks is now primed and undercoated, which makes the inside of Mudlark look a lot cleaner :)

scraping and painting

We've just painted the next section of the inside of the boat with primer.
Over the last few weeks we've all had a go at cleaning it up, and I spent most of yesterday fixing the bits of woodwork that needed attention.

Here's Juan painting the fiddly bits, whilst I spread paint everywhere else with a roller! All the woodwork to his right is now painted white :)

back on an even keel

I've been a bit lazy with the updates recently, here's a summary of what we've done
I've fitted one of the new pair of water tanks, the picture shows the freshly painted frame in which it is now sitting. Mudlark had one large tank (200 gallon) on the starboard side, so she lent one to one side with it full, and the other with it empty!
I've had two tanks made, one for each side so she will be better balanced


We've given the aft cabin a clean, and I've scraped and painted the underside of the deck. which will stop the flakes of paint falling in the bunk below :)

Dad has been scraping away at the next section of the forward cabin, I tried to get an action shot, but the light was poor.

Happy new year :)

Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas :)
I invited my My parents and a couple of friends to have dinner on-board Mudlark
My mother did most of the cooking, so I've had a relaxing day :)
Here we are sat round the table

mince pies

This weekend I've been mostly eating mince pies :)
I invited friends over for mulled wine and mince pies, as well as the grand tour
Tom and Fi gave me a hand to tidy the tools away, and put a new cover over the stern, the old one has far too many holes which let the rain pass straight through it!
I've moved the "workshop" into the front cabin so we can lift the floor boards and clean the next section of the bilges