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Progress
during 2005
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April Monday
25th Tuesday 26th April After acupuncture in the morning applied a second coat of varnish to the first prepared area. Election Day. After voting I cut out some plugs for the holes in the bulkheads and beams. Also modified to broken plug cutting tools to make clean holes in beams for plugging. Made and fitted the small piece of trim between the cabin side and toilet compartment. Checked which bits needed securing - trim on aft side of chart table. Sue filled the cabin roof ready for painting. Put first coat of varnish, 10% diluted, on the starboard side, all except the front toilet door pillar, i.e. cabin side, units, doors, all bulkheads and remaining beams. Measured tops for lino type covering whilst we are using it as a caravan. Put Marie and Steven's cleaner in the skip and also most of he items in the cockpit, which we also cleaned. We removed the sink unit top and temporary cooker, the one we'd used for camping in the early seventies, to bring home. Put the second coat of varnish on he starboard side, also putting the first coat of varnish on the forward toilet door support. Screwed all the floor bits together by using strips of plywood and measured up, as accurately as possible the correct shape and also the shape of the taper, put up to fifty millimetres on the the floor flat area all round. Removed and packed into the car for taking home. Put top coat of silk varnish on the remaining toilet door pillar. Removed the front cover from the outside
of the boat and rolled back the rear, what was left of the new cover,
back to reveal the fore part and most of the cabin.
The boat was getting too hot and dry under the cover, the wood
was splitting in the cockpit - still unpainted. It was a lovely sunny day but biting cold, which we noticed now most of the cover had been removed. |
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The lamp and cooker are temporary, rigged up so that we can use it as a caravan for the summer |
Wednesday
11th May Cleaned up the sink surround and applied two, or perhaps three, coats of Teak Sealer. Made new cooker supports, to lower it into the space more. Sorted out some bits of carpet in the attic. We also looked round Todds to look at their batteries and chargers. E-mailed Steve with our findings. Sue cleaned the stainless steel sink and cooker. Dismantled anglepoise lamp and made a stand so that it would shine on the ceiling and provide indirect lighting. Made extra floor and fixed it to companionway lower bulkhead, just screwed it into place. After fitting cabin sole it seemed to be too low. Fitted floor, almost a good fit, and carpet - looks very posh. Continued to empty boat and make it more serviceable and easier to work on. Temporarily fitted carpet to sides of Jaja's bunk and main cabin bunk. |
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 Cleaned up the scrap piece of wood that we'd used to keep Jaja in his bunk, varnished and glued a bit of carpet on. |
Saturday
14th May 'Surveyed' Sulako's electrics,
not much to see really although battery charger didn't look like any
of the ones in Todd's. Took pictures. Sunday
15th May Left early and worked tidying up the garage at home. Decided that the next job would be to
get the mast varnish repaired and get the mast up out of Sue's way and to make it easier to board and work on cockpit. Tuesday
17th May |
 Needed to measure this up to design our panel which would be a longer single row to fit into space available |
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Wednesday
13th July My
back was bad, from the lifting? Dennis and Dave Holden helped me lift
the dinghy down. I didn't do much else. Bolted the shroud bases into
place, folded up all the bits of rope for the tarpaulins and tidied
up a bit round the boat. Saturday 16th July Yesterday the dreaded infections had started again! Went up to put the final coat of varnish on the repaired bits |
 Typical photo of the many ropes and wires today, just as we'd left them on the mast when we took it down in 1997 |
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Thursday
21st July We assembled the support that I'd prepared the day before and lashed it to the boat. With the help of Dennis, Norman and Wilf we got the mast on to the support. End of phase 1. I sealed the tops of the metal ring with brown sealer, to keep the rain out. I then fitted the roller reefing forestay, a halyard to the top of the mast and an old polythene milk bottle over the top of the mast to keep the rain out of the grain - picture on the left. Phase 2, getting the mast on to the boat - right. Norman, Dennis and Wilf helping. Right again Wilf and me trying to get the bolt into the tabernacle and mast. Phase 3, getting the mast off the support because I needed the two spars to make the A frame - right. Doug, looking all posh, has joined in now as has Alan. Jaja, eager to help as ever, taking the screws out of the support, with Norman's help of course. Then sorting out all the rigging and fixing it into place where possible. Phase 4, the mast going up at last, left and right. Alan helping me with the A frame, Dave and Steve pushing with the ladder and on the ground Norman an Dennis pulling he mast down, sorry keeping it stable with Mick looking on. Wilf struggling to get the bolt into place, Alan's supporting the mast. Finally, bottom left, everything in place and a job well done. |
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31st July We had a good day though although there wasn't much to show. We started on the starboard coaming. Sanded it down and plugged all the 9.5 mm holes, still some large ones to do. Saturday 6th August Cleaned up and plugged the inside back board. Screwed and epoxied in the top step, should have done this long ago. It was a tight fit when I made it but it's shrunk by 4 mm in width. I couldn't epoxy the washboard outer retainers until I'd fixed the top step and the port cockpit seat top ecause the yovelapped. I cut a piece out of the seat top to allow me to glue the retainers in so that I didn't need to fix the seat top in place. Need it to be loose so that I can fit engine controls and check fuel tank filler when I put diesel in. Screwed and epoxied washboard retainners in place. Plugged these screws on inside of cabin. Sunday 7th August Monday 8th August We both stayed up overnight. Sue hadn't been well over the weekend - bronchitis coming on? Tuesday 9th August Sanded to pstep and starboard cockpit seat. Countersunck all visible screws on cockpit well sides and filled them, decided plugs wa a bit over the top for this area - it would have been hard to do a good job. The bilge well had had water in it since the new sheet blew away and I left the boat for a month unsheeted. Ther was a bucket an half full ! Can't get seem to getround to these jobs, this one should have been done in January ! Checked measurements of hole at back of cockpit to see if pattern at home for closing bulkhead was still relevant. Also measure size of closing strips for washboards. Wednesday 10th August Thursday 11th August Sanded reamining parts of cockpit well. Cut the washboard closing strips down to size. We'd planned to put the first coat of varnish on but it wasn't to be. Friday 12th August I got the port cockpit seat out of the cabin, placed there to avoid theft and rain, and sanded it down and put it back in place. As I was doing this Sue ws emptying the port cockpit locker. Sue started to fit masking tape to this when she got the telephone call. Wet sanded the epoxied cockpit wood and applied first coat of varnish - International Goldspar. All done bfore lunch but lunch was late, 1400 hours. Applied two coats of West epoxy to cockpit well. Epoxied closing strips to washboards. Was going to treat the iroko bits but decided not to do it yet. I was completely washed out so didn't go into clubhouse, got straight into bed. |
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Saturday
13th August It wa a miserable day so continued to work fully sheeted up, well the remaining piece of sheet. Applied the second coat of varnish and spent an anxious period trying to keep the rain off it. the wind was blowing the rain in from the front and the sheet leaked in places. Wet sanded cockpit well and applied it's first coat of varnish. Rain had stopped by now and the day was improving. Sue, Alex and David not due till about 1500 hours. They arrived about 1600 hours, accident on M6 so they'd struggled through traffic on the old roads. John, David's friend form school came with them. They all had a thoroughy enjoyable day. Alex & John came for a sail in the GP14. It was a bit windy hence the reef and no foresail. Sue came back and stayed the night with me. |
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14th August Put two coats of epoxy on the outside surfaces of the washboards. Varniished the well - second coat. Applied third and final coat of varnish to the coamings etc. Very disappointed. the seond coat was smooth and had a high gloss. It was hotter today and the varnish dried to quick for me to work it and the finish was uneven and didn't have the depth of gloss of the second coat. Monday 15th August Cleaned up the gaps, masked the iroko and tried to fill the gaps with sealer. Am now waiting to see if it goes hard and can be sanded level and smooth? |
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Tuesday
16th August Put final coat of varnish on cockpit well. Put first coat of varnish on washboards. (In the picture the bits of black bag are to stop the partly dried varnish from 'gluing' the washboards to the boat.) Put two coats of 'Teak Wonder' on all the iroko. |
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Friday
19th August Saturday 20th August Sunday 21st August On Thursday sailed with David Booth in Toggenberg from Parbold to Rufford, helped with locks. Saturday and Sunday sailed with Norman in Rice Pudding in GSC Regatta. August 23rd - 25th we entertained niece Nici with her two children
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Saturday September 3rd to Friday September
16th we preserved the underside of the hull from osmosis, hopefully.
The boat has been out of the water for at least nine years so it seemed
stupid not to do it as it will probably never be as dry again. Alex Ratcliffe was a big help in removing most of the old antifouling and paint etc. last summer. First we had to strip off the remaining 'hard to get at' bits. The iron 'shoe', which protects the bottom of the GRP keel, was quite severely pitted and all the loose rust had to be removed with hammer, chisel and wire brushes. You can see this in both pictures on the left. I did this and Sue painted it all with Jenolite to cure the rust, then applied a coat of epoxy metal primer. This took three days! The remaining bits of paint etc. had to be removed from the bottom of the keel, see photo for typical position and where the hull was 'wedged'. Plus a few gel coat repairs. We put the first coat of Gelshield on on Sunday 11th, green. A grey and then green coat on Monday, followed by two more on Tuesday. Then the final grey coat on Wednesday - six in all! It rained on Thursday but we got the antifouling on on Friday, Norman took the photo of us doing the antifouling, we'd done the starboard side and were completing the port side. |
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Sunday 18th September pause
for thought. What needs doing yet? |
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| Monday 19th September
started on resealing fore hatch, epoxy, and cleaning deck. Rained off for rest of week, and the weekend - it was very windy too! Monday 3rd October Sometime between the end of September and today we must have finished sealing the hatch and preparing the deck for painting. Checked with International that it was OK to use the leftovers from the Gelshield as a primer coat on the deck. Applied one coat of Gelshield, with a brush this time, still hard but managed OK. Tuesday 4th October first coat of epoxy paint. I'd bought some of Sandra years ago and then they gave me some more a couple of years ago. Would it still be OK? Yes it was great and easy to apply, much easier than the Gelshield. Surprised how little it needed Wednesday 5th October applied 2nd coat of epoxy paint. Should I put six coats on like the hull? I've got plenty of paint left but no enthusiasm. Will I regret not doing it later on? |
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