No Going Back

On Friday morning I received my lovely iphone 6 so I just had to take a few photos to show how impressed I am with it.



Forward Cabin Door being stripped

 

Peter had visited Moonshine earlier on in the week and removed the forward and mid cabin doors, as these are easier to strip and re varnish at home.

Cabin doors ready to be varnished

The aim at the moment is to focus on the saloon area, and take home any loose woodwork ie cupboard doors and anything that can be removed without being damaged. Any woodwork that has suffered over the years is being stripped back to bare wood and will be re varnished with a minimum of 6 coats.
Therefore my conservatory is out of bounds for the foreseeable future.




Galley woodwork being stripped

Today Peter applied the paint stripper to the fixed galley woodwork. This takes about half an hour to work its magic and then it is easily removed using a scraper.



Toilet door removed

 

 

The curved toilet door was also removed and brought home for the same treatment, and since Peter has the week off work he will be doing the same with the door frames. Its a bit laborious, but in a few weeks time the saloon should look brilliant.

Forward Cabin door removed



However, as you can probably see from the photo, the leather sofa is in need of restoration. Therefore, we have decided to leave the LED lighting until the following month and use those allocated funds for having someone re spray and re lacquer the leather upholstery. Hopefully this shouldn't be too expensive, and we will look into this within the next few days.



 

 




Mid ships and toilet door removed

 

We have also been in touch with Chris Potts at Burton Waters for him to make a new canopy and also quote us for the cockpit upholstery. The cockpit upholstery is ok at the moment but since we are having a new canopy made it just makes sense to do the whole job lot, as half the battle of having these type of jobs done is getting someone out to do it and visit you on site.






1st Coat of varnish

With any luck we should have the saloon reassembled for the first weekend in October, ready for our next tidal trip to Hull Fair.