May Day Bank Holiday

 

Moonshine

Since our bank holiday weekend was scheduled to be broken on Saturday into Sunday due to Peter's standby work commitments, a tidal trip this weekend was out of the question.  Therefore, we made another reluctant pilgrimage to South Yorkshire Boat Club to assist Peter's dad with his boat maintainence.

Crambeck

Therefore, on Friday Peter helped his dad slip his Aquastar 33. The jobs required were fresh anti foul, fresh boot topping, repacking the stern glands and a hull polish. Everything was completed on Saturday and she is due to be relaunched Monday morning. Hopefully this 'work horse' should be good for another year in anticipation for a trip to Amble in July. 

Helm Seat

After using Moonshine's newly upholstered helm seat, it was felt that it was a touch on the low side.  Wooden runners were fabricated out of oak to increase the height. This has worked very well. 

 

New clear and white Perspex chart covers

Old clear cracked and black bowed chart covers

This last week we have been busy sourcing new Perspex for the chart area. The old clear chart cover was scratched and cracked, and the black locker lid below was bowed due to it being black and absorbing heat under the windscreen.  Morton Industrial Plastics www.mipuk.com were commissioned for this work. We required an identical clear Perspex cover but wanted to replace the black lid for white to help prevent bowing. The total cost was £35.00 and these were collected personally as this firm is located local to where we live.

New acrylic bathroom mirror

New acrylic vanity mirror

New acrylic mirrors were ordered online through www.theplasticman.co.uk for both the vanity unit and the bathroom as the old ones were also scratched. These cost around £33 for the pair incl delivery.

 

Crazed lens, and blank made

Whilst we were sourcing the mirrors and the chart covers, we decided to further investigate having the lenses replaced on Moonshine's Bomar portlights.  To replace 6 complete portlights would be too expensive, and since only the lenses look unsightly due to star crazing it was only these that needed replacing. Looking for 'off the shelf replacements' proved impossible as we did not know the exact catalogue code for them, along with the fact that these would most certainly have to be imported from abroad.  After months of research we contacted http://boatwindow.co.uk/  who have quoted £110 plus vat and delivery to make all 6 in a grey tint. Moonshine seems to have a combination of the grey and bronze tint portlights, but the grey tinted ones have faired better and have no crazing, perhaps these are newer replacements... we will never know, however these can still be kept as spares.  This company required we send them our lens sample (a blank was made and fitted), which we have done and will contact us again once the work has been completed for payment.  We anticipate a turn around time of 3-4 working days...watch this space!