Busy week ahead at the boatyard

 Busy week ahead with a number of projects all needing to have work done on them. The major work on the Morgan Giles 30 is to get the deck prepared to have the holes filled which happened when the old deck covering was removed and in places damaged the deck surface. Other places where whole areas had to be build up to the original level of the supporting deck, such an area was the foredeck where a whole section was lower than the supporting deck. It appears that there was to be a foredeck chain locker hatch in the foredeck which ever got cut out and a foredeck chain locker hatch lid fitted. It was filled in for years with a piece of marine plywood which over the years had been damaged and in place had gone rotten. So the present owner asked if this area could be filled in and leveled up to the rest of the surrounding deck, so that the deck would look as if there had never been a hatch in that position in the first place.

So there is going to be a lot of filling and fairing on the deck so that the deck looks flush and fair and then it will be painted with an non slip deck covering towards the end of the refit.

The other job on the superstructure is going to be preparing the cabin sides and the cabin roof.

The speed boat as now been painted with its first coat of blue gloss and now will be put back on its trailer, now that the trailer as been repaired and repainted. The trailer just needs it new rubber rollers and wooden rails refitted now that they have been carpeted and once those jobs are done the boat will be put back on the trailer and moved outside and turn back on to its keel down position and lowered back on to the trailer to have the work done on the deck of the speed boat and the engine refitted.


The Cornish Crabber centreboard case forward end will have the mast support post glassed in and the epoxy fillets are made up and fitted to the edges where the matting as to go round the edge of the support post on to the centreboard case.

So all in all a busy week ahead should be good fun or at lease that is the plan.