The work ahead for J-Star Marine Services, it is going to be busy time between now and Easter down at the Workshop and Yard

 As of Monday this coming week it will be time to go back to work and make a start on sorting out the workshop and the yard so that I can move around the projects in the workshop and out in the yard so that the more pressing projects can get worked on and the projects that have been put on hold can be put outside and into storage. The first job to start this coming week, to move out the blue speed boat out of the workshop and turn it over so the work on the deck can be started on at a later date. Before that can be done the small matter of moving a conversion project on its trailer has to be moved from outside of the workshop doors so the speed boat can come out. The conversion project will have to be moved out on to the road outside the yard to give access to the workshop and room to move the speed boat trailer into position so that it can go under the speed boat and move it out of the workshop. Once it is out and turned over it can have a large cover put over the boat and put into storage while the conversion project can come in the workshop and dried out and worked on as it is required for Easter This year to do some local bird watching and nature visits around the local area. Although, the conversion project appears to be a major project, once the floor bearers and engine beds are fitted the major construction work will be done. The only other construction work inside the boat will be making will be making a back seat and side benches and an engine box for the new engine installation. Then make a new rudder and tiller. Then later on sand back paint work on the outside of the hull to change from its last paint colour to the new owner's choice of colour which is a light blue. So major boat movements to start the year before I can get underway with the conversion project. While that underway I have other project get on with the Cornish Crabber refit, namely get the mast support post glassed on to the centreboard case and the two deck beams above the mast support fitted and glassed in. Then the owner wishes to fabricate the lifting system which will be fitted to the top of the base part of the mast support post. That way the mast support has two different but equally important jobs to do.

There will be the Morgan Giles 30 to keep doing work on and also the 8 ft dinghy to be moulded and the Classic Gaff cutter to get work done on, so I am going to be busy person over the coming months.