Work waiting out in the yard to get on with over the summer months

The Enterprise dinghy to get spruced up ready the sailing season, along side the Enterprise dinghy is the Mai Star Class dinghy which needs a sprucing up has well, The Mai Star Class dinghy also need to have a mast and boom and gaff making along with a rudder and tiller. Then it5 will be ready to go sailing as well.   

Another job awaiting restarting is the Cornish Crabber which had to be stopped over the winter and spring as the cover was destroyed in the winter gales and I am awaiting a replacement cover to arrive so that the cover can go back over the boat so the work can be started and the beams can be fitted and the refit can continue.  

Some of thepartsd out of the boat that need sorting and repairing as necessary 

 

Port side done now and the superstructure on both sides

The hull as had the surface smoothed back to a fair surface and it can be wiped down with panel wipe and then given a coat of barrier primer before it has its colour changed to Yellow 

Just got to sand back the curves to finish off the sanding 

 

Stating the long process of changing the colour from blue to yellow

The first job is to sand down the hull of all the old single pack paint until we can see the condition of the hull. 

In the case of this boat it is a bit rough which means we will have to go over the hull a couple of times with different grades of sandpaper discs until we can get a fair surface to paint on the next coat of paint which will be a covering barrier primer. 

The hull is reasonable fair apart from a few patches which will need a bit of fairing up to be fair once more.

Will have to move a few boats around the yard to be able to get down the port side.

Once the hull you can see, then the boat will be lifted off the trailer to be able to sand down the lower part of the hull, then barrier primer that part before lowering it down back on the trailer.

 

First stage of fitting the baffle plate in the tank

Having set up the position of the baffle plate in the water tank it was time to sand down the faces of the baffle plate and the water tank face where the baffle plate is going to be fibreglassed in position 

The next job was to mix up some epoxy resin with filler powder into a thick paste 

Then spread it so it makes a radius at the base of the baffle plate so that the fibreglass can go round the radius curve and adhere correctly to both faces 

 

Starting to construct the water tank, making the baffle plate fit and cut the top to fit inside the top lip of the tank.

First shape the moulding pattern to fit and then cut the moulded baffle plate  

The moulded baffle plate released from the plywood panel 

The baffle plate cut to fit the inside faces of the tank 

Then it was the turn of the top panel to get shaped to fit the tank 

The top panel released from the moulding panel and ready to cut to size and shape 

The pattern being used to make the pattern the correct size and shape before cutting the panel. I cut the inspection hatch holes to be able to fit the top in the correct place once it is cut to size.