A big Thank you to my Clients who stood by my business through the Covid Pandemic

 I had like to say a big thank you to all my clients who stood by me during this challenging past year. The year was extremely challenging for everyone given the restriction of Covid and the lack of movement to see their boats and even work on them.

However, as the year opened up and there was an easing o restrictions and people were able to get out and go to their boats and get work done on them, life did start to return to a new normal.

In the early part of the year I was able to work through the Pandemic as I work alone for most of the time and during the early part of the year I did just that.

Over the course of the year work did start to come back into the yard, although a little slow at first, as people started to regain their freedom once more.

Many of the projects which were put on hold over the course of the lockdown have now restarted and are now back underway once more. The Morgan Giles 30 is now coming towards the end stages of her major restoration and hopes to come out of the workshop in the late spring or early summer. The picnic boat is also gaining speed as much of the interior work is now complete . So it is now time to get her out of the workshop and turned over to be able to fit the keel which will enclose the propeller shaft and fit the rudder at the same time. Before it then comes back in the workshop to get the decks covered with a mahogany and holly laid deck and the floorboards and engine box fitted and the engine finally bolted down in position. Then get the hull and bottom painted before it goes on sea trails..

The two motor boats in the yard will have their work finished off and returned to their owners and the Cornish Crabber will then be brought into the workshop to get her restoration underway again.

So in the meantime, We are looking to employ a skilled boat builder to help with the increased workload we have for 2023.

So if you are a boat builder who is up to a challenge get in contact with Simon on 07534045729 for a chat

New Emergency tiller for a client with a Catalac 9M

I was asked by a client if I could make him an emergency tiller for his Catamaran. 

Between, we made up the metal work and I made him a tiller that could be used both as an emergency and also as a tiller to use without having to sail the boat from the wheel.  

Because it is a good length there will be little pressure to be needed to make any manoeuvres. That way he has the best of both worlds 

The tiller even pivots as well so when not being used it can be lifted out of the way of the cockpit.

 

So the change back to orange is on its way.

So the long job of sanding back the ghost coat of black until the hull turns grey one more 

The first go around will get rid of most of the ghost coat and the second go around will give the hull the smooth finish it needs to apply the first coat of orange two pack paint 

So far halfway down the starboard side, there's a long way to go until we are back at the stem on the port side.  

 

So The Morgan Giles 30 was orange, then it was grey and now it is black, What is the world coming too?

It has now come to the stage in the refit to think about doing the hull re-painting. It can be seen that the Morgan Giles 30 was once an orange hulled boat, Which it is going to be again, however, it had to go through a transformation first. 

First we had to paint several coats of Hi-Build epoxy primer to the hull after we removed the old paint system off the hull and did any necessary repairs and modifications to the hull during its long refit.  

So it has come to the time when after the coats of Hi-Build epoxy primer have come to an end and it is now time to flat back the epoxy primer back to a smooth finish ready to start the repainting back, you guest it back to orange again. however, it is a different shade of orange this time 

The ghost coat of black paint as been sprayed all over the hull which now as to cured before we sand the hull down back to a smooth grey colour before coating it with its first coat of orange

So there is going to be a few hours of sanding the hull ahead for us over the coming days before we are ready for the first coat of orange.

So let the fun begin 

 

Getting back on to the paint job on the Morgan Giles 30

First job was to more all the plywood from behind the boat so we had enough room first sand down the transom and then to paint the transom.

Having moved the boat up the workshop and gaining enough room to set up the staging to sand the transom.

Thefirst coat of three to go on the transom to make the paint thickness to the same as the rest of the hull.

The new top coat arrived from the supplier so when the hull is ghost coated with a coat of black paint and then sanded back this will be ready to apply to the hull.