Starting the touching up of the varnish and paintwork on the two small projects in the workshop.

Having finished the sanding of the decks of the Enterprise it is now time to start laying up the thinned coats of varnish on the bare wood areas of the decks. 

The main areas have been the areas where the cover was in contact with the varnish and broken down the surface of the varnish.

Most of the varnish is in good condition and will just need a few coats of varnish when the areas have been touched up enough to get the layers back to the good condition varnish.

The clinker dinghy has been touched up where the paint was sanded back and was back to bare wood, most of the lands were where the paint was thin and needed touching up. 

The transom needed a bit of touching up as well, so it was done at the same time as the Enterprise dinghy.

 

Now that the larger projects have left the yard and workshop it is time to get on with some of the smaller projects that have been waiting to get done.

This Enterprise dinghy is in for some much needed TLC, The main areas are where the varnish needs to be sanded back to bare wood and patch varnished until it is back up to the same thickness as the area that are not affected. 

Once this is done then the Enterprise dinghy will turned over and the hull sanded and primered where necessary and then given a fresh coat of white marine gloss. 

Some of the areas that were affected were large and other not so large 

As in this photo just a small area around the top of the stem on to the small area of the foredeck.

The Mai Star Class dinghy is now ready to be cleaned down and the bare patches need marine primer applied and then a fresh coat of white gloss and the top plank need re-varnishing before the boat is turned back over and the inside and top of the gunwales need re-varnishing and the inside needs repainting 

The restoration dinghy project is coming along with a few more hull repairs to be done on the inside before the whole of the inside is sanded back to clean fibreglass and the inside is given a coat of grey flow coat. 

Then the gunwale will be made and steamed into position and the rest of the restoration will be done.

 

After 5 years the workshop is now empty of the Morgan Giles 30 and there is room for other projects to get done.

The Morgan Giles 30 now at its new home for the outside work to be done before launching next spring and sailing home to Scotland with its owner.

Now that the Morgan Giles 30 is at its new home until it is launched the workshop is a hive of different work from sanding and painting and varnish dinghies to moulding new dinghies to rebuilding old dinghies which were going to land fill.  

The blue dinghy was on its way to a landfill site when an owner who is a friend of J-Star Marine Services ask if he with the help of the team at J-Star Marine Services could help bring this boat back to life. 

The latest Little Mai Star Dinghy being finished off ready to go to its new owner in the North of England.

We are always looking for new projects, to fill our workshop and give it the attention it deserves from a team which no what it takes to bring the owners dreams to life.