Cleaning up my small workshop back at home, so some of the smaller jobs can be done without travelling to the larger workshop at Walton

The job was to sort out the rubbish from what is needed in this workshop and sort out the shelves into some sort of order once more

The main job is to sort out what can be reused and what will have to go into the skip at the larger workshop.

The work bench is getting clearer and just have to fit a small vice to the front and bring some of the extra tools I have in the main workshop and put them in the rack and on the shelves and some of the other tools can go in the repurposed filing cabinet under the work bench which can hold some of the power tools which I have two or more of and can be used in this workshop

The other job I will have to do is clear up the outside of the workshop and when I get to the other workshop find the door I made for this workshop and make a second door to fit in the doorway and make it secure. Also sort out the wall rack to fit other tools that need to be at hand when working in this workshop. 

 

Getting on with some of the smaller jobs around the workshop while waiting for other things to arrive at the workshop

Polishing the brass bell for Chance before it goes off to the engravers to have her name put on the bell and the year Chance was built and later have the date when Chance goes back afloat.

Giving the locker lids off April Star their second coat of primer/undercoat before sanding them back and giving them the first of three coats of gloss.

Another small but necessary job to make up two new short aft of cabin deck beams for Mai Star II which will have to be jointed into the two uprights that make up the uprights for the companionway hatch boards 

The wood is part of an offcut from making the framework for the final frame in Chances' hull which when cut will be fitted in Chance as the start of rebuilding the transom and the rest of the back of chances' hull.

The locker lids having been painted and just need to dry before the next coat of paint is applied in the morning

The connecting part of the frame roughly cut out and just waiting to be trimmed and bevelled to fit the hull when it is bolted two the other two halves of the freame 

The other two sections waiting to be trimmed and bevelled like the connecting piece.

 

Engineering and lathe spaces in the workshop and the continuing work on the dinghy we have into be restored.

Engineering space where all the marine engineering jobs are done when they come into the workshop by our trained technicians. 

If there are lathe jobs we have a wood turning lathe to make parts that need a lathe to make them up much as winch bases or other items that need to be made up at a custom size not available off the shelf .

Having cut the next section of the old aft seat it is time to make up and fit a ne inner outboard pad to the transom

To keep the hull from flexing while the hull is being worked on a cross brace is fitted with support legs are fitted in place to keep the hull level while we work on putting the strength back into the hull and refit the seats and gunwales.

 

The next restoration dinghy in the workshop to get a fresh lease of life

This 10ft dinghy was picked up by a client to have me restore it to a tender for their larger boat.

It is very much a blank canvas with no fixture of fittings so it can be made to be exactly what te owner wishes to have in this dinghy/tender.

There is a fair bit of sanding and grinding to be done before I can start the restoration process.

It is a challenge however, it is a  dinghy worth doing to get a boat back on the water without spending a lot of money on a new dinghy when a old dinghy can and should be restored.  

 

The picnic boat now filled and faired up ready for Hi Build primer and a change from the yellow rowing skiff

The topsides now have been filled and faired, so it is now ready for the first coat of High Build epoxy primer.

The hull now is in a position where it can be worked on at a reasonable height and the work on the inside can continue as well.

Just got to get the owner to supply the paint and I can continue to get the topsides to a position to get it ready to give it its final coat.

The owner as decided to have a small rudder under the boat and do away with the transom hung rudder it had before. Just got to get the owner to supply the rudder gear to install the new rudder.

So for the moment work has stopped on this boat while the owner get the paint and rudder gear down to the workshop so the work can continue.