Friday, 23 February 2018

The Mai-Star Class dinghy in the workshop and its fitting out is well underway

The Dinghy brought into the workshop after being outside undercover until there was space the workshop


Next it was time to turn her over to put the bilge runners and skeg on before turning her over to finish doing the final few copper nails along the keel


While its this way up it will be time to cut the keel slot 


The bottom looking more finished off  






Thursday, 22 February 2018

The Hardy Navigator almost finished and will be heading outside to be with the Shetland

The Hardy Navigator almost finished apart from a few jobs and the Enterprise is now in the workshop to get finished off.


The canopy now repair and set up correctly just it will do its job 


The Shetland Family Four now out in the yard waiting for its new owner to pick it up



Spoiling the new plank for the Classic yacht the team are working on, once marked off and fitted the shaft log can be fitted and then the shaft log can be bored out to take the stern tube.


All change in the workshop and out and about

The Mai-Class dinghy and the Enterprise in the workshop to get them finished off and out on the water


The Enterprise just needs a few more control lines and the toe straps fitting and the hull just needs a quick few coats of paint and it will be ready to go sailing again.


Starting to make the patterns for the new planks for the Bottom of  the classic yacht the team are working on at present.



Tuesday, 20 February 2018

finally got the brakes finished off and back together

 The brake adjusters were completely seized and had to be dismanlted to be able to be made serviceable

A lack of maintenace over a lot of years



Even the fixed part on the brake base needed clean up and lightly greased to ensure the parts moved before removing the grease from the unit so that the brake shoes worked correctly


The adjuster back in position and able to move freely


Drum back on after all the hard work on getting the brakes sorted 


Finally the last of the wheels back on and the trailer on ready to do its job of transporting the boat back to the river where the boat is moored during the season


Monday, 19 February 2018

The continuing saga of the trailer brakes that have been neglected

My client bought this trailer as a braked trailer, it does not look like this as seen any maintenance in a long time. 

These brake shoes have no brake material left on the shoes.

It was laying in the bottom of the drum



Completely sized brake adjusters   



Complete strip down and rebuild,