Final Week for a while on the Yorkshire Coble

This coming week will be my last week for a while on the restoration of the Yorkshire Coble as I will have finished the wood work part of the boat restoration and it is now time for the Engineer to do his work on the Engine installation and get the fuel and electrics sorted before the boat is re-launched and recommissioned and put to work again.

It has been a long and drawn out affair at times with some jobs taking longer to sort out and other jobs coming to light while doing the job.

All in all it has been an interesting job and one that shows the many different types of boat that my team and I get to work on around the country and sometime abroad.

Last plank going in place

Starting to fit the front end of the plank up to the old scarf joint 

 A close up photo of the plank scarf joint  

 Photo showing the outside view of the plank and its shape

Shoring up the plank into position 

The boats new colours Black White and blue with Red antifouling. 

Port hand side plank starting to go back in place.

The plank starting to be fitted

 The plank starting to be bend over the frames and fitted top and bottom on to the lands 

 View from the outside showing it shored up in position.

Starting to paint the boat again to make it more like it's old self

The hull is now being painted filled and faired up 

The hull looking a lot bigger now its painted white

 The aft end just waiting for the wear patches to be made and fitted.

 Like most Yorkshire Cobles they have a area in the bow painted a different colour to set them aside from other ones when they are at sea fishing. 

This colouring is similar to a thing they do on Norfolk Crab boats where different families have different colours on their boats to let other fisherman  know who's boat is out fishing.

Making a start on putting port side planks back in

The frames are being sorted out and leveled off before fitting new plank to port side.

Starting to plane the high spots off the old frames before fitting new plank back in place. 

Doing the same job to most of the frames as they were a little high in places along the length of the plank

A photo of the area of the aft end of the plank to be fitted

The new plank being shaped to fit on the boat.