Starting to remove years of paint to see if the underlaying wood can be saved and can be varnished and getting the hog out of the boat so that a new hog can be fitted

Test patch to see if the gunwales and capping rails can be varnished 

Starting to remove the hog out of the boat as patches are rotten and to be placed once the hull as dried out enough to glass in a new hog and the engine beds 

 

Off loading off the trailer and blocking it off and leveling up before the work starts

Having deciding on where in the yard the boat was going to be while the dismantling was going to take place it was time to get the trailer out of the way. 

Because the boat had developed a bit of hogging it was decided to just block at each end and let the  boat return to its correct shape before starting to refit the inside 

With nothing in the way it will make it easier to work on the bottom of the boat and the keel which is going to modified to take a propeller shaft 

Work getting off the trailer was made a lot easier by using the gantry to lift the boat which when you work by yourself is a get help.

 

The conversion of the Pulling boat to a motor launch is well underway

On the first day in the yard it was emptying out all the loose equipment and floorboards

The next morning it was the turn of the floor bearers and the forward and aft thwarts which are not going back in after the boat becomes a motor launch 

The next job was to remove the rowlock blocks and sort out the way to get to the rudder fittings which will have to be changed to a different design to hold a new designed rudder

 

Mast and lifting keel support post being made and glued together, once the glue cured it will be profiled and glassed in position

The iroko planned to thickness and then cut in half and the grain reversed against each other and then glued together 

Then joint glued with epoxy glue and plenty of cramps  

Once the glue is cured a quick run through the planner and then radius the corners and fit the base on to the hull and bedded on with profile filler and the whole post will be glassed on to the front of the centreboard case 

 

New project boat which has come to the yard to convert this pulling boat into a motor launch

New project boat just come into the yard for conversion from a pulling boat to a small motor launch  

It was full of the last owner equipment which will be got rid of over the course of time, much of it will be recycled or used in some way, however, not put in landfill  

The builder plate, showing it was build in 1995 

The old equipment now removed and put in storage and now a plan of action to be set out to remove some items from the inside and what needs to be put in position to fit the engine beds and stern tube and make a new rudder and skeg and propeller guard 

let the fun begin now the boat is empty of the old equipment and a blank canvas is before us to convert the boat.