Back from my travels around the country and now back to working on clients boats

 The Morgan Giles 30 hull painting to continue doing with more layers of Hi-Build Epoxy Primer until the hull is fair and ready to paint its final orange paint  

The deck fairing to continue until it is fair and ready to get painted with Hi-Build epoxy primer and then a deck non slip covering  

This pilot 14 is getting a overall colour change to be yellow all over 

This former sailing whaler, which for a time was a lady's rowing gig is now being converted into a motor launch for its latest owner to explore the local rivers and estuaries around North Essex.   

These have all been long term projects which hopefully will be coming to a close in the near future and so to make room for further projects to come into the yard. 

Work waiting out in the yard to get on with over the summer months

The Enterprise dinghy to get spruced up ready the sailing season, along side the Enterprise dinghy is the Mai Star Class dinghy which needs a sprucing up has well, The Mai Star Class dinghy also need to have a mast and boom and gaff making along with a rudder and tiller. Then it5 will be ready to go sailing as well.   

Another job awaiting restarting is the Cornish Crabber which had to be stopped over the winter and spring as the cover was destroyed in the winter gales and I am awaiting a replacement cover to arrive so that the cover can go back over the boat so the work can be started and the beams can be fitted and the refit can continue.  

Some of thepartsd out of the boat that need sorting and repairing as necessary 

 

Port side done now and the superstructure on both sides

The hull as had the surface smoothed back to a fair surface and it can be wiped down with panel wipe and then given a coat of barrier primer before it has its colour changed to Yellow 

Just got to sand back the curves to finish off the sanding 

 

Stating the long process of changing the colour from blue to yellow

The first job is to sand down the hull of all the old single pack paint until we can see the condition of the hull. 

In the case of this boat it is a bit rough which means we will have to go over the hull a couple of times with different grades of sandpaper discs until we can get a fair surface to paint on the next coat of paint which will be a covering barrier primer. 

The hull is reasonable fair apart from a few patches which will need a bit of fairing up to be fair once more.

Will have to move a few boats around the yard to be able to get down the port side.

Once the hull you can see, then the boat will be lifted off the trailer to be able to sand down the lower part of the hull, then barrier primer that part before lowering it down back on the trailer.

 

First stage of fitting the baffle plate in the tank

Having set up the position of the baffle plate in the water tank it was time to sand down the faces of the baffle plate and the water tank face where the baffle plate is going to be fibreglassed in position 

The next job was to mix up some epoxy resin with filler powder into a thick paste 

Then spread it so it makes a radius at the base of the baffle plate so that the fibreglass can go round the radius curve and adhere correctly to both faces