Merry Christmas

Christmas spirit in the workshop :-)

Hatshes

And finelly we have the opotunity to seal the hatsches. The water bath reveals all the leaks.

Garage

During in the yard starts the paintjob we are not lazy and going on to refit all the winshes and woodworks in our garage. The best time to do this kinde of work is winter when you have a garage with heater and sound equipment....we have :-)
2 long month we are happy with our job, girlfrinds comes and help, the musik is playing and all this old items get a pretty new look. Pity that not all the works on our vessel are so comfortably.

Gaslocker

We try to restore the gaslocker, located at the stern in the cockpit. But no way. All the surroundings are absolutely unserviceable and so we decided to build a new one. Easy to say, hard work to do.

 

 

 

The deckshouse windows

We can´t believe it: We discover the rotten windows frames in the deckshouse. Now the schedule is finally in the ass. It will be take several weeks to restore the frames. The moste of time it´s raining and the wind blows like hell.
The living in the ship is the greatest adventure. Since we live 150 km away from the port we have to sleep in the boat. That´s not funy.

 

Reliant surprised with a lot of rust in the decks area

Every day we find more areas totally destroyed by the rust...the work is changing in a serious hard job. And time is running. In the begining of december we have a date with the painter. At least we have to finish the steel works before.

The hatches has to go out

We start with the dismounting of all the decks hardware....1000 screws....rotten teakwood...steel frames and all the hatches must be put out.
With each part we will remove more and more corrosion is visible.
At least the weather is fine, so at the moment we don´t lose courage.