And the torture never stops

With all my illusion I put away the welding equipment, thinking I never will need it again in this Refit. Failed! Just out off the paintig box with all the water in the bilge we note some verry small water stains in the hull area...outside, below the water line. And its not raining! So this water is coming from the bilge inside and filters trough the steel out of the hull. What a shit, we have a serios corrosion problem in the hull.
A closer look in the hidden bilge areas showes us frightening. No way to repair this rotten steel without dismantel the gally with all the floor in the middel of the ship.
Ok, here we go. Now its a bit to late to abandon the proyect.

Paint job

Finally Reliant becomes a new dress. We are so annoyed to see here allways in her rusty look. From now the motivation rises again.

Sand blasting

Now this is a realy hard job. And Reliant is on flood. So much we also seald all the orifices, the water is coming as Tinatik at her last hour. When we conect the battery system again the bilge alarm starts to sound for sheer water acumulatet in the bilge.

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.