This coming week, I will spend sorting out what parts I have at my workshop

 Because of my van problems and the fact, I am unable to get to Chance for a couple of weeks. My day job taking priority, that is repairing other peoples;s boats before my own fine vessel. I will put aside some time after work to sort out the parts of Chance's interior woodwork I have already got at my own boatyard.  Most of it is in fair condition, however, it will all need re-vanishing after all the old varnish is removed and the bare wood is sanded back to the original grain and colour. A long job, but a necessary job to bring back the colour of the original colour of the wood when Chance was originally build in 1948. 

 It appears  that Chance was build using South American Mahogany and not like a number of other James Silver boats build around the same time which were build using Teak.  May be the original owner did not wish to have her build of Teak or it was not available when she was being build. I will have to do some more research in to why this was the case. It may be just cost, who knows.  

Some of the parts which came back after the first couple of visits to Chance  are in poor condition and will need to be renewed  Parts of the drawers and doors have areas of rot in them and will need to be renewed. The old parts can be used as patterns to make the new drawers and doors. The next problem will be trying to find good quality mahogany with a colour close to the original. 

So it is going to be a task to set up a work station in my temporary workshop out in the yard to work on the parts that are already back at my boatyard. The first job will be to wash the old parts down to get rid of any dirt and to check out the condition of each part before making pans to to sort out what needs doing to which parts . So it will be a job for one of my apprentices catalog each part and give me a report on the course of action for each part.