Just a few more doors and then it will be the turn of the drawers to get sorted out

 Just a couple of the pile of doors to do and then it will be the turn of the number of drawers from the boat to look at and in some cases make new drawers as some have so come rot at the backs where they were in contact with the hull planking and were in damp areas of the boat with little or no ventilation to keep the areas from being a breeding ground for wet rot. 

Now that much of the interior is removed and air can circulate around the inside of the hull and the fact that the decks are covered with weather proof sheeting the water is being kept out of the inside of the boat and the boat is getting a chance to get dried inside.
One job I will have to do first is sort out the contents of the drawers and dis guard any items in the drawers which are just rubbish and keep any items that are going to be reused in the restoration  and source other items if there are items that are more to be needed later on in the restoration of the boat. 
One thing that appears to come to mind is the need to get a number of the fittings re-chromed as a number have chromed fittings on one side of the cabin doors and cabin locker doors and the other side is just brass or bronze fittings which on the underside is still chromed. This appears to repeated on nearly every door so far on the doors I have removed from the boat whichever end of the boat it as come from so far.   
Tomorrow for the first couple of hours it will be more scraping to get the doors finished off as far as scraping it done and then it will be the turn of the electric sander to  get rid of the last of the varnish and sand the doors back to their original colour ready to be coated with thin varnish to seal the surface until they are needed to be finished off and put back on the Chance later on in the restoration and before she is relaunched. 
Hopefully I should be able to go back to Chance soon and that some more of the items back to the workshop to be worked on and get back to working on Chance and get the engines out soon and so getting the hull stripped out ready to work on over the winter months and then ready to move back to my yard in the spring . 

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