Back at home base, the boatyard workshop

This morning was spent unloading the trailer and sorting out the workshop having off loaded the van on Sunday morning of all the bits and pieces I had loaded in the van and trailer for the trip back from Woodplumpton on Friday afternoon which then turned into night after being holed up in a two and a half  hour traffic jam on the motorway home. So I was not bested please having left early from Woodplumpton to then be held up on the drive home. 

The bits and pieces which I had off loaded out of the van was the drawers and the rest of the doors out of the fore and aft cabins and the galley area. The only doors left on the boat are the main cabin settee doors which I have not been able to remove has yet, A job for next time I go to Woodplumpton to work on the boat. 

Also offloaded my tools and wood that I have bought to do the replacement floorboards when I get a can to unscrew the original floorboards and replace them with the wood I purchased to replace them. 

So this morning was spent sorting out the workshop and organizing the tools and the drawers and doors, putting away the tools in their lockers around the workshop and then sorting out the doors and drawers into piles to start stripping the old varnish and making an inspection of the condition of the drawers and doors and making a list of the work needed to be done to either repair or replace the rotten or damaged drawers and doors for the most part they are in reasonable condition  considering the neglect they have had over the past 20 plus years. 

After lunch it was out with the hot air gun and a three cornered scraper and a couple of screwdrivers and a container to remove all the door furniture and then make a start to remove the varnish. By the end of the day I was well  over halfway through the doors and drawers. Having removed a lot of old varnish and finding a few rotten patches on the doors. It is early days and I am sure to find more rotten bits and pieces with the doors and drawers as a work my way through them. 

So tomorrow morning finish off the last of the drawers and doors and then at the weekend continue working on them. So in the meantime it is back to my day job as a full working boatbuilder working on other peoples boats.


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