The first week into the New Year and major plans for the year ahead

Now we are back at work and we have given ourselves a dead line for getting Chance down the country to my home part of the country.

The deadline is going to be around the time of my birthday at the beginning of May. All being well and the country not being lock-downed again. The hull of Chance should be in a condition to be able to move her down to Essex from Woodplumpton and then continue the restoration down in Walton on the Naze in Essex where my yard is situated.
I hope to go back up to Woodplumpton during January to continue to remove the last remaining bits of furniture and the fuel and water tanks out of the engine bay along with the engine drip trays which need to be removed as under the starboard drip tray there is a plank that as come off the frame which needs investigating to find out why the plank as come adrift and repair or renew the affected frame.
Once the tanks are out and loaded into the trailer and the engines are put in the back of the van then they can come down to the J-Star Marine Services Workshop to be worked on and if repairable then have them repaired or if that is not possible get prices to replace them. I would like to keep the old tanks if possible as they are a good size.
Another job when we go back up to Woodplumpton, will to continue to clean out the bilges and get them into a condition where it is possible to gauge their condition, then when they are clean and dry paint them out.
So that should see us through January, so if February, it will be time to mark off the planks that need renewing and order the wood to replace the rotten planking. We are going to use Mahogany for the planking once more as this is the wood used to build Chance and so it is only right that the same material is used again to re-plank her. We expect to have to take a fair amount of the hull plank off the hull especially on the port side as this appears to be the worse side in the amount of rot and short planks that have been replaced in the past.

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