This coming week will be spent in Woodplumpton on Chance

On the road in the morning from Essex up to Woodplumpton to make a start on the latest stage of the restoration of Chance. This week my brother  John will be coming over from Yorkshire to help with some of the heavier jobs. His main job this week will be to get the fuel and water tanks out of under the side decks in the cockpit area. I will be sorting out the other ribs in the main cabin and the toilet compartment and finishing off the hull sanding to get rid of the last of the paint on the hull. 

Once the hull is clear of the old paint I will find it easier to work out which of the planks need to be replaced and how long the runs will have to be to make the planking as strong as it will be once more. There is going to be an amount of removing sound planks which are to short and which not giving the hull any strength at all. The planking was possible done when Chance was a houseboat and was not in  use as a moving boat. 

So there is going to be a lot of planking removed  to restore the strength back into the hull and give back the boat its strength once more and be able to be used as a moving sailing and motorboat. 

Another job we hope to get done this week is the removal of the covering boards on the decks to expose the top of the ribs and frames that need replacing especially in the main cabin on the port and starboard sides and in the aft cabin on the starboard where it is a mass of doubled and sistered ribs 

There will be vlogs of this work over the week posted every fortnight, possibly Sunday evening. In future I will try to post a video vlog of the work over the week are up on Chance and a blog every  Wednesday evening to keep my followers informed of what is happening on the restoration both on Chance and back at the workshop where many of the bits of furniture are presently sorted and being worked on in the times we are not going up to Chance.

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