News from Chance Restoration HQ on what the team have been up to this week


It has been a busy week at Chance Restoration HQ, because the last few days the weather as been not so good for working outside, we took the chance to sort out the parts of Chance we brought back from Woodplumpton when Chance was transported down to Essex.

There was a large amount of parts that were loaded in the two box trailers, some of it is little more than firewood, however, there are a number of important bits which can be used as patterns and others that need cleaning with degreaser and then cleaning down to get rid of any oil and grease before drying off in the workshop before being repaired and re-painting and putting away or putting back in the boat. Such items such as floorboards which need to go back so we can walk around the inside safely.

One of the items that was brought back was the over a ton of scrap iron which made up Chances internal ballast. This will need sandblasting and then coating with epoxy tar and then stored and when the time is right re-fitted to the boat in the bilges in boxes to keep it off the planking and hog.

One of the jobs high on the list of jobs is to get a cover over Chance as soon as possible to keep the rain out of the boat and get the boat dry so that work can be done on the inside at the same time as work is getting done on the planking and the transom.

One job we have been doing this week is removing the deck hatches on the foredeck and aft deck of Chance so that these can be repaired and in some cases replaced as they are to far gone to salvage as they are either rotten or broken. Once the bases are removed the holes can be filled with plywood blanks and sealed until time when the deck hatches refitted to the restored deck.

Another job we were doing over the past few days in work on the transom by removing the old rotten framework from the port side so that I can pattern up the shape of the port side which we know is correct and then turn the pattern over to the starboard side which we know as moved out of shape.

Once the portside pattern is made and turned over  on to the starboard side then we can prop up  the starboard side of the transom back into the correct position and then the new transom framework into position and fix the planking to the new framework to hold the transom and that part of the hull back in the correct place.

At which time we will be able to steam in the new ribs which will further hold that part of the hull in the correct position. However, they are jobs for another day.

First get the boat more watertight from above and make the transom pattern to get the back of the boat sorted out.

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