James Silver Western Isles Chance Restoration

The three fore cabin floor boards which need a good sanding and sealing before they can go back in, however, before that can be done the floor bearers have to be repaired or replaced first so that the floor boards will lay correctly  Here are most of the cockpit floor boards, some may be missing, if so then we can make new floor boards to replace the old floor boards, the original floor boards were made out of Teak. So it is going to be a little on the expensive side to replace them with teak. The forecabin floor boards standing up showing the shape of the missing furniture in the fore cabin which was missing when we got Chance, however, they bear witness to where the missing furniture should be and so we can make the correct furniture for the forecabin once more.  The galley area floor boards, again these are made from teak, we will see if any are missing and if so replace what is missing with teak again. These floorboards will need a good sanding and sealing before these go back in p

If you look at the transom the port side is its correct position and the starboard side as fallen down, due to a poorly dne replacement of the beam shelf down the starboard which was not refixed to the rest of the deck structure.  When we laid the two sets of transom cover plates they are identical in shape and length. This shows that they were not put back on as they would have showed up the change in shape that came about when the starboard shelf repair was done.  Using these as patterns it should be able to gauge when we get the starboard side back to the correct shape when when start removing more of the starboard framework and let the hull regain the correct shape once more.  

As the weeks go on, it is a week of varnishing the parts of the cockpit furniture, some with the first coats of full strength varnish as in the case of the chart table locker and drawer fronts The bottom locker door  Then the chart table top now all getting their first full strength varnish coats. This is the port side cockpit seat side bulkhead panel, it is amazing to see this is a single piece of mahogany and not made up of several panels glued together.  The two side panel which go either side of the aft companionway steps down into the aft companionway to the aft stateroom  The base of one of cockpit lockers, it is either the portside seat locker base or the base of the bottom locker of the chart table locker.