A lot has happened over the past three years from first becoming the new owners of Chance the James Silver Western Isles in May 2021

 Just got home after spending a couple of long days in Woodplumpton working on My James Silver Western Isles 'Chance" clearing out rubbish left behind by a previous owner. Once the rubbish was cleared away out of the cabins it made it easier to start to remove some of the smaller items such as locker and cupboard doors as well as other items to make it easier to view the hull from the inside and be able to make repairs to the hull and bulkheads as necessary along the way. One of the larger jobs to do is going to be removing the engines, sterner and tanager over the coming months.

A lot as changed these photos were taken, Chance as moved from Woodplumpton to Walton n the Naze. The interior of Chance as been stripped out back to the bare hull. The worse of the removal of the rotten and broken parts are removed ready for the reconstruction of the hull and superstructure can begin this summer.
We are fund raising to get the materials to start the next stage of the restoration project. We are fund raising to get the materials for the planking, we have already got the oak for the beam shelf and the frames and ribs. So the first project this summer is to put the rotten and missing frames back in the hull so that the framework of Chance is sorted and then get the hull planking back on hull.
We are still looking for deck gear and portholes which have got missing over the years. We are looking for period parts which we can restore and put back in Chance as we rebuild her.
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