Things may be a bit erratic with the blog for the next ten days or so; I'm sorry not to be able to stick to the regular slot, but I will do my best to get something out every day!
We'd had a text from Peter Mason last night asking us to arrive at nine this morning, when the current boat in the paint shed, Dolce Far Niente, would be emerging. Accordingly, we set off from Adlington at a quarter past eight, and by ten to nine were on the water point. Dolce wasn't quite ready to come out, so we filled in the time by refilling the water tank. Once Dolce was extracted, I winded Sanity Again outside the yard and then reversed her in. She needs to be in stern first so that all of the hand rails are under cover, the paint dock being too short for a full length boat.
Since then, the handrails have been masked off, rubbed down and the first coat of paint applied. The leaking prism has been extracted for resealing, and we've made a start on cutting the lawn and tidying up the garden in preparation for the Open Day.
Stephen and Jayne, Dolce's owners, came over to inspect progress (the boat is due to be finished next Tuesday) and Eileen and Bill from New Dawn came round as well. At one o'clock, we all went down to the Boar's Head for lunch, since when we've been passing what was left of the afternoon chatting, drinking cups of tea, a bit more gardening and making a start on breaking up an old dinghy that's been lurking around the yard for years but is now pretty well past it.
Well actually, it is completely past it now, I've cut its stern off. Once it's been cut up entirely, Peter will load the bits in his car and take them to the Council tip just down the road.
We'll spend the weekend on this and similar tasks, I expect.
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