Tuesday 4th October

A warm day in Denmark, bright and sunny. I arrived in good spirits after a walk on the beach with our dog. JP, Veronica and Adrian came in and we had a discussion about cutting down the clever oar blades but decided to wait to talk our current rower, Clem who duly came in to assess the sleeves and buttons. We prised a couple of the old disintegrating pink plastic sleeves off the oars to get an idea of size (M2). Clem’s verdict on the oar blades was non-committal. Bigger blades move more water, smaller ones we would just get used to. The advantage of the smaller ones is that the blade area is similar to St Ayles Skiff wooden oars.

To cut or not to cut?

Veronica continued the filleting job in boat 2 where Geoff and Duncan had left off.

A bit of a stretch.

Adrian sanded the footrests and rudder ready for painting and then moved on to cutting the tenon joint into the back of the rudder for boat 2.

Adrian cutting into the rudder.

I had finished the routing of the grooves in the cox’s seat and mixed up some glue with a teaspoon of iron oxide in it to fill the them.

Filling the grooves.
An art installation perhaps.

After lunch JP re-appeared to help paint the two pack primer on the boat. He rolled and I laid off behind him with a brush.

Sticky stuff this two pack on a warm day.
On it goes.
And thats it done.

We also painted the footrests.

Paint everywhere.
Pretty exhausted by this time.

I packed up and cleaned the brushes and when I went to close the door I saw a bit that I had missed on the rudder yoke. Nothing I could do about it, it will have to go without a primer. We had to start our second tin of primer which was meant for boat 2.

We’ll be there again tomorrow.

Cheers Dave