Tuesday 18th October

Adrian was the first in this warm morning. It was going to be another milestone day as I had asked the members for help to turn boat 1 back over so we can put the finishing touches to her. It then went a bit quiet as Adrian went ahead with the cox’s seat supports. I sanded the edges of the oar blades which I had covered with epoxy to cover the foam core yesterday.

Adrian finalising the cox’s seat supports and Dr John sanding yesterdays glue up on the frames.

Lesley arrived bringing a tray full of her home baked date muffins. She had another shot at sanding the rudder for boat 2 while Veronica finished shaping and sanding the breasthooks.

More sanding!

People started arriving for the turnover just before 10.30 and Erica brought a cake. We had enough people to lift her and Clem and I had laid out a tarp on the gras to roll her over on. So up she went and out and over and then back in the shed.

Up
Over she goes.
And back in the shed.
A moment to admire it.
While I fix up the supports.
Dogs are wondering what all the fuss is about.
Lots of admiring comments were bandied around.
Time to admire our handiwork.
Bright and shiny now.
Time for a tea break.

Adrian got his supports glued in and all the frames were sanded and ready when everyone had packed up leaving me to make the bow seat supports. I finished those and glued them in as well as the beams and the cox’s floorboard support frame.

Bow and cox’s seat supports glued and held in place with masking tape. Beams all glued and clamped in place.

We’ll glue the outer gunwale on tomorrow and shape the thwarts. There is quite a bit of resin coating to catch up on and we could paint the oar blades.

See you tomorrow.

Cheers Dave