Thursday 17th November
Beautiful warm weather yesterday for the last of Sally Ward’s instruction rows on St John. Thank you again Sally. The opportunity for a row proved popular and two shifts went out onto the inlet in the morning while I took my own boat out of the water for some much needed TLC.
Back in the shed today it was raining outside when Paul and I arrived. Paul tackled the task of putting the sleeves and buttons on the next set of oars which all had a wider shaft diameter than the new sleeves so he resorted to using the old sleeves for now.
I was masking up the paintwork for the colour stripe on boat 2 while JP cleaned up the rowlocks. JP nipped out for chocolate digestives, ginger nuts and more tea bags before morning tea.
After tea break I started painting the blue stripe on the second plank after having a chat about whether a yellow highlight line should be added above or below the blue. My wife, JB, stuck her head in and stated that it should be a thin line above and below the blue.
Paul also masked up the oar blades so that I could paint the stripes on them to denote their position in the boat.
At this rate we should be turning boat 2 over again next week.
Cheers Dave