More of the same

With Misterton safely at Goole, it was time for some more work - hooray! Mary and I were joined for the weekend by my brother Nick and his girlfriend Sally, both over from New Zealand for our wedding. In the Week that had passed since moving to Goole, Alan Pease and his crew had removed the old wheelhouse. It now resides on the back of this truck waiting to go to the scrapyard.

The grey structure in the foreground is the new wheelhouse on Hope.

Removal of the rail around the back of Misterton revealed a few more holes than we would have liked...

Nothing that can't be fixed though. Glad that we're finding this all now anyway. The wheel has been left exposed, but not for long as construction on the new wheelhouse will start soon.

So after looking at all this, we thought we'd better crack on with the interior work. After talking to Alan, it was deemed a good idea to take the roof lining off the front section and I'm glad we did. The previous owner obviously thought paint an unnecessary luxury, and we were confronted with a ceiling of rust. So it was more scraping, chipping and treating, all carried out by Mary and Sally. Nick and I concentrated on taking stuff to the local tip and we quickly got rid of the old materials. Once this was done, we were at a bit of a loose end and so decided to de-clutter the interior some more. My brother's enthusiasm for destruction was quite refreshing as shown by the results here.

My original plan had been to compete the front third of the boat, and then move on to the next section. Well, thats gone out the window now. Mary and I independently came to the conclusion that we're better off stripping the whole interior back in one go and getting all the mess out of the way at once. It'll be a a lot of work, but with all the built in fittings such as kitchen etc. now removed there is no going back.

We had a few visitors over the weekend, Richard and Steven who helped us move to Goole both popped by at different times. We also were graced with the presence of our mum and dad who had made the trip up from Norfolk. Was great to see them and I'm glad they could see Misterton before too much more work had been done.

In the meantime, Mary and Sally were still getting high on paint fumes.

The results look great, just a little bit more to go.

Thats about it. We got a lot done in three days and a big thanks to Nick and Sally for their efforts.