How much more?

....of the old fitout is left? Not too much after this last weekend. We got rid of all the remaining cabin lining on the side and most of the ceiling in the workshop. Next weekend will hopefully see the end of fibreglass removal. I think we're up to trip 30 in Mary's car to the local tip.

Here is the view mid way through the day.

Later on in the day we (well Mary really....) tidied up.

There is more rust than we'd all hoped, but Alan's team are working on it and she'll get fixed properly this time. Most of the rusting is down to letting things go, with deck leaks not being fixed and then rusting out just above the rubbing strakes. We need to think about insulation types, and given that we've now stripped the interior out, sprayfoam might be a good option. Anyone care to comment from personal experience?

There is a nice little tug moored behind us at the moment.

Along with a quite impressive sailing boat.

My friend Dave and his wife Marg of narrowboat 'Sleepy Hollow' popped by to see how we were doing. Richard dropped by and we've been chatting to the people at the local waterways museum where we tend to eat every time we're there now (my personal favorite is a 'Tom Pudding' - a giant Yorkshire pudding full of mash, vegtables and sausages). Its all becoming quite social and it feels like a safe place for Misterton to be for a while.

One of the guys from the museum found an old picture of her in her working days. Nice.

Comments

[Laurie]

Hi

I would recommend spray foam for the insulation, you can read about our exploits with it here - http://slowboat-real.blogspot.com/. Once you get going it is quite easy and much quicker than other methods, fibreglass, rockwoll etc, which also tend to 'sweat' making everything rusty again. I'm sure Tim (http://timzim.blogspot.com/) would also recommend it and he's got the links to suppliers on his blog.

Laurie

[Simon]

Thanks for the tip, looks like you had fun doing yours! Sprayfoam is now looking like the favourite at the moment, my only concerns are never being able to see whats going on underneath and future problems with welding.

Simon

[Laurie]

Hi

Well we only sprayed the sides and ceiling, and we only did this after making sure everything was OK rust-wise. We didn't spray anything below the water line as this is the area that is most likely to need repair (welding etc). When we fitted a flue for our boiler we we're able to cut the foam away from the area and then cut through the steel, this had no affect on the surrounding foam. I've been told that if you do need to weld on the steel that's been foamed it has very little effect on the foam possibly causing it to melt a little, but we've not tried this. I suppose it's all the preparation, making sure you don't need to weld after you've done. :-)

Laurie