M&S

Earlier this week, Mary and our friend Sabrina went up to Misterton for a few days. They actually seemed to get quite a lot done without me there, I was impressed. Obviously I can't tell them that, or I'd never hear the end of it.

As well as entertaining the workmen and helping them out with answers to questions of what needed doing, they did quite a bit of cleaning and painting.

First up was sweeping the decks and then painting them with Vactan, the rust converter. Although the decks had been previously primed, it was so long ago that spots of rust were showing through again (primer paint isn't waterproof).

Here is Sabrina cleaning and treating the winch.

Mary did the decks down the port side.....

They then proceeded to paint some of the many mooring bollards that Misterton has.

More work had been done on the inside, with the wall between the workshop and kitchen being made.

Up in the wheelhouse, the gearlever was connected.

The steering was also plumbed in, the wheel is off having a bush made so it fits the pump properly.

The plan is to take Misterton to the dry dock on the weekend, so the hull can get blacked and new annodes fitted. Tune in next week for an update from Thorne dry dock........

Part 19

Of Mary's view here. Mary and our friend Sabrina are currently up in Goole for a few days to do some painting and provide motivation. :)

Chicken kebab dinner tonight for me!

Summer Hols

Last week Mary and I spent our summer holidays working on the boat, with the aim of getting everything we need done in Goole completed in the next few weeks before Misterton comes down south. The floor project has been described already, so let start with needle gunning. This has been a recurring task, using the tool to clean off old paint and rust. There were only a few areas left to do on the outside of the boat, so I got kitted up and stuck in.

I was cleaning off the bulwarks prior to them getting repaired, one of them will need a lot of the metal replacing, so I didn't bother cleaning that up. Treated with vactan later in the week, they looked much better.

We were visited on sunday by friends Carolyn and Marv from Lincoln, they look surprisingly chirpy amongst the mess.

Another interesting (to me anyway, I'm not sure Mary shared my excitement) was this old WWII landing craft. It had been sitting unused for most of the last year, but it moved from its berth and is now gone, not sure where.

An arrival this week was the waste tank, we all paused to admire it when it was unloaded.

Its going to be fitted up against the hull side in the workshop, hence the shape, this is the rough position.

I was glad it fitted in, as I was the one who measured it up.

Finally, we got to see the anchor that we brought from ebay and that was shipped directly to Goole.

Alan the boatbuilder assured us it was more than big enough, so we've donated our old one (via Chris on Southcliffe) to the Waterways Museum at Goole - it'll be nice to leave a little bit of Misterton behind (thats not rust).

Floors

An idea that worked well for us.

Part 18

Of Mary's view here. We've just come back from a week of working on the barge, will update later tonight.