So, first things first. Off to the local timber merchant to buy six reclaimed railway sleepers. These need to be cut into blocks which will be used to support the trailer and the boat when necessary.

Railway sleepers are heavy so I cut them up by sliding them out of the minibus and cutting the end off, five times per sleeper.

Our super new electric chain saw wasn’t quite wide enough to cut the sleepers so I used the saw that came with the gardening tool thingy and that worked well.

Six blocks on one side of the boat…

… and six blocks on the other

The rest I stacked in the Hay Barn for now.