Considering just how warm it was yesterday, the weather station recorded 16º C, it was a tad cold this morning. The difference, apart from the temperature, is that it was almost a dead calm yesterday and today it is blowing a hoolie.
It will not surprise you to learn that inside tasks were high on the list. This is one of them. I filled in the carved out letters for Shoal Waters’ name board with pigmented epoxy and once the epoxy is dry it will be put back on the CNC Router and the top skimmed off in very small increments until all the surface epoxy is removed.
I have yet to make a ‘Maldon’ name plate, but that will be done as soon as I can find a suitable good piece of Mahogany or Sapele. If I don’t have any, then I may have to use plywood.
The next task was an inside the workshop task and that was to remove part of the back of the rubbing strake such that the chain plates on the transom may be refitted.
These modifications came out quite well and as soon as I can remove the two brass screws that broke off then I’ll be able to fit the strake in place. Well, after the aft deck is repaired.
Time for a cup of tea.
Well, I have to say that the suspense was doing my head in and I couldn’t concentrate on work, so I hied me down to the workshop and scrabbled through the offcuts wood piles to find a suitable piece of wood for the Maldon name board. Unable to find one, but able to find the parts for one I quickly glued and clamped two pieces together.
Back to work and also,
Time for a cup of tea.
An early finish for today, the large washers delivered this afternoon were not stainless but ordinary steel.
So I surfaced the name plate and varnished it.
Time for a cup of tea.