Before and After

View from the Harbour Wall

Here is a very recent photo of the Strathspey courtesy of Calum MacBain . With the freshly painted wheelhouse and whaleback , so after a lot of hard work by Ian and his team of fisherman the old girl is starting to look much much better.

Fishroom two years ago

This is a photo taken before work started two years ago

Fish Room

Here is a new photo of the old "Fish Room" taken a few days ago courtesy of Kevin Munro who is a fisherman and moderator for the web site "trawlerphotos.co.uk"
The whole of the deckhead has been stripped of layers of rust and the whole lot painted with anti rust paint and lots of bathroom gloss paint which is anti fungal.
All the frames and hull planks have been treated with timber preservative. If you look at some of the very early photo's you will see what a vast difference there is .

ONE DOWN EIGHT TO GO

I spent most of Saturday finishing this first section of cabin wall and door , The door I made up during the week and fitted the hardware and three coats of varnish this weekend . So now that I have practised on this one the others should go a bit quicker !!

BUSY IN MY NEW WORKSHOP

You may have noticed that not much has been happening lately .For one reason I have been away in Italy for a couple of weeks ,which has been nice and relaxing and at least I have had a bit of real summer weather .

Also although plenty has been going on up in Scotland where Ian is organising all the gradual refurbishment work aboard the Strathspey he does not have a digital camera .So any new photos will have to wait until I pay a visit later this summer.

I have been busy in my new workshop though, making cabin doors which are for me the more technically difficult bits of woodwork with lots of mortice joints and rebates .