We’ve done much of the external brightwork, antifouling, cleaning and polishing, and she looks much tidier from the outside. Inside, all the furniture on the port side is removed and work progresses on replacing the rotten portion of the forward bulkhead where water had leaked in down the port chainplate over the years – This was anticipated work, flagged up by the survey, but what a job!

As you can imagine, getting the new piece to fit exactly took quite a bit of painstaking fitting, including some imaginative language and an awful lot of patience!