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Progress on refit of Diesel & Dust in 2011

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5-7th February

Managed to finally get the water tank to fit on Friday after cutting away some insulation from under the well deck and using the lowest profile 1/2" fitting I could find for the breather pipe:   Also got a final coat of paint in boatman's cabin including behind weed hatch. Saturday was spent putting coat of grey floor paint on bilges and floor of boatman's cabin:   Then continued with insulation and battens on the cabin sides creating a lot of mess in the process!   By the end of the
Tom and Bex

Tom and Bex

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22-24 January 2011

As can be seen from previous entry Diesel and Dust is now back on hard standing.   Work this weekend concentrated on cleaning up as much as possible including sweeping down the outside of the boat and painting the boatman's cabin. After cleaning the rust was treated in the boatman's cabin on Saturday and after masking up was sprayed with 2 coats of red oxide - not easy working is such a small confined space while spraying and getting behind the new weed hatch was very difficult and may need to
Tom and Bex

Tom and Bex

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22 January - review of work completed

All the welding has now been finished by Debdale Wharf and Diesel & Dust is back on the hard standing again. It was nice to be round the back again with less distractions and feels easier to work round there without disturbing people and less coming and going to distract you!   The work they have done is filling some of the deeper pits with weld, plating the front hull from well deck drains back on both sides:   Repair the front bulkhead and drainage channel in both front lockers wh
Tom and Bex

Tom and Bex

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8-10 January 2011

Back to work on the boat again so soon which is nice. Just wish I could have every weekend off but don't think work would allow it! Glad to see work Debdale are progressing well with the work they are doing for us.   Started on Friday evening by painting a first coat of blacking in water tank space under front deck. It's a very tight space to be working in with all the fumes from blacking!   Saturday and its time to put some insulation up. After thinking about the various options I decided
Tom and Bex

Tom and Bex

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New Year at Debdale Wharf Marina

A very quiet New Year this year for us - a bit different to our usual Hogmanay celebrations in Scotland!   Not many photos this time as the camera was broken.   We arrived late afternoon New Year's Eve having driven up in the camper and the van so we could have the luxury and heating of the camper and leave it up there until the boat was a bit more comfortable to sleep on. Unpacked the tools I thought we'd need from the van and showed Becky the progress as she hadn't been up for a few weeks
Tom and Bex

Tom and Bex

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