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 touching up by hand next week as well as a final coat next week.

Sheet of celotex was cut to form a temporary door to keep the engine room from getting covered in a red mist!

Making a base for the water tank to go on all cut by hand as forgot my power saw, its hard work cutting 18mm ply by hand! Base plate was uneven at the front so needed careful positioning of battens to make sure ply base was evenly supported.

Water tank was a very tight fit - particularly as I had insulated under the front deck!

Unfortunately it was a bit too tight and couldn't get the vent pipe fitting on so water tank will have to wait until next week since it was already gone 8pm and still had to drive back to Somerset. New fitting was also much taller so will have to resort back to original and even then the insulation needs "adjusting" to get it to fit!

All in all not a bad weekends work and hopefully next weekend will go well.