Progress September October | Perdita 2 Wooden Boat Little Ship

Welcome to another exciting update! 🙂 September and October have been busy with day job work, so we’ve only had a few days to make any real progress, a couple of Saturdays really. We’ve done a few bits and pieces though – so here are the photos of what’s new:

It’s still a bit weird to see lights on inside the boat, like she’s slowly coming alive! We have a particularly bright toilet.

Here’s the deck and cabin top back in October 2016, a year ago this month. This first photo is the day I bought Perdita, when she was still moored at the previous owners home by the river being gradually killed by the rain. The paint peeling, deck leaking and cracked and the blue paint looking a bit tired:

Here’s a similar angle with a few jobs going on this month, some new deck paint, the cabin top being trimmed and sealed along with a load of job bits sat on the fresh white paint:

The other progress we’ve made is to undercoat the bottom ready for some anti fouling to go on when she’s outside. There’s also a few fibreglass repairs that are going to happen to her sheathing. Here’s the old blue top, and new grey bottom:

Here’s me stirring some polyurethane paint. We have gone through a lot of this stuff so far on the bilges and other areas inc the deck:

Here’s the starboard side deck with a first coat of grey on. I’ll be reseating the stanchions at some point soon so they’re a little more solidly mounted.

Here’s Lorraine stood up on the deck for a bit of scale:

We’ve been messing around with little jobs at home while it’s been trickier to get over with day work, here are some little steps we’ve made to replace the ones that were in (there was nothing wrong with the existing ones, they were just a little too large for what we have planned for the galley:

Here’s a couple of other jobs, a saloon table that’ll be fitted on a detachable post near the L shape sofa and the cabin hatch doors have been stripped and varnished:

Lorraines’ been busy making the wood trim around the cockpit look a bit more mahogany like:

Here’s a quick before and after of the cabin hatch doors:

Lorraine’s hand sanding of the rear cockpit trim ready for varnish:

Here’s Lo with a classic varnishing pose – this is a screen shot from an Instagram story – you can follow our progress via @hashrob

Mum and dad also popped down from Yorkshire for a visit too, the first time they’d seen the boat in person. It was a really sunny weekend in September. Here they are in the boat yard: