While the crew has been waiting for the tide to be right to finish laying the slipway track, the time has been used to collect the various sections of
Shamrock's cradle from Cotehele Quay boat yard and place them at the top of the slipway track. Next came the Chinese puzzle of assembling the cradle and it was discovered that the weld numbers on the various sections are not in order, but assembly was achieved successfully. The cradles old base timbers, which where rotten, have been renewed, levelled off and finally topped off with old railway sleepers on which
Shamrock will sit when she is hauled out. So much for August being a quiet month!
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| Cradle sections arrive. |
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| Cradle assembled. |
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| Re timbered and ready for Shamrock |
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