The latest news from a busy
Cotehele Quay.
- After a final check for size and a layer of ‘black butter’ the fitting of Shamrock's covering boards has been completed.
- Her bulwark stanchions have been through bolted into place.
- The sheer strake and top hull plank has been marked to insure the shutter plank nails are driven into solid wood thereby missing any existing metal fastening.
- The starboard forward shuttering plank has been steamed, temporarily clamped into place and allowed to cool. Once released the set of the curve is clearly visible. Shutter planks are the strake of planks below the sheer strake and the last to be fitted shutting up the hull.
- Shamrocks new deck timbers have been moved to the boat shed to dry ready for cutting and shaping.
- ‘Nancy Belle’, with the first of her river trips due in April, has been hauled into the boat shed and is having a lick of paint and some minor alterations ready for the new season.
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