Lazaway Life

  Our visit in mid December also allowed us to undertake many other smaller jobs. The picture above, of the stern of Lazaway, illustrates three of them. We winterised the tender by taking off the outboard and fitting the tender cover and stowing the lot a little more snugly than previously.  We also removed a stainless steel satellite dish holder (a substantial contraption) which we are not going to use, that had been fitted on the outside of the stern spray dodger on the flybridge deck. This gives the boat a much cleaner look from behind.  You might also notice that the stern name board is missing. This is because we took all three name boards off to refurbish at home. The teak needs to be sanded and varnished, and the stainless lettering needs to be polished. The spray dodgers around the flybridge (the Lazy Deck) and the aft deck (the Sports Deck) are at the end of their life and need to be replaced. We have commissioned Octagon Marine to do this work (in sand coloured canvas) along

  Mid December 2021, almost exactly one month after taking ownership (on 15th November), we had our first opportunity to start some of the renovations that we want to undertake before bringing Lazaway back to Northern Ireland in the spring of 2022. We have a long list of things to do.  Our major priority was to commission some of the work that is to be undertaken by suppliers in Plymouth. This includes refurbishment of the teak decks. Fortunately Lazaway, being a Grand Banks, was built with substantial thickness of teak on her decks and so there is some latitude to allow these to be sanded back and made to look beautiful again. Here are a couple of pictures to show the current state of the teak and the caulking, which in many places is standing proud: Another important issue that needs looking at is the state of the sea cocks located below the waterline. There are 10 of these and most cannot be closed, and several are obviously in a poor state of repair. One of them simply cannot be ac