Other progress in December 2021

 

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 with recovering internal soft furnishing.

All this, plus undertaking many other smaller jobs, staying on the boat for four nights in mid December, was taxing and tiring work.  But it had it compensations: