Saturday 11 April 2009

Getting Grubby on Scarlet

What a busy week we've had! Scarlet came out of the water on Tuesday, and by the end of the week she had transformed. I've had Carie Biggs and Dave Wright helping me out for the week, and little did they know when they signed up for it, but it ended up being a very messy week! We gutted poor Scarlet, and got right down into the deepest darkest depths of her bilges and gave her a good scrubbing. She also got a splashing of paint, Karen took the drag arm and emergency tiller off to get shot blasted, and got really excited with how shiney and new they looked afterwards. We eventually had to let Carie come up from the bilges for a bit of fresh air.... but that also came at a price. She then spent her valuable outdoor time sanding the keel! Ian Chesterton, the brave man, came in to help us out for a day - ON HIS BIRTHDAY!!!! Happy Birthday Ian, and thanks again for your help :)

Everyone at SYS have been amazing. Always willing to help us out, a friendly smile from every direction and of course a lot of good technical advice when ever needed. Thanks to Andy for driving the team forward, and to Leo and Rob for sorting out all the mechanical bits and pieces. Lisa for helping me find and order bits and pieces, andChris and Jim from Solent Shipwrights have been brilliant at being leak detectives and sorting out the toerails.

Wild Graphics arrived on Wednesday, and by Thursday afternoon Scarlet was almost completely transformed!!! She is now blue and white and logo-ed up... We'll have to get her some scarlet details for inside though... just to prevent her getting some kind of identity crisis!!!

We're all on a well deserved break for the Easter weekend after a hard week of work, but I'm really chuffed with the progress we've made, and looking forward to getting her back into the water next week and going for a little shake down sail to Cowes.

Happy Easter!!!!!
Cath

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