Our boats and our boatyard have got into a mess. The reason for this has been a combination of illness on my part, covid, and lack of volunteers after covid. Virtually all charities and voluntary groups are suffering from a lack of volunteers. Some have shut down because of it. Anyway, things are looking up. More volunteers are coming forward, longstanding problems with the boats are being addressed and messy corners full of random stuff are being cleared out.
Section by section Nessie and Aaron are clearing out Forget me Not's hold. This latest section was full of aluminium cans, drums full of brake disks for ballast and pitch for pitching seams. They were also tracking down a leak. The old shutts are coming up, as they're pretty rotten, and replaced, for the time being, with cut down pallets. Amazingly, nearly everything in there has a use, even if its only as scrap metal.
Thanks to Helen Kanes for the photos.
