coalnotdole

Well..... 3.1/2 year thread bump required I guess! I still have the boat, The engine went back together ok and I last ran it up and moved the boat onto a different mooring about 8 months ago (to make space for a paying customer on the pontoon mooring I was previously on). Two years ago I bought a house which has turned into something of an epic project (Built in 1776 and bodged up repeatedly ever since) so a lot of my time has been involved in rebuilding walls and foundations using expensive odd sized bricks and lime morter and making up replica 17th century oak frames and wrought iron leaded casement windows. As well as that one of my previous relationships got rekindled and survived about two years before crashing and burning again which took up a lot of my energy and then afterwards left me a bit broken and on AD's for about six months. The Boat has been sat looking a bit forlorn during this process - the plan has always been to get the house to a stage and then spend a summer working on the boat to finish the main outstanding jobs and then probably look to sell it on as I don't have the need for it or the time to maintain it really. which summer that will be I'm not sure as its slipped twice already! Since the last post on this thread I did make up and install the aft/rear bulwarks and make up all the stainless knees for the forward ones. Main outstanding jobs really are forward bulwarks, cockpit floor, refit the stanchions/handrails around the edge of the deck and fit the upper rubbing strake. I have all the materials for those jobs already stored away ready so its just a case of time and weather really. Hopefully I'll manage a photo update at some point before the next 3 years! Cheers, Dave

Orange Enfield is still tucked away in the facebay tin shed awaiting its turn to come into the workshop and be operated on, Ive bought a few bits and pieces for it as and when I've seen them crop up on eBay but that's about it, Indicator light units and stuff like that. The White Enfield is still sat at the back of my mates unit although I think is about to be moved into a lockup garage he has in order to make some space for machinery reorganisation in the unit. I've not yet removed the bumpers and bits I want off of it but at the moment it looks like he'll be keeping it as a long term project so there's not an imminent rush to strip the bits off (he's got various metros, ldv's and other assorted tat to complete first before thinking about enfield) Thats about it really for the moment! Dave