June 30th

We have arranged to hire the dry dock at Taylor's Boatyard, Chester next week in order to repaint the boat.  Of course the weather immediately turned to rain, scuppering our good intentions to get on with scraping off the rust and sanding down the paintwork, etc.

Roger angle-grinding the roof

However Saturday and Sunday were good days and we have put in a lot of hard work - there's an awfully large surface area on the boat (700sq ft approx)

The new seats, resplendent
 in pink undercoat

Our new colour scheme is to be green sides and a burgundy red roof, and we had undercoat specially (and expensively) mixed to match the red -supposedly.  When we opened the tin we were taken aback to find it was cerise pink! Hopefully it will look OK in the end