ELLEN ROSE IS A CONTESSA 26 YACHT BASED ON THE RIVER BLACKWATER, ESSEX, ENGLAND. A FOLKBOAT DERIVATIVE DESIGNED BY DAVID SADLER AND BUILT BY JEREMY ROGERS OF LYMINGTON IN 1967.


Sunday, September 28, 2008

Summer's arrived


The weather was perfect, but we still did not manage to get all the work scheduled for the weekend done, happy enough with what we did mange to get completed though. This was mounting the mahogany switch panel box to the bulkhead, (screw and epoxy) and placing the new mahogany faced marine ply top to the chart table, again using epoxy. Also fix a couple of spot lights to inner bulkhead. pics

All templates pics and final cutting of ply were made up at home before transporting down to the boat In retrospect I would have had the boat transported home, as doing this refit is taking for ever. Measuring a piece of timber, cutting it, then taking it down to the boat only to find it needs another millimetre taken off for a perfect fit, taking it back home, and waiting a couple of weeks to fit it, is turning into a nightmare.