Elise Boat Work Day - by Serge

Serge did three things

1. He sanded and applied a first coat of marine varnish to the traveler wooden plank on Elise, the last bit of wood that needed to be treated outside the boat (note we need to do woodwork about once every couple of years, and that was moved from once a year by the use of the boat cover!)
2. Replaced the 'padding' for the rail crew
3. Replaced the broken sheet bag in the cockpit (we use it to stuff spinnaker sheets during the upwind and jib sheets during the downwind to free up space in the cockpit making it also safer to move around. We don't do this around the buoys as we would spend our time putting the sheets in the bag and taking them out :))

Thank you so much Serge - this is wonderful work.

We typically need to apply two coats of varnish for it to last the full two years, so Serge will come back to do that. The inside of the boat still has this wonderful smell of fresh varnish and happy wood!

[[posterous-content:pid___0]] The work bench[[posterous-content:pid___13]] The tools[[posterous-content:pid___12]] The sanding [[posterous-content:pid___2]] The new sheet bag[[posterous-content:pid___3]] From another angle and ready to be used this weekend for the crewed lightship race[[posterous-content:pid___4]] Its brother, the old sheetbag, hanging on the port side[[posterous-content:pid___5]] The twins[[posterous-content:pid___6]] The artist[[posterous-content:pid___7]] The lunch[[posterous-content:pid___9]] The chemical[[posterous-content:pid___10]] The magic touch[[posterous-content:pid___11]] The painting[[posterous-content:pid___1]] The padding