Sunday 16 May 2021

New Seats for the Fly Bridge - 14th May 2021

 Stage One of the major refit complete as the Fly Bridge seats were picked up and installed from PC Marine Cobbs Quay Poole. We are really pleased with the result it has really freshened up boat.

Fly Bridge seating 1992 style

Fly Bridge 2021 style

Really pleased with the black trim

A new set of seats

Rear panels fixed in place

Starting look all new 

Thursday 13 May 2021

Aft Seat Removal - 13th May 2021

 Spent a day at the boat removing aft seating ready to be dropped at Cobb's Quay tomorrow for re upholstery with Champagne Silvertex. Getting the rear bolster off wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be so pleased it was more straight forward than anticipated.

Aft seating out
Bit to clean up
Large bolster out
All a bit grubby after removal
All cleaned up, cant wait to get the new seating

Saturday 8 May 2021

Lining Out the upper Seating - 7th May 2021

 Beautiful Sunny Day so we headed to the boat for a day to complete the edge trimming and lined out the upper seating and midships locker with fire retardant lining carpet, later in the day we headed to the Trinity Light Ship for Dinner. 

One done one to go
Really pleased with the result
Finally sorted the lining up top
Zena looking stunning

Early dinner before it gets too cold

Great to be at the boat



Thursday 6 May 2021

New Black Edge Trim - 6th May 2021

 New Metal House Edging arrived so swapped the old discoloured grey trim for the new black edge trim making the lockers look like new.

New Trim to gas cabinet
Main locker with new trim


Monday 3 May 2021

May Bank Holiday at Haslar - 1st/3rd May 2021

 We headed to the boat for a long weekend and a chance to grab some pics of HMS Queen Elizabeth leaving Portsmouth Harbour. Managed to complete a few more repairs new nylon hinges, new gas struts and pivots points, new transom shower assembly.

HMS Queen Elizabeth leaving Portsmouth
Haslar Marina Entrance only visible on a spring tide

Harbour Patrol dwarfed by HMS QE

Radar Control
Crew all onboard as they depart the harbour

Dusk walk at Haslar

Haslar lake at low water

Haslar at Dusk


Spinnaker light up


Waiting Patiently for the moment

Zena and I braving the cold

HMS Queen Elizabeth leaving port