I've enjoyed the 1st season with "Wear" but have laid her up for her winter refit. Jobs planned are:- Strip her down and give her a jolly good clean which I began today, reduce the size of the seperator by half and make up new steam pipes etc., repair steering lines to wheel and improve the system, replace steel funnel with aluminium, improve whistle lanyard arrangement, make a skin fitting for seperator overboard discharge, service boiler clack v/v, re-seat engine on plate with silicon sealer to make oil baths for big ends and eccentrics, make boat hook, mop, plank and stowing brackets for canopy top. All followed by touch up of cream paint and flatting down and re varnishing hull.
Jerry.