After such a long time, Mai Star II is finally in the Grey Shed and out of the weather and can get started on.

 Now after other projects have been finished and boats that have been clogging up the yard because their owners had not worked on their boats it was time to sort out the yard so that Mai Star II could be put where she had been needed to be put for such a long time under cover and be able to be worked on.

The place where Mai Star II hd been for the past years is now got an Enterprise dinghy in its place, this Enterprise is in for some TLC before being put up for sale to aid the restoration of Mai Star II.

 

The grey shed now as the repaired cover over it again after a long time as it needed to be repaired as it spilt along the centre line along the peak of the roof. The preair was much cheaper than getting new cover and will help give us more funds to get the restoration of Mai Star II underway again. We know that in time we will will have to replace the roof, however, in the meantime as long as we look after the cover it should last a a good long while over the summer.

 The small cover at the front end is more to keep the sun off the transom and keep the shed cool in the summer, We are going to fill the ends in over the summer with plywood and a set of plywood doors which will be better for working in the shed over the winter months , however, over the summer it is not such a problem as we need to keep the shed cool.

 

Mai Star II is now shored up and leveled up, just got to put in some extra chocks to stop the hull from twisting out of shape as we put the new frames and ribs back in her over the coming months as we get rebuild to put her up for sale to add funds to put in to the Chance restoration funds.

It took a lot of muscle power and brain storming and a lot of experience of boat moving with little equipment other than chain blocks and metal rollers and finally the help from a fork liif to put her in the finished position in the grey shed.

In this shed there is enough room to work round the hull at over angles and also enough height to work on the deck and put the cabin sides and cabin rook back on her when it is time to do that part of the restoration.

 There even enough room to put the Mai Star Class dinghy in the shed while we make room in the main workshop to put her and the Enterprise in once the Morgan Giles 30 comes out and they can be worked on and the Enterprise is put up for Sale and the Mai tar Class is given a bit of TLC so that she can be used this summer to explore the local back waters of the Walton Backwaters close to my Workshop and Yard.

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