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I have up to date contact details for Lady Helena's owner if it helps?

Howard's picture shows Lady Helena, a close cousin to Lady Ursula but with a different internal layout. Lady Helena has her galley and toilet aft with a small double berth in the nose. Thrilled to hear that Lady Ursula is out there somewhere. Is she still in Norfolk?

Someone else said three as well but there is definitely only two on site and it ain't deep enough for the other to not be visible if it had gone down. Maybe it was moved last night?

It's also not very deep there....

Oops

Then he'll be full of fluid of some sort as well

Those were the days....

I've gotta get me one of those

Next stage is to introduce more bracing to hold the frames as rigidly as possible. You don't want to be launching a boat that is longer one side than the other (and yes, there are a few out there!) I may have likened our finished structure to the Gt Yarmouth wooden roller coaster we had so much wood inside I've also been asked about our overhead crane. It's an amazing piece of kit, one of four originally installed when the yard was built and kept going through a combination of parts raided from the other out of service cranes and Robins sheer determination. In its heyday there was a man in the cab full time but now it's operated remotely from the workshop floor. We'd be lost without it and...... three days ago....... Robin broke it Oops, can someone clever turn the first and third pictures the right way up please (Mr Grendel sir)

Frame No1, well frame A to be precise Working backwards each frame is teased into position And secured to our existing strong back framework And the shape starts to appear All the way to the transom As each frame is positioned a careful eye is kept on our plumb-bobs to make sure nothing moves or twists out of alignment So far so good!

With our keel nicely held in all the right places and after a cuppa, to allow the stress levels to return to normal, it was time to move onto the next stage. Wooden boats have frames stationed at intervals along their length. These frames dictate the shape of the hull. First we draw out the frames, one by one, full size on our lofting boards and then construct each frame exactly to the full size drawing, laying each piece out to ensure accuracy. Starting at the pointy end.... And then moving back one frame at a time Getting near the transom now. You can see the way the hull shape changes as we go The oak we have been supplied has been absolutely excellent but even then you still have to be aware of any bits not up to standard Eventually we end up with a full set ready to be united with our suspended keel Let the fun begin

The last time we bought Raisena south she ran aground/hit something passing Yarmouth yacht station. That was 2022, she didn't come south last year.

And the southern rivers still drain out efficiently. We went from flooded to normal levels in 48hrs. In fact the only way onto one of the boats was to climb on the roof which was level with the quayhead. A few days ago that same quayhead was underwater.

A certain red headed young lady, known in certain circles for her love of the underneath areas of wooden boats, managed to dip her entire ponytail in a tub of black antifoul as she moved along the hull. Some of us still remember the scream...