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I’ve seen the future, and it’s an Arklow Future.Looks quite green as well!

It looks the same as the last picture, I know, but this is the deck after another coat of red primer.The first coat was just single pack primer, painted simply to prevent the rust busting effort from going to waste with the rain looming.This red is the…

I saw these guys going past the other weekend.I can’t help but wonder what happened there.Whatever it was, it looks expensive!

I know I’ve done a lot of waffling on this blog recently, but work on the old girl has been plodding on.Here you see the recently completed rust busting on the last bit of deck left exposed after the wood had been hacked off last year.Just as the paint…

I’m starting work on the ‘fishing Lady Jane out of the water’ project.This is her last time she was properly taken out, by her previous owners.First things first, I need to get my hands on some docking plans, as the yard need that for a safe haul out.I…

So here is the crane that had been loaded onto that truck a few hours previously.They had made it round a left hand bend then a right hander at the lights, where it fell off. Right by the bus stop and not far from where it had previously been moored al…

The other weekend, on the Friday, I watched this crane being removed from it’s barge.It had been moored upriver from the Northam bridge for quite some time.The crane, asides for it’s tracks, is remarkably similar to the crane on the barge next to me. T…

This weekend marks the seventh year I’ve now had Lady Jane.Obviously there have trials and tribulations along the way.Overall though, it’s been a lot of learning and a lot of fun.

I’ve been away travelling again.Just back today.Updates soon..

Here is the Strenuous.She came by on Saturday, on her way to the public slip just opposite me.I must say, although she looks somewhat of a project, her engine sounded fine. More than I can say for poor Lilagina next to me, who’s engine no longer runs d…