Well, we've sandblasted the hull and everything looks fabulous! Now that Monarch is nice and smooth the painting takes far less time and the finish will be amazing!
Work starts now to re-fair the hull and begin the laborious task of 5 coats of primer, followed by 3 coats of undercoat and 4 coats of topcoat....plus a good 6 coats of black tar and antifoul below the waterline! As you can see....rust aint welcome on monarch!!
We have taken down the wall in the switchroom to make the engine room more accessible and visable for passengers, a new wall will go into the saloon with larger windows to make the steam engine far more of a centrepiece as until now she has been mainly ignored by many of the punters!
More wonderful news is that a small ships telegraph...or more precisely an engine room repeater is to be installed for the 2009 season to give the boat a lovely ring-a-ding-a-ding sound!!
2009 passengers will see a huge imrprovment to the previously rather tired engine room and wee look forward to some feedback from it.
I notice that the blog is being read by quite a few people now, and would really like it if some of you would introduce yourselves by replying to my posts...it would make writing these things far more interesting from my point of view!
Ohh, and if you want to volunteer on the Monarch for next year's season, please send your details through to info@medinamonarch.co.uk and you can be added to the list!
Hope to hear from you all soon!!
The Skip
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