The first two photos are of the condition of the starboard side locker fronts were before they were removed from Chance's main cabin at the beginning of the restoration when we were removing as much as possible to lighten Chance for her delivery home to Essex.
You can see that the interior was in a tried condition and the varnish work had lost a lot of its shine.
Fast forward three years and with a lot of pain-taking work and remaking broken or missing or rotten parts we have been able to rebuild much of what was lost over time.
This bit was the hanging locker front at the aft end of the main cabin to hang your foul weather clothes.
Here is complete starboard side locker front now rebuild and ready for the restoration team to do their magic with the varnish brushes and give the complete frontage its many coat of varnish, so it will be ready to refi when the rest of the major hull repairs are done.
This photo shows the hanging locker door sitting in the opening to show how much as been done so far. The Other doos which make up the fronts are currently in the varnish area getting their further coats to bring them up to the same level as the rest of the varnished parts we have already done and put away in storage for the time being.
The aft cabin hatch now repaired and getting its first coats of varnish in over 20 plus years that I know of. This will be the way the exterior of the boat will look from now on, Varnished very part above the deck level and the hull be painted white
Before the hatches restoration
After and now it is varnished once more and the way it will stay from now on.
The two photos now are of the cockpit hatch which as been completely rebuild by one of the restoration team members and carefully rebuilding the hatch in the same method that was used almost eighty years ago when it was made at James A Silver boatyard at Rosneath.
