So there you were thinking that I had given up and wasn’t doing anything with the boat. Not so! Inevitably work had slowed over the winter, what with the weather and all. But we have been making progress with the painting thanks to the amazing hard work of Led putting the hours with the paintbrush.

It is looking spiffing. The paint is quite a thick consistency so covers all the minor pitting and dinks excellently – like a good bottle of foundation one might say.