19th of March and another day stripping Anne-Marie. Today the steps into the cabin collapsed so that’s important job to repair her next few days but I’m going to do is to take the remaining headliners down in the main cabin and in the other cabins to see what secrets line belief.
Well the main cabin headliner has come down with signs are very heavy damp and indeed as rotten as is the ceiling about it attract come out in the through cabin on the port side headlinerhas come out and is very rotten hopefully the deck beams are in good condition but is lots of rot wet rot hidden away.
It is clear that the main hatch has been leaking badly for a long time but it is also clear that there are leaks around the edge of the cabin roof and I’m going to find out about those when I start taking the trimming off from the outside later on this afternoon.
Looks like we might have to demolish The area beside the navigation table which will be a great shame and I’ll try very hard not to but we’ll see as far as the decks are concerned I’ve decided we’re going to take the masts off and then be able to have a completely clear deck to be able to strip the old plastic teak deck off and see what we have in its place but I suspect that we will have a plywood deck with a pathetic little sheathing area and the solution will be to dry it out and then she’s the lot properly we will see
Saving Anne Marie 