Almost there!
The boat is looking really great as you can see from the photo.
Outside painting is now complete.
We are meeting at 9am on Sunday 13th to continue with the final push. All welcome and bacon sarnies are on offer as an incentive!
Our first competitive outing will be the Anstruther muster on Monday 4th June. More rowers/volunteers still needed!
Progress Rport
Thanks to a super stint from Stewart Mackay and his boys, the intricate final bits of joinery work have been completed. The regular workers have been hard at it, and the boat has been painted inside, was turned over last night and the outside will be finished within the next 2 weeks. We intend to have some discrete trials before the official launch. A date for that will be announced soon when it will be officially named ‘Crail Partan.’
Fundraising has gone well and we have now paid for all the materials except for the last few pots of paint and still have £300 in the kitty! Further donations are always welcome as we will have some ancillary items to pay for. In this connection we are taking a stall at the harbour as part of Crail Food Festival on Sunday 17th June. Please let me know if you are available to help on that day.
Now that work is almost complete, we also need to look at our competitive programme.
We are also looking at either Dunbar on Saturday 25th August or North Berwick on 1st/2nd September.
Looking further ahead the World Skiff Championships will be in Ullapool from 8 – 14 July 2013.Most musters have various age group competitions for male/female and mixed competition over varying distances.
The emphasis is on having fun and we will be organising practice sessions at Anstruther. We are also looking for a couple of ‘lightweight’ people to get some training on coxing the skiff!
The boat has a name!
First. the coffee morning held on the 17th March raised the brilliant amount of £272.35. Thanks to everyone who helped out or attended.
The boat was on display outside the Legion Hall and many people entered the competition to name the boat.
The winner is “Crail Partan” and the successful winner will have the honour of performing the naming ceremony when the boat is finished. The names of those submitting the suggested boat names were kept secret from the judging panel to avoid favouritism but David Jerdan is “marginally embarrassed” that it was his own nomination that was eventually declared the winner.
Anyway, “Crail Partan” is now nearing completion and should be on the water shortly – just one more push to get us to bring the build stage of our project to conclusion.
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It now looks like a boat!
The skiff is really beginning to take shape now.
Keel laying this evening
Great progress is being made on the boat. These photos were taken this evening.
Progress
Good progress is being made with the skiff with the last of the planks making up the frame being glued and screwed into place at a work session last Tuesday evening.
The keel is now being shaped and the whole thing is now taking shape really well. At last we can see the makings of a boat.
A big thankyou to the building team.
