Photos courtesy of Joy Windle

These were taken on Sunday 30 October 2004

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Gavin and Ian working on the mast step (47 Kb)
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Mast step modified (49 Kb)
Deck and hatches
Deck and hatches (56 Kb)
Mast step
Mast step ( 46 Kb)
Ian tidying up his welding of the fuel tank vent.
Ian tidying up his welds on the fuel tank vent (38 Kb)
Fuel tank vent
Fuel tank vent installed (27 Kb)
Looking aft
Looking aft (53 Kb)
Wheelhouse
The wheelhouse (37 Kb)
View of wheelhouse interior
View of wheelhouse interior. (29 Kb)
Miles at the rudder
Miles tending to the freshly painted rudder (36 Kb)
Joy working on fuel tank top.
Joy with steel sheets for fuel tank (37 Kb)
Joy working on fuel tank top.
Joy and fuel tank components (34 Kb)
Gaving welding escape hatch.
Gavin welding escape hatch (34 Kb)
Ian with oxy equipment.
Ian and the oxy welding equipment (46 Kb)
Jeff at the handrails.
Jeff at the handrails. (52 Kb)
An unusual visitor.
A visitor, the Nankeen Night Heron. (52 Kb)
Water bird
Altho only a kilometer from the centre of the city we often see wildlife. (59 Kb)
An unusual visitor.
Close up (52 Kb)
Explorer
The Explorer (59 Kb)
Explorer.
Visitors walking to the Polly Woodside see this view of the Explorer (65 Kb)
Joy filing handrails
Joy working on handrails. (40 Kb)
Joy at the handrails
That loop presented difficulties, very hard to get the file onto some areas. (46 Kb)
Handrail loop.
Close up of half finished handrail loop, filed clean and bright by Joy. The loop is there to accept the spreaders when the mast is lowered. (32 Kb)
Handrails being refurbished
Handrails being refurbished. The old red paint has now been almost completely replaced with the green marine primer supplied by Wattyl Paints. (55 Kb)

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