Dry weather ideal for annual maintenance

One has to take advantage of this dry West Cork weather at the moment to do that necessary annual varnishing and maintenance of the wooden boats in our care.
With a few days of special care per year these boats will still be sailing off the west cork coast when we are long gone... hope fully they'll remember us - the mad boatbuilders of West Cork!

We have managed to fit three of the Ettes ( all built by us) into our workshop, as well as their spars.
To create optimal curing conditions for the varnish, we heat with two ceramic infrared heaters.

Creating optimal varnishing conditions can be challenging - so we pack as many boats into the shed as possible to take full advantage of it.

Varnishing spars. The mast to the right is that of Happy Return ( our Stella One Design)