Bath stairs and jetty

Another small project before this summer season, bath stairs and jetty looked like it had seen its better days. Unfortunately over the years there has been both teak oil as teak lacquer as protection, this year we have tried to refurbish it from scratch!

First off with all old varnish, then clean the teak in two steps. And now, the final step with oil. And the wood is really soaking the oil! Products bought from Motonet and worked really nice!

Our boat look very sad without the jetty I must say.

The footsteps to the bath stair, quite an improvement!

And here's the jetty, before and "after" (still oiling it, it still soak in a lot)

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Number two: Delilah

A Skäreläja in average condition and with an old engine would approximate cost around 10.000€ - 15.000€ (back then in the early 2000's and now in 2020). That was out of my budget, but the Skäreläja boat type is not the only choice on the Swedish West Coast. There are others, like Marstrands snipa, Nicanders' snipa and Gullholmesnipan for example. The Gullholmesnipan had to different versions, one open as my previous one and one with a build similar to Skäreläja. I managed to get one older Gullholmesnipan in plastic, and a wooden build. My plan was to renew both all wooden parts as also the old engine (this time it was Albin 011). However, one year later my life took another turn, from Marstrand on the Swedish West Coast to Finland and the Gulf of Finland. A couple of months after our move, the new owners had a disastrous incident when the engine boiled. But like Skäreläja, an upgraded Gullholme snipa is also coveted and valuable. As you see, it clearly reminds of a Skäreläja. ...

The new dashboard

With a new engine there also came some new instruments to the dashboard. Luckily we could just change the old ones to the new ones without changing too much. Before After

Seaborn

And once again we're seaborn! Because of the COVID-19 situation, our Captain Keijo did all the work himself! The crew embarked later in the evening, with lots of joy!

Vera - LLV (Laurinlahden Venekerho)

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