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- OHBS recently received a significant grant from the North Highlands Initiative to enable us to replace all our internal fluorescent lighting with more efficient LED lights. About a quarter of our 45+ fluorescent units had failed anyway and now that it is no longer possible to obtain replacement fluorescent tubes in the UK it was time […]
- Now that all the wood work on the Groat dinghy has been finished we could move on to the next stage – painting. The painting crew started with a survey of the boat to figure what work was needed, what needed masking off and what colours to use.Painting continues on the elliptical stern yole Laverne and work […]
- OHBS has acquired a Light Speed Boat built by Duncan's at Burray in the 1930's. This boat doesn't have a name so it will be known as "Light Speed Boat". Length 13' 6" and beam 4' 5". More information here
- Discussions on what goes where inside Laverneand painting on Laverne.In another part of the workshop we removed some redundant chiller ducking to allow us better access to the service space between the floors. The service space is only about 1m between the floors and full of cabling, piping and large ducking so a bit of […]