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- There was a lot of painting going on today. The Groat dinghy received another coat of green, a set of oars received another top coat of white and more white paint went on to Laverne.Elsewhere several more florescent roof lights were replaced with new LED units. The roof lights replaced last week were fortuitously immediately above […]
- Using a grant from the North Highland Initiative we are replacing all our old florescent lighting (a lot which have already failed) with new LED lighting. Not only are the new LED lights brighter they also use less electricity so are cheaper to run.In between moving boats to allow access for the scaffold tower restoration work […]
- OHBS is working with Soulisquoy Printmakers on a project focusing on maritime names; boat names, names of boat parts, equipment names and traditional printing techniques. Today a group of OHBS volunteers visited the Soulisquoy Printmakers workshop in Stromness to kick-off the project.The introductory session included a demonstration of working with their old Columbian Press.
- A busy day moving boats around so that we have space for the scaffolding to allow us to get on with replacing some of the internal lighting units and also move some boats to another storage location.