Eventfull week.

'Warrior' shown being lifted by the 70 tonne hoist,quite a scary time seeing your home being moved into the air!

Trying to get everything organized has been quite stressful. Having spent the best part of two days laying under 'Warrior' cleaning off all the sea life that the pressure washer could not reach, the enormity of the task ahead became very clear.Although not hard work in its self, there is just so much area to prepare,it makes for very long & tiring days.

I bought a floor scraper,attached to a four foot long handle, along with a car creeper, allowing me to lay under the barge,which is just over two feet off the ground. Over the two days, I worked my way from bow to stern,going over the area four times in order to scrape off as much as I could; you can se in the above picture just how bad the underneath was covered. It was whilst underneath,I decided to look around for a shot blaster to clean off the waterline. A suitable blaster was found via a mate of my brother in law & arrangements were made for the job to be done,a job that had never been allowed by the boat yard owners, due to the close proximity of some very expensive boats; this only added to our stress!