Going to try to get my stuff about the Folkboat restoration on here now that things have settled down a little. Stuff worked out this summer so that I could rescue her from being lost for back storage fees. Since the adoption started for Silas all our money went that way for a while. Our grandson was more important than the boat. But now that it's over and all is well with him I was fortunately able to spend a couple weeks doing some much needed work to her deck, cockpit, hull and mast. In fact I was able to varnish and re-rig the mast totally.

A good friend from a few years ago offered me a great storage place in his yard with a shop! Thank God for good friends! Now "Catherine" will be safe and sound. Hope to hit the wooden boat show there next June.

Did some refastening at the floor timbers, added some new plugs in some old screw holes where they were leaking and did a lot of cleaning inside and out.
Did a major repair to the forward deadwood at the mast step. She was leaking bad there the first year I owned her. Looked like an old poorly done repair had come loose. Drew her back together from the inside and tightened up the keel bolts a little. Don't think they'd been touched for many years.
Installed her new rebuilt slider hatch, reset the mast step, replaced her stop waters, and removed some of her cockpit woodwork for refinishing next year.