When I erected the shelter over Kyria I had to build it tight against the cradle on her starboard side as there was a working slipway on that side and I couldn’t put it any further over. This provided plenty of space for working on the port side, but no room whatsoever to work on […]
During the first phase of Kyria’s restoration I had laid a new marine plywood subdeck and covered it with epoxy and glass fabric in preparation for laying a teak deck. But that was as far as I got, and Kyria had been lying under cover for over 20 years since then.Over such a long period […]
If you have already read about the first phase of Kyria’s restoration then you may have noticed a mention that in hindsight the application of the epoxy fairing compound was a big mistake. Well, this is putting it mildly! I think the effort required to sand this fairing compound was one of the reasons (amongst […]
At the end of November 2016, I decided to restart Kyria’s restoration after a break of around 20 years. It felt like a lifetime ago when I had done all that work to her the first time around. I had often planned to restart, but between work and family life I never seemed to have […]
Update: A number of articles have now been posted and these can be found by clicking here.I will very shortly be commencing a series of articles with updates on the restoration of the Six Metre Kyria. These will be updated regularly as the work progresses (just as soon as I have finished updating the background […]