When I first bought the boat, I hadn’t realised how damaged it actually was. Shock. Horror. More specifically, the previous owner had unfathomably cut away the top of the transom, and had increased the size of the engine bay entrance, among other inexplicable holes around the boat which I wrote about here.
Spring was springing, there was a renewed enthusiasm for working on the boat. Not that I’d lost any enthusiasm mind you, but winter was cold, dark, very wet and depressing. The decision was made to finally try and repair some of the biggest issues on the boat, of which there were many. I’d been avoiding them like the plague, mainly because it involved using actual fibreglass and not just fibreglass filler. As it turned out, I did a pretty decent job of the transom. By Beasty standards anyway.
There were a few Beasty fuck ups though, I still haven’t learned to obey “measure twice, cut once”. I also got started on building a frame around part of the engine bay with the vision of building a bench over the gaping hole.
