Change of Plans

After much measuring and re-measuring we've decided that it would be impossible to fit a full gas cooker into Crocus. So it was back to the drawing board and the new plans are this ...

Removing the cooker from the cabin means that we can now have a cool box and extra storage in its place. Once the decision was made we were back online to find a two-burner hob and grill which will go in the locker where the original one had been. We found a very good price for a Plastimo Neptune 2500 and so we immediately placed an order and it arrived very promptly ...

Filling

The hull has a few places where some filling is required.

Crocus must have been moored alongside for quite a while and without fenders to protect her because she has some damage ...

which needed sorting ...



Once the hull is painted it will be as good as new!

Gas Locker

The interior design for Crocus is such that the gas bottle locker has to be moved from the foredeck and will be re-housed in an aft locker. In order to give us six foot berths we need to have trotter boxes and the port side was blocked by the gas locker.

The hatch cover of the locker ...

and the gas bottle locker itself ...


Locker now removed ...

Gas vent before and after ...


The hole in the hull has been plugged and filled and the hole in the foredeck will be repaired and finished when the decks are covered.