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- OHBS is working with Soulisquoy Printmakers on a project focusing on maritime names; boat names, names of boat parts, equipment names and traditional printing techniques. Today a group of OHBS volunteers visited the Soulisquoy Printmakers workshop in Stromness to kick-off the project.The introductory session included a demonstration of working with their old Columbian Press.
- A busy day moving boats around so that we have space for the scaffolding to allow us to get on with replacing some of the internal lighting units and also move some boats to another storage location.
- OHBS recently received a significant grant from the North Highlands Initiative to enable us to replace all our internal fluorescent lighting with more efficient LED lights. About a quarter of our 45+ fluorescent units had failed anyway and now that it is no longer possible to obtain replacement fluorescent tubes in the UK it was time […]
- Now that all the wood work on the Groat dinghy has been finished we could move on to the next stage – painting. The painting crew started with a survey of the boat to figure what work was needed, what needed masking off and what colours to use.Painting continues on the elliptical stern yole Laverne and work […]