Category: HardyUpdate
Hardy 30-11-24
Hardy’s Bilge Pump: Now that winter is upon us we have a weekly checklist to keep Hardy safe and well till spring. Bilge pumps and mud were the key topic on Saturday! Here’s one of our volunteers, Chloie Green, who has a lot of boat working experience running through the workings of the main pump…
Hardy Prize Draw
Our Hardy prize draw closed this afternoon. We raised £434, 73% of our target of £600. BUT… actually we reached both our target of £600 AND our stretch target of £800 because we have received £70 in cash donations at the boatyard and a very special offer of help worth £375! So, a total of…
Hardy 9-11-24
We’ve reached the half-way mark with our crowdfunding prize draw to support the restoration of Hardy. And to cheer you on, here is a short video made for us by the talented Ollie of Banbury BID with incidental music by Dom Prag.
Hardy 2-11-24
The team hunting down a possibly leak: we’re really looking forward to buying those power tools and being able to start replacing planks! And we might need a few more brooms as well.
Hardy 2-11-24a
Please take a look at our prize draw fundraiser, enter to win a forge experience and share the Hardy love (and possibly the mud).
Hardy 24-10-24
Rounding off our videos of hemp rolling and caulking at canal weekend – Nathan and Jacob weighing with the (yes we know it’s not a caulking…) hammer and caulking iron!
Hardy 12-10-24
Here’s a bit more of last weekend’s canal festival and the demonstrations of caulking: Jacob learning how to tease out and roll hemp ready to pleat and then hammer it into the gaps between the planks of Hardy’s hull. With some sage advice on had from Ian Staples!
Hardy 9-10-24
A busy festival weekend in Banbury with all sorts going on including boat trips, a floating market, live music and more (not that yours truly got out of the dock to see any of it, but it was all there). Our wooden boat expert, Ian Staples was demonstrating caulking on Hardy. Here’s how it’s done…
Hardy 7-9-24
A messy session lead by Ian Staples: heated up the Charlie that we made a few weeks ago. Mixed it with Oakham and filled a troublesome hole up from the inside and outside of the boat.