8th December 2009

Removed some more railings from the South end of the veranda with the help of the working party so the new section can be tied in to the old. Cyril comes up with another good solution to beefing up this corner by extending the new handrail support timber right back to the longitudinal main beam and we've got a piece of timber that will do the job.

As there is a winter talk the working party is deployed to pass all the 5 metre oak out from the club room onto newly installed joists on the veranda extension. As there's probably 5 tonnes of oak it's getting a load test....of course nothing moves, not even a faint creak.

In the afternoon float the upper float under the ramp and wait for high tide. At the top of the tide the edge of the float is just touching the under side of the ramp and providing no lift at all. Stretch a rope down the access ramp and note that to bring it up to a constant slope the middle hinge needs to be lifted by 90cms. Though Walcon can adjust the freeboard of their pontoons using rods to drop the float downwards relative to the deck, I can't believe that they can be dropped almost a metre using that technique.