Finally a sunny spring may 2023

Here we are again! I concluded the previous blog with “in the meantime we are waiting for stable sunny and dry weather….” Well, that has gotten a whole lot better as of this writing than last week! The months of April and May are usually all about sanding, priming and painting, but it's now some sanding between showers and that's it. The car crane has been sanded in any case last week and has been in the primer together with the cuckoo since today.

Our gangway is stolen!
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