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This picture followed on from the previous page.



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Hello again,

 

Just curious, was she then picked up by crane and placed undercover?, it appears from the photos the slip way crade only goes so far on the rails,

 

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Hello John

This shot shows that a purpose built shed was built around her. Must have taken a slice out of the grant

 



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Hi Richard,

Many thanks for that, appears they did lift her clear of the cradle, as you say, putting up the shed must have cost a few pennies, pity there was no slipway with a shed already, very nice new one at Newsons yard, but in Lowestoft unfortunatley. Still, the main thing is she is being restored and as I said, we can all look forward to seeing her again post re-fit.

 

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Hello again John

I think that if you look carefully there are rails of some sort right up and into that shed - I am not sure though - maybe someone can enlighten us?

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Hi Ted,

 

Yes see what you mean, won't post further on this myself, not that important!

 

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To try and get back into some sort of sequence - here is an early shot of Medusa in the purpose built Shed with Decks stripped out.

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wow, she is having a lot of work done.Anyone know how long the aplication to the lottery took?
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Hello all,

 

Fantastic pictures as ever, what a major re-fit! though we at Medway Queen can talk, we are looking at a complete new hull. I can only imagine the lottery process took a long time, ours was on our third attempt, about two years in total by the time of our stage one pass in June and in fact today I got a call to confirm we have passed stage two and we will now move to sign a contract with the HLF.

 

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Christmas has given me a couple of days breathing space so I have added a bit to the Medusa website with a few pictures showing the project progress.  I still have a lot of info to put on the site but will have to replace my PC before I can do much more.

To answer a couple of questions, first we hauled Medusa up as far as she would go and had to extend one of the rails, however she is still on the cradle and was not lifted.  The tin shed was then built around her.  The grant process took just over two years, not including the project planning rant (PPG).  Once work starts you have to be able to fund approx two months cash flow from your own resources as HLF pay in retrospect, this came as a nasty surprise to us!

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