Demolition

It's Monday March the 6th and work starts straight away. We're due to head off to the dry docks in 2 weeks time and there's a lot of ripping out to be done. Firstly all the stuff needs taking out and storing, then we can start dismantling all the old fixtures and fittings, luckily the chefs are here to help and what a great team they are too. I have about a weeks worth of work for them, but they seem to plough through it all in just 2 days. We are all amazed at just how much rubbish is made with the skip being needed to be emptied regularly.

I thought that maybe I should store all of the wine at my house for safe keeping but had a reality check as I knew that there is no way that I could trust myself with all of those filthy old reds, try explaining that one! Instead our wine suppliers Great Western Wine based over in Bath have ideally conditioned storage and offer to pick it all up and keep it all in safe hands, what service!

Once the kitchen has gone, all the wiring and plumbing removed, the old loos excavated all that remains are the rocks. Little did I know but there is about 2 tonnes of rocks under what was the toilets, acting as ballast to counter act the weight of the kitchen at the other end of the boat, bloody miracle we never sunk. With the kitchen gone, all the rocks all need moving to the center of the boat in order to maintain balance, crucial for when we actually set sail. Another job for the chefs who are now labeled the S.S.S. ('serious shit shifters') If it needs moving they can do it.

Soon the boat is empty and looking incredibly sad, I can hardly imagine it as a restaurant either in the past or in the future, all that's left to do is draw up the gang planks and prepare for voyage.