Flamingo Restoration (Continued)

	"I now have a shipwright who has come to my rescue and is doing a number of the jobs for me at a very reasonable rate. What’s best is he’s agreed to let me work alongside him in order to learn the tricks of the trade - very useful for future repairs!!"
	"Once complete (early this summer) we’re off round the south coast for a bit of cruising and who knows..we may even make it to France".
	Steve and Laura are running a tough schedule to get her ready again for the water. For example Steve says: "To give you an idea, we have been working on her every weekend staying onboard on all but the coldest of nights. Unfortunately we live a two hour drive from Maldon so it's all or nothing which is good for the boats progress but bad for us in terms of comfort."
	Flamingo racing at Burnham in 2002