The new boathouse ramp

Now that the work on the promenade at Whitley Bay has been completed, we have access to our boathouse again.  With its new ramp and brickwork it was about time the insides were spruced up, so Hannah, Chris and Geoff spent a dusty hour on Sunday scraping all the flaking paint (probably dating from the 1950s) off the walls ready for it to be given a new bright white coat of paint to improve the lighting in there.

Inside the boathouse

Joe has also been busy replacing both the male and female showers and shower trays.  The old showers had served us for 8 years, but were starting to wear out and only had two temperatures: freezing or scalding.  The new showers maintain a comfortable temperature for showering after a cold session in the sea.

We also have new comfortable chairs courtesy of the Premier Travel Inn on Newcastle Quayside, along with a some nice thick carpets to be laid in the training rooms.  

All of these improvements should mean that our beach base remains habitable until (hopefully) we can build our own new facilities.