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Down to the last few timbers and an interesting find from the splintered timber frames.
But first, the first sighting of an entirely new sport - wind skateboarding - ever inventive, but just who is the mystery skater on the prom?
Sunday and Monday saw Trewarveneth reduced to a small pile of smashed timbers.
Just the keel remains largely in one piece. Breaking up the frames.
Concrete ballast was difficult to remove from between the bilge area of the engine and fishroom frames. Loading the lorry with pieces of the hull.
Looking down the length of the remaining keel.
The huge stern post remains intact.
One way to move a skip.
Almost at the accommodation bulkhead.
'Maverick' secures a full load of boat timber.
Breaking up the remaining engine room bilges.
One of the engine beds, they came out in one piece.
All that remained on Sunday morning, the stern section containing the accommodation.
'Mav' supervises from the back of the lorry.
Among the smashed bow frames in the bilges, a mystery coin. Was this coin, a 1905 penny (perhaps the year the boatbuilder was born) placed there for luck, a common practice? If the penny had dropped in the bilge it would surely have corroded completely and been worn smooth over the years. Either way, the coin will be a suitable memento of time spent with the vessel for one ex-skipper.
Berthed near the Cornish Ice Company, the Bryan D Stevenson is the next boat in the fleet due to go under the breakers torch.
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