Calshot (above): Every five months or so 40.001, Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde, is slipped on a Sunday mid-day tide to be cleaned below the waterline. Crew and helpers rally round and she comes out at about 0900 and is back again by 1500, only six hours out of service at a time when local weekend rescue organisations are most available.

Besides cleaning off and anti-fouling, the sacrificial plates are usually replaced and the opportunity taken to polish the hull, paint the boot top and rub down and varnish all woodwork awkward to get at when she is at her moorings..