More windscreens!

Front view of the fitted Clearview rotating wndscreen and the portside opening windscreen.

Inside view of the two new window/screens fitted

Ready to fit the "clearview" rotating screen.

Goulven cleaning up the excess mastic

Inside view !

New Crew !

Well - we have a new crew helping out now - all three from France, friends of the Roi familly! Goulven,Jean-Babptiste (JB !!) and Vincent - all very enthusiastic and ready to work

Goulven marking out the areas that need filling and fairing.

Vincent taking it all very seriously!!

"JB" Starting to sand down the epoxy filler nice and "fair"!!

Overall view - fairing off coming along nicely!

NOT that bit..THIS bit !! LOL !! Dave showing JB what;s needed!!

Vince taking a look at all his work.

progress

Not much progres at the moment - recovering from a total knee replaement !! So many painkillers - when I hobble around I swear I rattle !! lol!!

Cap Rail Varnishing.

we have 5 coats of progressivly thinned varnish on the cap rail at last - one coat of neat varnish ............looking good! 6 or more coats of neat varnish to go - the weather will dictate the scheduke!!

windshild started !

well - there are now at least 8 coats of varnish on the wheel-house - ready for the windows.First, central window is IN !!

Wheelhouse varnishing.

well..............people do ask...WHY..well..we have just had the wettest THREE MONTHS on record - and that's 100 freakin YEARS.

At last I have been able to give the wheelhouse some coats of varnish, one more this weekend and it will be ready fro installing the window system.at last.
It DOES look good!
The foremast is still coming along nicely too - part time working only - but coming along nicely.
The other project this year before it snows or whatever (!) is painting the hull - we may get it done yet - if the weather is good during August.
The scaffolding has been started !!!!

Foremast Construction

 I've  been scarphing,..........scarphing...........scarphing....and more ......scarphing -  the sitka spruce timber for the foremast ( 50"scarphs for the corner posts.)
All done !
NOW.....I am planing square all the scarphed planks, all day planing,all yesterday.....all today.........and all tomorrow .........and every evening of next week !!! planing.....planing....planing.................
After that will be cutting the rebates in the corner posts and bevelling the insdes of the corner posts.

First scarph - Foremast.

Here we go AGAIN !!! This is the first scarph of the construction of the foremast !!

Here , with the help of Lucho Roi and Elliott Hughes - the Main Mast is finally seeing the light of day and some fresh air !!Unfortunately you can't see the taper.The mast is tapered left and right and the foreward edge.The flat area (aft) is where the sail track will eventually sit.

Main mast

Main mast planed round - ready for sanding ! The red area shows the area the mast is hollow - solid in way of the truck,spreaders, boom and deck to mast-step.

Foremast is NEXT !!