Getting there!

NOW - we're getting there ! The final undercoats before the addition of the waterline,etc.

We have James (Toronto)with us now and with Brent (Colorado) have gone to great efforts to get this done - great work - and ...the "Madoc" looks great!

Workshop tent up now.MUCH better!!

This is our board planer for the mast timbers - 12" wide! Made up from a planer thicknesser unit - a lot less expensive than a commercial board planer (at £1,200 )!!and - it works!!

The night the generator broke down!!

Our custom made fridge has finally arrived.With the door off a domestic "tabletop" fridge it all looks real good.With inside of our fridge wider than the door there's almost the same capacity as a under worktop fridge!It remains now to fit it all together.

Rain.........

Well - rain stopped all the real progress this week,We couldn't get the hull ready for the last grey undercoat to go on this Sat/Sun.
Ugh!
Not to worry - we started erecting the new "workshop" marquee.Much, much better than the old tent which the gales ripped apart.

75% of hull sanded - almost there!

We fitted the new washing machine - quite a job- a little trickier than in the kitchen... and 30" off the floor (sole!).

The drier was far easier though.

Also fitted the saloon fan heater and the bass speaker - the start of our integrated suround sound system !!! The Reflex horn is yet to be fitted.

The glue finally arrived ! So we managed to glue another two scarphs this weekend. That makes the four, square corner pieces for the main mast complete.

Next to sort the timber out for the fore and aft pieces` and scarph them.Then the port and st'b timber boards and scarph them.

After that plane and square edge ALL the scarphed board lengths ready for shaping the mast tapers.

No new pics for this weekend - lots of work accomplished but.....same ol' stuff !
Hull sanding is coming along fine,
Seating area sole bolted down permanently - ready for the seating framework.
FOUR more mast scarphs sawn and faced off .... but the glue didn't turn up in Friday :-(
so we couldn't glue the last remaining corner posts for the main mast.
Not to worry - they will be done during next week fer sure!
Fridge interior arrived and was test fitted to make sure it was just right - that's been taken back now to fit the shelves,etc.The ply outside carcass (fridge) and compressor are all ready in the galley.
The last two battery main cables are fitted, ready for the last two batteries to complete the bank.

Saloon seating/table area.

Major effort this weekwas clearing the saloon ready to start the seating carcass.

Watch this spot!

More scarphs!

The shed's never long enough !!

Facing off the rough saw cut with the router and sliding jig.

Sawdust flying everywhere!

Two more scarphs

And - another two!

Two more complete pairs of scarphs have been cut and faced off with the router and jig.More resorcinol glue will be with us next week (after payday!!)During the week we will cut the last two scarphs which will complete the four corner posts.Next will be to saw and plane these to the finshed sizes.

The fore,aft and side planks will be next to scarph.