The facia for the heating radiators in the saloon being drilled and cut by James (Canada),behind these will be small computer type fans to give a gentle flow of hot air and dissipate the heat more efficiently.Covering the vents will be brass expanded grills.

Now ..... the carcassing of the saloon seating is almost finished ! It has taken a long time due to the complexities of the curves involved,strength maintained and a compartment for the freezer unit.

Start of the fitting of the bowthruster .. to seat the hydraulic motor mount neatly on the tube I chose a nrather quick setting "plastic steel" - 5 mins !!! wasn't enough time !! This wekend we have a 40 minute working time with another make .......we'll see !

We have at last marked in the water line !!!! had to wait quite a while for the wind to die - as it made the laser level shiver ! We were able to add the lower line of the boot top too.You can't see the laser line - but it's there!!

The upper line is a bit more tricky 1 and so far attempts at a smooth fair curve the length of the boat has not been successful - however ....!!! ... we are awaiting the dilivery of some rare earth magnets which we will glue to the plastic marking edge - hopefully we slide the edge around and get that fair curve!!!

well - the last few months have been interesting ! Ups and downs,things happening,problems and solutions !

My Laptop gave up the ghost some time back and with all my blog info on it - prevented updates!

The biggest "Down" has been the weather - wild wet and windy - as in gales>Our super workshop was flattened FOUR times in three weeks - disn't help matters or moral.

Thses pics show before and after.......multiplied by FOUR.

The fourth time was the last straw and we are eagerly awaiting delivery of a good sized portacabin soon - now THAT will be great!!!

Birthday !!

Well - it was Daves' birthday - and the boys dragged me much against my will ;-) LOL -around the "Packet" with my fav Brains SA ( "skull attack" !!) and then the "Waterguard".Not satisfied, it was back to the boat for "Rum'n'minties - and - a surprise birthday cake - a jam and choc DOUGHNUT with a single candle in the middle!!!!!!! Thank goodness there wasn't any room for all the other candles- cos I had enough trouble blowing THAT sucker out!! LOL !! (NO - I'm not going to tell you how many candles there should be!)

Another great time with great company!

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!!