The first board planing of the masts' corner posts -four of them 65 feet long!

Alex going "solo" and on the right Dylan "taking the strain" for Dave with the "back pack dust collector!

Long boards !!

dave holding the completed trailboard pattern
- neat scroll work!

Trail board.expansion.

Kam and Dave cutting out the finished pattern for the Trail Boards.

This intricate,beatiful design will be transferred to teak at a later date.

Aft heads (toilets) plinth-

here Kam is starting the aft cabin heads plinth.On which will sit the toilet and cupboard under the handbasin.

Focsle berth

Kam is staring the fitting of the carcass for the focsle berth - over the (anchor) chain locker .The stainless srteel pipes are the chain pipes - guiding the abchor chain from the windlass on deck - to the chain liocker below tyhe new berth.

aft cabin heating covers

This is the "weetabix" pattern scribed on to a ply board -then on to 19mm ply for final fitting of grating before the teak is cut

.The slots on the lower edge is the cool air intake for the heater matrix,the hot air will escape through grills on the upper flat teak coverboard.

Here we have the remnants of many breakfasts !!!-

Weetabix boxes ALWAYS come in handy for pattern making!

The cove and boot top lines ....lookin' good!

Alex - "all my own work "!! completes the undercoats for the boot-top and cove lines.
One the right are the "shark fins" ropelines.

Top - Alex painting on the ropelines

Right - the start of the cove line undercoat.

Trail board.

How does THAT look Dave ?

Seeing how the shape of the Trail board fits the cove lines with a smooth and fair flow.

Cove and boot-top lines

Alex and Dylan making sure the line was "fair".