3366Hrs – Another Point Of View
A (mostly) fun work session today, I decided I’d done enough messing about with all the engine box components on trestles, chairs and work benches, so I decided to get everything reassembled back onto the boat. I figured I could quite happily finish off the remaining bits and pieces with the boxes in situ.
As before, it took a bit of ingenuity and not a little cussing to get the heavy and awkward engine boxes up into place and secured with the stainless rods, and once I’d done that there was a bit more of the same before I was able to fit the engine wells.
Once the boxes and wells were in place I decided to cut up some of the old flooring grade chipboard I had kicking round in the barn and make a temporary centre deck to sit on the temporary bearers I’d already cut.
It didn’t take long before I was able to stand and look at the boat from yet another previously unseen position. Once again a long period of work has suddenly come together in a way that gives me a completely new perspective.
I like these moments.
Here are the pictures, you can also see an eBay purchase collected yesterday. Primary propulsion devices for the tender 🙂
jolly good mate
Looking the part now – exciting!
It’s a boat!!!
Looks awesome! Is there any way of holding the engine boxes down? Personal experiences with these boxes is that apart from the weight of the engine there is nothing to hold them down, and as the waves hit against the Box it pushes up and lifts the engine out of the water…