3743Hrs – Gas, Masts and Oscar
As planned we had a little shopping trip this morning out to the local caravan and camping store. I got all the hose, pipe and connectors I need to plumb in the cooker as well as...
Author: Neil
3738Hrs – Oscar The Dinghy
I spent most of the morning painting again then decided to start work on ‘Oscar’, that’s the name Gail’s chosen for the dinghy. I’d stripped the paint off ages back so once I had her up...
3731Hrs – Mainly Decorating
Yesterday and today have been mainly taken up with painting. The fore cabin has had several coats of gloss white and matt blue to break things up a bit. The matt blue wasn’t a design choice,...
3720Hrs – Another Push Day
Two days of paid work coming up so today I pushed on as much as I could again. It was mainly painting work, another coat of primer and one of undercoat in the fore cabin. A...
3712Hrs – Pushing Paint
The last 12 hours of work have been spent in the fore cabin. I finished the epoxy filleting, spent joyous hours cramped up with the sander and then more time clearing up. When that was all...
3700Hrs – Fore Cabin Filleting
Nearly there. Another decent session today and I now just have the area under the aft beam trough to do. It’ll be good to get this job sewn up so that I can sand, clean up...
3694Hrs – F…..ing Day
Yes I finally got round to it and had a filleting day today. What can I tell you? I mixed epoxy, I applied epoxy and repeat ….. Actually I cut and fitted four internal beam trough...
3687Hrs – Recharging Work
Well I was right about it being difficult to do the epoxy filleting today, not one pot of epoxy was mixed. I’ll pay for it later of course but today I was pleasantly distracted by the...
3679Hrs – Drains, Tiles, Vents & More
A real mixed bag of jobs done today; Fitted two rainwater collection drains to the deck pod roof. Applied a coat of primer to the deck pod roof. Fitted tiled splash back to toilet compartment wash...
3672Hrs – New Guttering
I arrived at the barn this morning with no idea what I was going to work on. After cleaning up and sanding down yesterdays glass work on the deck pod roof it struck me that I...