With the boat completed and ready to be launched, all that remained was a long and frustrating wait for a trailer to be completed. And long and frustrating it was. But all things (good and bad) come to an end and so finally dawned the day when then trailer was to arrive and the boat […]
With the interior carpentry completed, everything was removed so that pieces of plywood could be sent off to the trimmers to be made into real seats and large numbers of ceiling planks varnished. With the insides of the boat once more accessible, flotation foam was installed. In Australia, there is a statutory requirement for flotation […]
Before moving onto the larger task of the interior, small but momentous things occupied the time … a name for the boat (although, to this day, it is still referred to as “the boat” – as in, “I am going to work on the boat” or “when will the boat be launched?”). The lettering was […]
With the deck installed and the hull complete, the next steps were to cut out the motor hatch cover and prepare for windscreen building. Through the building process, trying to anticipate long lead time items had always been a factor and it was assumed – correctly – that the windscreen would be one of those […]
After the diversion of the electrical system, installing the deck saw a return to normal boatbuilding. In retrospect, I was somewhat premature in this step as a number of things would have been much easier to install without the deck being in the way – fuel lines being one! But the need to progress overtook […]