New Year!

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 2020 was an unusual year globally.  For our boat build it was a great year, just carrying on 7 days a week.  Progress was slow but sure.  Christmas day and New Year's day was just another day, working on the boat.

Down aft, the engine compartment (John's engine room) was built with marine ply, which defined the quarter berths and lazaret.  I was to be the fibreglasser which I duly learned on the job, fibreglassing the lazaret bottom.  The two quarter berths had there support structures built and the slatted bases were made and varnished. The engine compartment was painted with several coats of intumescent paint.

In the bow the chain locker was built and the bottom duly fibreglassed. The platform structure was made with slatted top of Ash and varnished.  A mock up of the head was made, lots of trial and error.  John will have to explain why we don't have a flush toilet.  Its basically going to be a bucket.

Back aft, the quarter berth/seat for chart table is being completed.  Some sections of the boat are more fun to work on than others, and the chart table is going to be just that, beautiful wood work.  The top is made from matumi (please note that we aquired the wood long before it was declared a protected species).And drawers that will hold folded paper charts.

In the meantime, our Eno Grand Large stove arrived rather speedily after placing of the order from a UK agent. Its going to be a while before we can test that.

Chart table first drawer

Stove fits in the space allocated

Quarter berth painted and varnished

Bow

Varnishing in front of the fire, cold wet day


Quarter berth



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