Cooking
This is nearly where I started today. The side supports for the sloping part of the cupboard behind the cooker box were already screwed and glued in. I had also scraped away the excess foaming glue. First job was the aft side piece. Due to the alignment with the upright
Plans
We have been hinting at a big announcement. Well the video is uploaded and will be public at 10am BST tomorrow (Saturday) morning :-)
Progress
I've started the next carbon fibre joint. This is for the port side aft gate brace. Slightly different this time as I'm building it in place a bit at a time because both the stanchion and the brace are now permanently epoxied into place. I'
Dinghy
We are preparing for a first UK winter living aboard at anchor. Getting ashore has been a concern. Our ePropulsion electric outboard is great in many ways but has limited range & speed plus we probably won't get enough solar power to charge it. So this is a
Appliances
It's been raining almost all day and for the first week of our "Summer" holiday it looks like it will rain every other day. At the moment we are using dry days to work on the stanchions and guard lines which will lead to tackling the
Progress
We have been working with the assumption that our stanchions should be removable. Thinking about it that's probably because nearly all the stainless steel ones we see are in two parts. The base with a socket for the stanchion to drop into. As we have been fitting ours
Cooking
Check out our new video We get our first stanchion base ready to fit. Making more progress towards carbon-fibre stanchions with fully sealed decks. Also progress on the galley painting, insulation, worktops, fiddles and more. A complete replacement of the original 47 year old galley. Oh, and we fixed some
Cooking
We can really see how the galley will look and work. The cooker box is ready for painting. It even has a sliding bolt to hold it steady when we don't need it gimbled. We have stainless steel tubes coming to fit as sleeves to protect the wood
Electric
We are really excited with the progress on our stanchions and what we have learnt means we have redesigned our aft solar "arch" yet again (I've lost count, this might be the 10,000th version). Stanchions and Gates This was our first stanchion base. The carbon
Cooking
We have made lots of good progress on the galley this weekend. First Jane has painted the insulated hull plus the bulkhead. B&Q kitchen and bathroom paint (Whistler for the main areas and Monaco for the highlights). We then dry fitted the sink worktop. As we did so
Environmental
In Our Compost Toilet deadline we said we that our current plan is to create a place for composting the septage (the dry solids from our Nature's Head compost toilet). To achieve the temperatures to rapidly kill all pathogens three things are needed: * Insulation (in a large outdoor
Progress
A couple of weeks ago we wrote Insulating the galley, today we have improved the way we are holding the insulation in place. The vertical battens we tried last time didn't work well. The bend was too sharp. So now we have 120mm wide strips of 3.6mm