Bru
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Finally a good weekend working on the boat!
Good job too 'cos she's going in the water next Saturday!
Two coats of antifoul, repaint the boottop (and raise slightly amidships given the clear indications of the waterline being slightly higher than the existing boottop), T-cut the upper hull (it's still not posh but at least it's not quite as shabby as it was!)
Fitted the Cookmate spirit stove ... well sort of fitted it. Miffed to find that despite measuring the hole before ordering it I must have b*lls*d it up because the cooker plus the gimbals turned out to be 1/4" or so too wide for the space. Rik spotted that the aft end of the 'ole had a second piece of 6mm ply glued over the galley carcass which he managed to prise off without doing significant damage and that created enough space to jam the thing in. It swings fine on the gimbals, folds down so the cover will fit but the lid won't open to remove the canisters for refilling 'cos the cooker lid catches on the gimbal bolts - we're going to have to do some major surgery to the galley to sort that out and in the meantime we'll have to remove the cooker from the gimbals to refill the burners. Good job they go several hours on a fill!
Getting the mast down proved a lot easier than I expected, no drama at all with experienced guidance from James Seedhouse. Just hope it goes back up as easily next weekend!
Stopping the night down in Ipswich on Saturday night made a big difference to how much work got done compared to previous trips. Maybe the pressure of the impending launch helped as well!
Good job too 'cos she's going in the water next Saturday!
Two coats of antifoul, repaint the boottop (and raise slightly amidships given the clear indications of the waterline being slightly higher than the existing boottop), T-cut the upper hull (it's still not posh but at least it's not quite as shabby as it was!)
Fitted the Cookmate spirit stove ... well sort of fitted it. Miffed to find that despite measuring the hole before ordering it I must have b*lls*d it up because the cooker plus the gimbals turned out to be 1/4" or so too wide for the space. Rik spotted that the aft end of the 'ole had a second piece of 6mm ply glued over the galley carcass which he managed to prise off without doing significant damage and that created enough space to jam the thing in. It swings fine on the gimbals, folds down so the cover will fit but the lid won't open to remove the canisters for refilling 'cos the cooker lid catches on the gimbal bolts - we're going to have to do some major surgery to the galley to sort that out and in the meantime we'll have to remove the cooker from the gimbals to refill the burners. Good job they go several hours on a fill!
Getting the mast down proved a lot easier than I expected, no drama at all with experienced guidance from James Seedhouse. Just hope it goes back up as easily next weekend!
Stopping the night down in Ipswich on Saturday night made a big difference to how much work got done compared to previous trips. Maybe the pressure of the impending launch helped as well!
