After much back and forth on the steps and the careful use of the remaining duflex I now have the step material all cut and have dry fitted the port side (unfortunately I forgot the camera so no pics) I have now taken

The steps are a difficult part of the boat to build freehand. If I had stuck to the kit they would have gone together very easily. But there would be no way that anything other than a 9.9hp motor would have ever fitted

The steps are progressing slowly. The model outboard that I am planning on Etec 25hp is not released here yet so I don’t have isometric dimensions of it so if you are reading this in the US and can get a drawing

Another 2 day Melbourne trip on Tuesday and Wednesday meant little work done during the week. The work I did get done last night was to clean up the glassing of the inside of the davits and to rout the outside and sand

I had some visitors early so I got a later start to work today but I still managed to get all done that I had set myself for the day, I just finished a bit later than I otherwise would have. Today’s task was to

Today was a really fun day. The task took all day but I was so enjoying what I was doing I didn’t stop for lunch and hardly stopped to keep my fluids up (It is still warm here) and started to get a headache around

The bottom of the davits will need to attach to the duckboard and because there will be quite a lever action of weight pulling down at the end of the davits I want to counter that by adding a foot to the davit that runs

Another season came and went. Summer is officially over although I suspect we still have a few weeks of hot weather yet. As I usually do, I checked on the Pureseal plate to see how it was fairing after another 3 months,

Unfortunately I did not get as much of the the rear steps done as I wanted in February and in fact I may not be able to complete them until I have a definite idea of the outboards I will fit. I am leaning to the