I have not had a chance to do anymore work on the boat this past week. After family Christmas in Melbourne I thought I would get 2 full days at it but the opportunity to help a friend and sail down to Sydney arose. I

This month marks the 3 year anniversary of starting the build. In early October 2005 I started making the strongback and on 24 October 2005 I started gluing the first duflex panels together on the strongback. It seems a

Boatebiz is now closed. I really enjoyed importing the Jim Black range of hatches but I could no longer do them justice. I am proud that I introduced the Australian market to them and even prouder that I was able to

Last week my computer crashed, a fault with a ram chip corrupted windows and it had to be re imaged, which is new speak for vista needed to be re installed, but the repair guys had to wipe the hard drive clean first.

No new work on either boat, I am in Melbourne on business. My website server crashed (again!) and when they finally got the site back up again the next day, 3 months of post had disappeared. They used their last back

This week came and went and before I knew it the week was gone and no work was done on the boat. I started feeling a little unwell on Monday, and spent Tuesday in bed getting progressively worse with the flu. On

I cant believe I didn’t get an email to tell me I had my months mixed up. The start of the new season is next month! So a bit early to update on PureSeal, I did have a look at the plates but will report at the

I have no idea what this post was supposed to be, it got lost in translation in the migration from the old website. I probably should have deleted it but thought what the heck, leave it