With only the one weekend this month there is not a lot to show for it. I drilled the through hull for the ensuite holding tank evacuation. Now that is a tough psychological hurdle. I dont know if other boat builders feel it, but I find it really tough to drill or cut holes in […]
This month is very much shortened by a trip to the US that took 3 weeks of the month. But in the week toward the end I all but finished the cabinet in the starboard ensuite. Just the top needs to be glued down but before that will happen the vanity bowl and taps need […]
In the meantime I am finishing loose ends still undone around the boat, starting with glassing in cabinets that are made but for one reason or another are not yet glassed in. For some the reason is that I moved on to something else. One such cabinet is the curved cabinet at the base of […]
The shower sump is not directly below the shower. I have made a sump in the bathroom under sole that will house the sump for the vanity basin as well as the shower, and I will have a direct overboard for the kitchen with a 3 way valve before it goes to directly overboard in […]
After building out the main galley cabinets last month, which include the area in the top that will house the sink and the gas cook-top and the convection microwave, the last cabinet to be built out is the fridge cabinet. I still have to make the top for the main cabinet and cut in the […]
Welcome to what should be the last year of the build. Its a big call given how the boat still has holes in it and no windows cut where there should be holes. But I will get some help to finish and hopefully some more of my own time to throw at it toward the […]
Because I knew I would not get any work done on the boat for the next couple of days I decided to get the last shelf glassed into the main galley cabinet which only leaves the top to make. Yesterday I glassed the conduits onto the deck (under the bottom shelf) and glassed the left […]
As a compromise for the now 3500 hours I have spent building the boat I often finish early on a Sunday and we go for a late afternoon pizza at the Entrance on the central coast. It is a seaside village that attracts weekend visitors from Sydney and has pelican feeding every afternoon and as […]
Whilst working on the galley cupboards I also got some more work done on the chaise return of the lounge. Not sure if I had mentioned it but we have decided we would fit a single dishdrawer dishwasher (Fisher and Paykal) under the chaise return. It meant I would need some extra height (again! #*@&!!( […]
Last weekend I made the panel that would become the bathroom sidewall and ceiling and the back of the kitchen cabinets that will run from the main bulkhead to the stairwell/bathroom front wall and doorway. It is made up of 2 pieces of plywood and a quarter of a pvc drain pipe to form the […]
