After 3 years sitting where it has the boat is about to move for the second last time on land (well perhaps it will be back on land at some point via a travel lift for maintenance). The fairers want to get started but in order to to that they need the nose cones on, […]

This has been a big month. I almost hit 90 hours which for a non holiday month is my best ever. And a productive month in which I almost hit all of the goals I set for it. I set out to complete the furniture in each of the forward bedrooms, or at least as […]

I am managing some good hours each weeknight and my usual weekend hours, I still find 7 or 8 hours sees me done on the weekend, my back muscles start to hurt and the climbing up and down wears me out. But this is shaping as a very good month. The steps up into the […]

I have already glassed in the second to bottom step up to the starboard bunk and I am just waiting on the front edge fill of the bottom step before glassing it in. I have shaped it, as with every stair set in the boat, the bottom step needs to be oversize so that it […]

I need to cut more parts for the starboard hanging closet, and because they are quite large and because I still have some very large panels to cut for such things as the port stairwell, I decided to cut them together so I could nest them in the most efficient way. As with all furniture […]

I have previously marked out where we could build a hanging cabinet in the starboard forward bunk. The aft bunk in this hull has a space for hanging clothes and of course the port bunk has its own dedicated closet where the ensuite is in this bedroom so it needs some space. The issue with […]

The nav cabinet is to have a curved side so that the path into the saloon through the double doors and past the nav table into the starboard hull is around a curved cabinet corner. I thought kerfing would be the easiest way to do this as the inside (kerfed side) is inside the cupboard […]

Setting step heights and shapes is trial and error with cardboard. Once you decide on the heights that is, and setting heights is somewhat more difficult, because the only way to be sure they work for you is to use them, and the only way to do that is to have them fixed into the […]

Yesterday I finished glassing in the starboard steps and making the shelves and front of the curved cupboard that finishes that section of the boat, well almost, the only other furniture to make will be a wine bottle holder that will fit behind the starboard dagger board case, everything else to do in there is […]

Now that I am back enjoying some high visibility furniture construction I am going to get a start on the beds and steps to them. Once they are done (they should not take the entire month and during the same time I will alternate between finishing the galley and the bedrooms) I will need to […]