Having decided after much research on water delivery methods, on a cistern I studied the float switch options. Most toilets have bottom fill vertical float switches with a float that climbs a vertical tube when filled to close the tap, and as the name suggests, they fill from the bottom. I wanted a top filler […]
The weather for the past 6-8 weeks has been strange. Not so much hotter than other summers though it certainly feels that way, but more humid. I sweat from the simplest of tasks. It fogs my glasses and makes working difficult and uncomfortable. It is the kind of weather I would expect to encounter in […]
I am getting pretty bored with the endless plumbing of the ensuite but fortunately I am almost finished with it. I still have to glass in the furniture as for now it just sits in place while I secure all of the pipe work that must service it, but now that is complete I can […]
I had last weekend off, Jo and I went to Melbourne for a long weekend, we left on Thursday and got back Monday night so I did not get any work done on that weekend, and the Tuesday was Australia day, but again I did not get any work done that day because of a […]
I have had it confirmed by the supplier that the pumps dont have to be above the toilet rim as the manual suggests. This is only true to prevent siphon back but I have already made a siphon safe system via my pump up gravity out tank system. So with that resolved I can continue […]
With the port sump lid done I move back to the starboard hull to glue and glass the sump top in so that I could build the furniture above it and glass that all in. It was a fairly simple process as I had already done the mirror of this furniture in the port hull […]
First I need to apologize for my near month off updating the website. I have not been working on the boat as much as I could have but also and for the same reason as the less than adequate hours on the build, I have not updated the website because I got a lot of […]
More of the same for the next few months as I slowly fill the internal space with cupboards and other furniture to make the boat a home. This work is slow and there is not much to show for the hours of work. This is an exiting year. If it is not the year of […]
With the success of the starboard sump lids I will of course repeat it for the port hull. The port sump needs a large lid even more than the starboard one, because as well as acting as a normal sump I will also fit 2 of my port through hull fittings in the sump. In […]
I am a bit paranoid about hitting something with my daggerboards down and it acting like a knife and cutting a neat slice down the middle of my hull, so I have made the daggerboard cases stronger than the design specs call for. I have used 19mm duflex instead of 13mm, used 25mm ply back […]
