Today has seen us hard at it trying to rapidly reduce the list of structural items so that we can concentrate on painting over the weekend, it had been hoped to get a coat of paint on this evening but the truth is that fatigue has just taken over and painting in artificial light is not a particularly good idea...
So we have been beavering away on rudders and sole boards, finishing off the outstanding work on the spars along with sorting out the multitude of fastenings that are required for cleats, fairleads, eye plates, and other 'bits' that get screwed and glued at this point of the proceedings.
So here the principle activities of the day in photographs...
 |
| The Jessica Rose at the beginning of the day, before Radio 1... |
 |
| Early morning on the Beach, a quick blast of fresh air before the day's labours begin |
 |
| OK... it's friday and I normally have breakfast on a friday, this is a bacon and black pudding baguette, one of Herbie's finest cholesterol nightmares |
 |
| Margin boards in place, this is our own adaptation to allow for the very flat bilge and the problems that provides when fitting floors to the timbers |
 |
| Spars |
 |
| The Rudder Blade with its first coat of Anti-fouling |
 |
| The Mast |
 |
| Fitting leather to the Gaff Jaws |
 |
| Work on fitting the Gudgeon to the Rudder stock |
 |
| Sole boards having been cut and faired awaiting fitting |
 |
| leather in and trimmed |
 |
| The final item 25 minutes later |
 |
| First of the sole boards having been fitted |
 |
| towardsthe end of the days labour |
 |
| Having a quick loaf before finishing |
So we nearly completed the installation but found a problem at the very end of the day and at 22.45 we weren't really into starting another couple of hours work, so while one paints tomorrow the other will complete the sole boards....
Goodnight for now....
