Happy New Year 2010

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It's kinda weird doing this again. I nearly had to figure it all out again.

Firstly a note to any emails I have recieved in the last few months, replys coming soon...

Ok so update news.. of sorts.

The last update was last april. Its weird to think that amount of time has passed and it seems like nothing happened.
In truth, some problems arose with the final welds on the underside of the boat . Some 400 feet of welds were 95% true. It was the 5% I wasn't happy with. So as I have managed to do everything 100% correct so far. I made a decision to cut out and re-weld all 400 feet of them.. that took all of June, July and some of August. It was a a 3 week job that took 3 months because of wind, rain etc.. With winter on the horizon it was now necessary to house the boat. This as you can see is no easy job. The scaffold is borrowed form some very nice people, the scaffold plastic came in 17 x 10 metre sheets. It took a few weeks but i had if fully covered in september, ready for final sanding, blasting and primer. So I thought....lol...

Early october saw gale force winds that ripped a rather large hole in my plans. In effect I had to cut the roof with a knife at 1am in the morning during a storm.. this left the sides un attached and by following morning it was in an un-recoverable state back out in the rain.

What to so now...


Building the scaffold to make the roof



Structure in place. Cad drawings ensured the scaff was in the right place to meet the roof trusses.



Fully covered and ready for paint..... Not!

Size of a church building.

Aprez storm... sides ripped to bits. roof? what roof!!

Part 2 of this below.