So 4 have been welded into the front- they are not as big as we thought they’d be but they are at a great height so you can look out and see many reflections on the water. Obviously the window bit hasn’t been put in- but that’s going to be done this week. Also, I [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2010’
BATH-TIME!
It’s arrived and it’s got enormous feet! Bigger than my own feet! Yesterday at 3pm I hot-trotted over to the vessel to find a delivery van and a perplexed Tom staring into the back of it. To the rescue I came, ready to haul the damned thing off the back of the van. I wasn’t [...]
days and days
It’s been nearly two weeks since I last wrote. Lots has happened but I have been totally distracted by work (blurgh). Actually some of the work has been very nice so I shouldn’t complain at all. SO, I have taken pics which I will upload but for now it’s just these humble words… Mainly, the [...]
yikes
Despite the cheery picture I uploaded yesterday (which did make me laugh a lot because it does actually look like us), I have woken up feeling ever so anxious. Last night I did some working out of accounts and what’s been spent and worked out that we have already spent over what was quoted for [...]
the happy couple
look, it’s me and pat! (I’m the green one on the right)
arrival of the fittest
tanks. The fittest tanks! I was walking over the bridge to the boat and there they were being delivered. Cath and Tom were trying to find a way to get them out of the van and into the boat. So they carried them through the mooring and then lowered the tanks through the hole in [...]
the holes
I went to visit Tom and Cath working on the boat today and there was activity… Here are some pics of the two removed bits of steel which have created holes in the boat; the knocked out bulkhead and the hole in the roof to get the tanks in (it was exposed to day, you [...]
sunshine!
The sun has finally come out! This is good. AND there are two other good things that happened yesterday: a birth in the family (little Max, Pat’s an uncle- yipeee!), and the bulkhead has been removed! Tom and Stuart have cut out the bit of metal between the main boat at the front cabin, and apparently (I [...]