Galley dry fit

No pictures survive of yesterday's pancake breakfast. 

The pancakes were coconut, the maple syrup was genuine, and the whole thing was cooked in Tiger's galley. Sunday lunch was black bean noodles with peanut sauce on a base of salad -- likewise cooked and eaten in the galley.

Yee haw! We have been talking about this for such a long time!

For the dry fit, Trevor screwed a lot of components into position, and clamped some others. Here are some views.

Here's the sink, immediately aft of the companionway. The counter, in this picture hosting quite a few tools, will be the location for our in-use water jug. There's room for a work surface too. Thermoses are behind the rail above the sink.

Here's the opposite side, with the stove installed. It's a Primus-style stove. You heat the burner first by burning alcohol, then light the kerosene. The red hose you see in the bottom left is the bicycle pump; you have to pressurize it manually. Behind the stove there are two small compartments. We are likely going to put wide mesh across them and use one of them to store our ladle, slotted spoon and cutlery, while the other holds pot lids. Dish storage is above.

Here's the plate storage, more like it will really be.

Whenever Trevor finds a small spot
with nothing immediately planned for it,
he seems to label it "books."
"Why?" asks no one, ever, who
has seen our house.

"Hot beverage to helm attendee."
It's a port light to the cockpit.

Mysterious!

Mysterious, right?

Kind of like what happened to the time between last October (my last blog post) and now (March).

I think it looks a bit like a table prepared for some sort of odd ritual involving scissors.

But no. It's a hatch cover, newly glassed, sitting on the work bench under the empty clamp rack.

We're back, people. Galley photos coming on Wednesday.

A bicycle built for Mom

Indeed, the boat is progressing -- in a "yet another coat of white paint inside" kind of way -- and it is exciting -- in a "yet another coat of white paint inside" kind of way. 

We've had other excitement, too -- our oldest housemate (Mary's mother) celebrated her 90th birthday in September. Here's her favourite gift.

The most beautiful bicycle ever.

Why? Because a couple of years ago, Trevor heard her say that she had never had a bicycle. "Now you do," he told her when she opened it. 

The pedals turn, the "chain" drives the back wheel, the handlebars turn, and yes, that is a hand-carved seat. It's about an extended hand-span wide.

Sometimes people leave you speechless.

Framing the hatches

Every time something new is added to the boat, someone says, "Wow! Now it really looks like a boat!"

I will spare you. I do have a particular fondness for the frames around the hatches, though. It makes it look... well, you know.

Here are the pieces laid out, ready for gluing.

And here's a closeup of the way the joins work.

At first all the epoxy we purchased seemed excessive. 

Where there's glue, there's cleanup.

Hard as it is to believe that it's going to be September tomorrow, early fall has its compensations.

What's a boat without a rudder?

For the moment, at least, there's no need to answer that question. Here's the rudder temporarily installed. Yes, it will need another coat of paint, won't it.

Top this!

Once a cabin top has its sides, and its holes cut for windows, and the frames glued in, there's nowhere to go but up. And up the top went, earlier this week.

The cabin top is assembled from two pieces. Here they are, reclining on the deck awaiting installation.

Gluing in process. It's possible that the glue crew noticed the camera.

Here it is, glued in, and with lots of squeeze-out scraped off. Squeeze-out: it's a good thing. Just a huge amount of sanding and six quick coats of paint on that and you won't notice it at all.

Window frames, deadlight frames, whatever you call them

... suddenly, in a veritable bristle of clamps, they are underway.

The cabin sides have the holes cut in them. The frames are glued on inside, so the glass sits flush with the cabin sides on the exterior.

Shaped frames, ready to install inside.

And here's some of them, glued and clamped. To be continued!