Visitors....

This sunday we had a visit from our friends from Florence.

They are building a Vickers 45. http://alemar45.blogspot.com/

One of the most exciting days. Confrontation is really very usefull.

I wish I could meet Brian Russel!

Moving the Boat: New Cradle

After turning the hull we do not need anymore the crane so we will move the boat to another place.

We had a terrible surprise the night before the move as one of the supports cracked!!!

TERROR!

But we immediately modified and fixed it

This is the finished mast step. I will cut the roof top and insert it.

I also closed the tank tops.

Deck House and Maststep

The rear panel of the deck house is now in place. 

I decided to enlarge the opening of the companionway fro 60 to 70 cm, considering that the structure will eat up some of the space. 60 was to small for me.

Then the window frames were tacked in place with a perfect fitting. Urrah.

The method we choose to get the radius of the roof top with a sch 40 1" pipe worked fine!

Now to the mast. We took a piece of 20mm 5083 aluminium and we cut it leaving 5 cm on each side relative to our mast rake.

Then we assembled the E-F frame that was sitting there since day1.

And checked the relative chainplates.

Companionway from inside. Beautiful!

Front view from the companionway.

Side view. Now you can really feel it.

Engine and Pilot House Roof

Roof

The cabin roof starts flying

Roof

A little bit more work on the cockpit

An the placing the stringers for the roof.

Checking the rear tank again

Getting ready for the engine!

Copckit

Another day of work and copckit seat, floor are completed and the rear wall of the saloon positioned to check the proper fit.

Next monday I shall place the coach roof. For obtaining radiused smooth junction between roof and cabin sides we decided to use 1" 5083 pipe.

Upside Down. Hops: UPRIGHT

The first time you see the boat uspide down, actually upright is a big emotion. Sentences like  "a small step for mankind a big step for me" and things like that I think are very common for this situation.

And you cannot stop yourself from taking pictures of different perspectives.

But we mus go back to work

The first thing I did was to measure the actual volume available for the ballast.

We measured with water that was removed with a very simple rotary pump: 530 LITERS!

The the cockpit.

And getting ready for the roof