yep, its a big bow
the tres amigosHowdy guys! sorry for the infrequent update, computer was out of action again. - Boats goin well! Steering is almost done! Weve got our wheel up! and should have a fully steering boat in a few days. Drew and I finished all the ply wood up on the deckhead and should be doing cladding soon! On tuesday we drove to bristol to pick up some stuff and decided to stop off at the S.S. Great Britain. - the first( I think) Iron ship, which was also the fastest ship in the world under power at its time. It was an amazing feat of engineering for 1843 including the 4 piston steam engine that was larger than almost our entire boat! It was abandoned in the falklands but then barged up to bristol and put in the dry dock where it was built which is where it is now. The real cool thing about it is the glass you can see in the pics around the water line. Its got water on top of it so it looks like its floating but what it is really doing is preserving the bottom half of the ship which you can walk around. Below the water line the iron was so impregnated with salt it would decompose if left in the open so under the ship in the drydock is actually entirely conditioned with warm air and dehumidifcation to stop the ship from disentigrating. It was quite wild to see! by the way, the ship was full of holes.
our wheel!
imagine making that when folks were still riding horses around.
