How I woke up on the 21st.... no comment

How I woke up on my 21st... dont ask


hey guys! took a trip this weekend to get boat parts and such, but also went to tour all the sweet old ships and such in porstmouth, went to stonehenge, went to the boat jumble at beuleigh, camped out in some field, spent the night in a pub in a marina. All to be written for now haha, heres pics to tell it all.

The hms victory, nelsons flagship at trafalgar

the henge

the spot on deck of the victory where nelson was shot

Got the Black Lung

Hey Dudes, good picture for yah of the work were doing right now, the weather is nice so now were on to the exterior. What we've gotta do first is us filler and then sand everything to get everything nice, flush, round, and shipshape. The problem with making a yacht out of steel is that when you weld it all together it gets warped and then you hafta fair it in. Anyways, this was the dustiest day in the history of the boat, we had to put a tarp up over the aft deck while we ground out fairing that had cracked all over it so that the dust wouldnt get on neighboring yachts. Their yachts stayed clean, we looked like chimney sweeps. Cheers guys.

Led Zeppelin and Welsh Cakes

The first beach we went to, sweet, but no sand.


Howdy All, Sorry its been so long since a post... again... but will actually be doing more posts when we actually sail 'cause they'll be a little more exciting. But anywho the lowdown for now. Work is cruisin along, were working even untill 8 or 9 pm somedays because it now stays light that late and were getting in the groove. Finishng up the deckhead cladding at the moment which takes a long time. We hafta mix up this glue that has formaldehyde in it (remember that from biology?) and then we have about two hours to use it before it sets up. this may sound pokey but we can only get about 7 full length cladding planks out of each pot and it takes the full two hours to do it. Mostly because we have to fit the planks around all the studs we welded to the deckhead which hold the whole affair up. Were about 2/3rds done with all cladding though! Woo hoo! and have started working on the exterior on nice days. When you see the pictures of the cladding just to appreciate the time it takes, first we hand machined every single piece, split them in half on the table saw to get them so slim, and then routed the edges to get the bevels. Then we can only do about 20-30 planks a day and that takes ALL day. But it looks fantastic! In other news, been going to this local church here now regularly thats great. You've never heard a worship service until you've been in a huge wooden hall with a hundred welshman belting out hymns accompanied by String Instruments, Woodwinds, Grand Piano and Drums. Also the other day Drew and I took a day off and went in search of some sandy beaches to use our skimboard on. We made it to one beach in a village called southerndown but there was no sand. It was gorgeous though, sooooo it being the UK, we went to the next village over ( called Ogmore-by-sea?) to check out that beach... it took a minute to drive between the villages... literally.. haha! And we found a sweet sweep of sandy beach complete with sheep grazing and " 'er ladyshi'p" riding horses on it. The heavens shown down saying "this is the beach" and we promptly ruined the picturesque british scene with our vulgar Yank frisbee and skimboarding for the afternoon! Take it easy guys!
Puttin Cladding up in tha Saloon! Cladding everywhere you can see A little skim action!
Drew cruising along