Plenty of wood to make a start on the interior
Last week we began by laying a floor in the new cabin with spruce hardboard and then panelling the walls with ply concealing rockwool insulation, recycled from the old cabin.
Richard touching up the blacking
I repainted the bow decoration on both boats to freshen them up and today we went around and gave the butty yet another coat of bitumen. We have had a delay owing to our request to make a steel elum (decorated rudder) for the butty, instead of reinstating our old wooden rudder and tiller.
The new elum in situe
The boat is looking proper now, proudly modelling it's new elum. The butty itself is finished, leaving the final painting of the elum with bitumen and etch primer and some ironmongery on the sides of the butty to enable linking both boats together.
You give us beds, we prefer to sleep in the gangway, because we can and you can step around us...
Meanwhile Lister and Reilly as usual have been very good, sleeping most of the day (after a super bazooker walk each morning to tire them out of course!
So next, is a weekend of waiting for the paint to harder off on the new elum and the much awaited launch on Monday........
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