New Blogger Fitting out a Widebeam boat The adventure begins

Fitting out a Widebeam boat: The adventure begins.: So. The adventure begins. Next tuesday will see us leave our Norfolk cottage, to spend a few months in a small caravan while we fit out our ...

See what I have spawned.  All the very best Ken, you will enjoy it. 

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The Big Grind Begins

Last weekend 28th Feb I started the final grinding of the outer hull along all the weld lines.
The sandblasting day is coming fast.
Theres a few things left to do structurally and Im trying to get them all done before the blasting starts.
Theres probably a few days grinding left..


The pics below are only taken today 4th march on my phone so the quality is bad.
I designed a 1200Litre Freshwater tank for the front under floor of the boat.
As I moved the engine back in design Im adding a bit of water to counter 0.8 degree.

Eurofab (Nose cone ppl) got this laser cut and its been down there for a couple of weeks waiting for time to weld it.


We got some of it tacked today and its lining up nicely.
I dont have TIG welding gear nor have I ever done it, so its pro welding here...

Front end, waiting for the other bit of the floor to get tacked.

The tank will sit across Frames 9, 10, 11. and matckes the shape of the boat exactly.

more pics when we do more on it.

Not getting any comments or mails for ages , yet over 900 views a month..

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A Whale of an Adventure Begins

Traveled all day yesterday to board the NOAA ship Henry B. Bigelow at the Newport, RI naval base. As part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations (NOAA) Teacher at Sea program, I get to join scientists monitoring whale populations for the next week and a half in the Gulf of Maine!

Hoooo weee!

Pictures of the ship to come, as well as a link to my “official” NOAA blog that will be up and running in the next few days.

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