Hello! On Monday I turned 30 and after a chaotic weekend, spent a few disorienting days catching up on sleep and wondering what to do next. I'd reached one North Star, and luckily the next was obvious: I'm leaving the marina on June 11th for a
Hello! A week for my ages, it's been just delightful — helping hands on the boat, 30th birthday party on Saturday, the S&P is up, and the sun's been out. It started on Monday, like all correctly-indexed weeks do, with more panelling and my jet-lagged
Hello, and happy Summer! ☀️ (also happy duckling season.) With the mattress out of the way, job #1 on Monday was cleaning that mess. The room was covered with sanded foam particles that stick to you for their life, but no match for a vacuum. I could then add skirting boards,
Hello, and happy May 4th! Another work-heavy week, but PROGRESS. In 7 days I move back onboard, and today dropped off the mattress foam for covering. I am actually excited to sleep on there, not camping, for the first time in 3 years. Sure there won't be a
Hello! Happy Sunday :) This week I've had a lot of work work, the boat-funding kind, but I still broke ground on the saloon ("lounge", "living room"), starting with the ceiling battens: Followed by panelling, while ignoring my own advice about doing one thing at
Hello, and happy Easter! This week I finished the doors, and they're delightful: Wood for the rest of the boat also arrived, and kitchen design is underway! Then I got to fix the shower fittings... luckily the access was easy; I could take out a few bedroom panels
Hallo, happy Sunday! So the boat's been a mess for a while, but on Tuesday I had a big cleaning sesh with a helpful hand from mum — thank you! — and it is looking so much better. I forgot to take photos, but there is so much room for
— Beyoncé Hello, and happy April! Sometimes I think about what I’d do for work if everything went to shit with a demon cursing all computers and their programmers. Electrician is up there, and carpenter maybe. But tiler? Fuck no. Anyway the final wall tiles arrived on Saturday, and I
Hello! Happy Sunday :) This week I did start on the grouting, and dark grey on light tiles is a mess: I’ve since become more efficient, and it looks pretty! I imagined having the bathroom done this week — a bit more tiling, and the grouting, and some lights — but damn,
Hello! Happy Sunday. The expectations were indeed grout, but I did more tiling this week. Continuing the bathroom walls, and then on Thursday the concrete floor tiles arrived, all 170kg of them. Before starting on those, I stuck down a waterproof membrane and ordered some pizza. Also I fit the
Hello! So tiling is was great; the little section I did last Sunday was a first-time mess (I also didn't have a decent second trowel), but since then the monotony set in, and I'm looking forward to the end. But mostly done, and I love how
Hello! And happy Sunday. Those bathroom drains... eurgh, they were bugging me, and they leaked. They were also horribly inaccessible, and my brother's obsession with maintainability was ringing in my ears. These were anything but: completely sealed, and fragile. And I read Antifragile this week, so it'
Hello! And happy March :D First thing on the list this week, heating pipes: I found a better way to lay them this time, but they're still a pain. And then installing the drains: With some tests they do drain, mostly, but given the small tolerances I'
Halløjsa! In what may be a record for my shortest update, this week I managed some varnishing around work work before heading to Denmark this weekend. And the rest of the windows did arrive! Let's hope they fit, but I won't try until I take the
Hello, and happy Sunday! With parts in hand, on Monday I could finally finish those shower drains: You know that feeling of swizzling butter around a pan to cover the base, filling in the gaps? This is just like that, with liquid metal — it's the same little dopamine
Happy Sunday! I've been procrastinating on these shower drains, but on Tuesday I got myself together to finally figure them out. Going through the welder manual to set things up, I looked for the torch, squinted, then looked back at the manual. There in parenthesis, "torch not
Hello! And happy February :D I remember hearing some advice on project management, something like you should finish the first thing first. And it makes sense — the more you start, the more unfinished things to overwhelm you. This was always my strategy, except I wanted the bedroom and bathroom floors
Hello! Happy last-Sunday-of-January :) This week I continued with some of the tiling boards: Followed by fitting the bathroom shelves: And they're gonna look so good! After routing some nice edges on the bottom one, I started varnishing it with Epifanes, a mighty-hardy marine varnish, and complete overkill: Because
Hello! Happy Sunday. This week I finished the bathroom electrics, and... I went overboard: 48V coming in (because thinner wire for a smaller voltage drop across longer distances, the same principal behind our national grid), then dropping to 12V and distributing to the 4 components via relays — electronic switches triggered
Hello! And happy cold, frosty Sunday :) I got something done on the boat almost every day this week, which felt great; I only have ~4 months to go! But jeez I'm making this bathroom complicated — it's a slow iteration, in the "stop every 30 minutes
Hello, and Happy New Year! Inspired by my dad reminding me that 2025 is a perfect square (45², and I hope to live for the next one), I would also like to remind you it's the product of 2 squares (9² x 5²) and the sum of 3
Hello! I had a little time on Monday this week to fit the marine ply backboard for the bathroom electronics cupboard (no photo, sorry), but have been away for the rest of the week... To stretch that paragraph a little further, I thought it'd be fun to look
Hello! On Tuesday I did the final coat of varnish for the bathroom ceiling, followed by web surfing. It turns out people just cut veneer doors to size, then re-glue them, and... sure why not? I will do that too; it sounds messy but I'll make it work
Hello! All over the place this week, but on Tuesday I finished the bathroom ceiling, with a coat of varnish on Thursday: I went to do another coat on Friday, but "3 hours dry-to-touch" expands to 36 in this wet, cold weather. Instead I fitted some Munsen Rings