The week with no boat

This is the first update about the boat where I haven’t seen it all week, so to fill the void of progress here are some old photos from when I first got the boat. Until next Sunday! - Nick

Doing the sidewalk

This too was a slow week for reasons (programming); it goes that way sometimes. But in exciting news I do start some new work tomorrow! Boat progress will slow down for a while, maybe months, and that’s okay; I can definitely finish it now. In the meantime here are

The minor fall, the major lift

Happy November! Strap in for a short one; I spent a few days in Denmark this week, followed by house-sitting, and… the boat did not progress far. On one exciting hand I discovered a leak in the kitchen windows; it’s not bad, and hopefully re-sealing a little section will

Major improvements to feels

It didn’t feel like a wildly productive week, but it still felt good, and I finally made the boat watertight (mostly (portholes still in progress)) by sealing up the 4 windows on the starboard side, along with lining the windows that open with thicker rubber: As best I can

It's a little bit chilly, this weather outside

I’m not one of those who can easily hide, but that’s alright. Last Sunday was 2° overnight, and this was a monumental week in realising my cosy winter dream: I installed the diesel heater, and it is absurd. At first I was slightly nervous it wouldn’t fit

Lights, plants, action

Hello, hello, HELLO! Happy Sunday, and a cold one it is. This week I was away until Thursday, and Friday was all-out pottery, building the skills to fill my future kitchen with crockery. But the days and evenings did not go wasted, and oh buoy. I left the boat in

A secured, insulated boat

This week was textbook Parkinson’s law: work expands to fill the time available for its completion. I didn’t give myself enough to do. On Monday I drilled the shoot bolt hole for the door in the newly-welded hatch and started painting it, along with the chimney collar. This

We are (mostly) insulated!

Omg, happy October! The week started frantically, as Monday was perfect for insulating and I had so much to do: buy a gas mask and some overalls, move a bunch of my shite out of the way, clean all the surfaces and masking tape everything I didn’t want foam

LOOK AT IT!

What a week. Do I say that every week? Monday! WELL, I got most of that water pump bolt out. I also damaged the old thread… alas. I ordered a thread repair kit then headed to Wickes for a sheet of aluminium for the vents, and a PVC pipe for

Progress in millimeters

Well, the weeks where days happen. That bolt thread is still stuck, but I did make some progress today, which you can read about later. I also discovered “thread repair kits” on a recommendation, which are threads inside threads. You drill a larger thread and “shrink” it, in a sense.

Fuck up, 2, 3, 4

Oh buoy… This week was off to the races with preparing the front window: a final coat of primer for the outside, then the 3 coats of varnish on the interior-facing wood. And with that done, it was engine component collection time! The engine/cylinder head, the injectors; back in

Bang goes the engine part 2

“I can hear it still needs a service.” — me being prophetic, August 27th, 2023. Oh you didn’t think we were finished with part 1, did you? Well I did. On Monday morning it sure looked fine, but I started moving the boat and half a mile later badoom it