Pictures and hole in the hull… and a surprise

Today we made a hole in the hull. It is always scary. But looked much better after we put a shining new portlight in it. Two pictures of the hole:

From the inside

And from the outside.

Quite often people want to see pictures from the interior. I normally come up with a really bad explanation that I don’t have any working digital camera except my mobile phone (which is correct btw). But the truth is that the interior looks really bad on photos. Often tools are spread all over the place, and since painting and hardwood trim goes on last, everything looks dirty and unfinished.

Like this:

A mess, no?

Here is another picture of one of the children’s bunks. It is big enough for any normal adult. But we made a special bulkhead to make it like their own little cabin. We also made some bookshelves. This will look much better when painted.

Did I say it will look much better with some paint on it?

And now for the surprise:

A sailing and rowing dinghy!

We would appreciate ideas for a name. Ida and Joel only created a list of 20 or so. Joels favorite name for the tender right now is “daddy” (but in Swedish of course). Personally I think it might lead to misunderstandings…

Casting window frames

So, casting the window frames in bronze might work out as planned, if we get really lucky.

Anyone can give advice about the best material for creating a plug (?) for the casting flask? We are talking about something like 1/2 inch thick frames for the big windows in the deck house.

MDF?

Plywood? (we did try that but it warped)

In the water!

No worries, everyone! The launch yesterday did fine. Linnea didn’t sink at this third launching either.

In commission again… soon

Ok, it’s time to launch Linnea today after a winter on land. Hopefully I’ll put up some more posts here after that. It is more fun posting when the boat is in the water. Some short notes on what we are up to:

- Ordered thicker bamboo from Germany.

- Made a mock-up of the cabin table. (We’ll probably use it this year.)

- Fixed some problems with the deadwood and bulwarks.

- Finished the companionway hatch.

- Fairing the inside for painting (we don’t want no vinyl cover, this is not a car!)

- Bookshelfs in the kids berths.

- Higher sole in the cabin.

- Water tanks under settees in the cabin.

- Bought really really expensive LED navigation lights.

- Almost there with the navigation berth.

- Aft cabin almost finished.

So now we will:

- Windows, portlights, deadlights, etc. We need them!

- Bow rollers.

- Galley mock up.

- Paint and trim.

- Shower and water to the head.

- Braided halyard.

- New halyard block at mast head.

- New sheet blocks.

- Find a beat up cheap glass fiber dinghy that rows.

- Anything else?

yes

- Upholstrey (mattresses)

- Navigator’s berth (almost finished)

- Some electrical stuff

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