27th June

Slow news day.

Registration mounted on  transom.  You can see a small strip on the top STBD side which is a stainless steel engraved strip with the hull identification number glued and screwed into position.  There is also a secret engraved aluminum strip glued and hidden inside the boat. Will be hard to find.

Boarding ladder will be fitted on stbd  side and trolling motor mounting will be on port side.  I have made stabilizing fins for transom mounting but going to do sea trials before fitting. I if I am happy without I wont fit extra stuff on the transom even though transom has been reinforced in the mounting location positions.

Every day Nuts is covered in plastic to go to sleep.  Even though Nuts is inside my workshop the roof is filled with spiders and they SHIT.  They leave little brown bomb splats which are a pain to clean off.

Big box free shipping on Prime from Germany.  200L of polystyrene balls.  Going to be used for "navigation table" base (watch this space)  as well as body fender in rough weather and adds an extra 200kg buoyancy which can be shoved wherever it is needed.  Got to pick my friend Jeff 's brain. (It is all his fault I ordered this!)  Should have close to 1000kg closed cell buoyancy built into the hull so if the shit hits the fan might get a bit wet but shouldnt sink.

Also spliced up 2 tempory  6mm Chineema shrouds with Brummel loops on each end to hold up the mast  in position to measure the lengths for the stainless crimping when the mast arrives. I plan to have a fixed forestay without a bottlescrew so will need  take some carefull measurment.   I will prepare all the rigging in the next days.  Also got a lot of mast bits to cut and weld but going to wait for when it arrives.  

The more work I do the longer the work list gets!!