3rd September 2007 – Friday, they mentioned on the radio that Bruges had a record of rain, even more then most rainy place in Belgium. I believed them and wasn’t too happy with this record. Even worse, this night, I woke up from the noise of the rain. It was heavily raining, so I went out of bed to shut my engine room door, quite some rain must have entered, but I didn’t bother, I was to tired. At 3 o’clock in the morning outside in the rain is not a pretty feeling.

When I woke up at seven, it was still raining, even more!

The welder is changing most of the negative elements of the last conversion. It costs him more time, but it is certainly worth it. The boat will become stronger and nicer!

In the afternoon they delivered the 40 ribs for the roof. Since the man in the truck didn’t have that much time he delivered the in the grass. We had to move them on the boat. Since between the boat and the grass there is a small downhill with grass and mud it wasn’t easy. The rain made it even worse, but in less then 20 minutes all ribs were on the boat!

We moved the hatches, only a few since the weather didn’t give us a sign of amelioration. To put the ribs in position we used an L-profile. If we would not have done this, it was harder to hold it (read: I could not hold it since I’m only using my left hand) and we could not have kept the rib straight for welding. By the end of the afternoon, we were half way in the living room area of the cargo hold.

In the late evening, the cupboard was delivered to the boat; it took us three people to put it in the cargo hold.