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15th April 2022 – I want to work with movies and digital content for the new exhibition. Therefore, I need to pull new electricity in the Library. This is also the right time for changing the temporary construction I made some years ago.

14th April 2022 – Half of the exterior of the ship was cleaned today. Some more flags are now on the gangway and I got a little further working on the new exhibition. 

12th April 2022 – There are new flags on Tordino. After the last couple of storms, most of them were gone. 

I did some scanning in the evening until my parents arrived to lower a model aboard the ship. The model is so heavy we needed three people to get it aboard. 

10th April 2022 – Today I drove to the Netherlands to pick up four models, two tugs and two barges. 

In the evening I loaded them aboard, they got a label and are ready for the first visitors tomorrow. 

9th April 2022 – I started in the Library removing the old exhibition that lasted for nearly four years. Now it is time for a new one, one about the old wooden barges. I mounted two nu cupboards from Ikea and started building the new expo. 

5th April 2022 – When In started converting Tordino, I had a small workshop at the end of the ship. On top of the workshop were two watertanks. The idea then was to have a bar at the end of the ship and therefore I needed water. The bar became a library, the watert tanks were removed for storage and now the workshop is being turned into a server room.

4th April 2022 – I have eight little masts on the gangway. There are mounted with plastic straps. Every storm I lose a few of these masts. Neighbours, friends or colleagues find them back in the water and drop them off aboard. I now mounted metal straps. Let’s see if it holds now…

In the evening I continued scanning books.

3rd April 2022 – I was surprised to see how many book covers I still need to scan. Making progress, but slowly….

2nd April 2022 – Another day of scanning books. My idea was to keep the library closed when I open the museum in a few weeks, but people like to see the models stored in the library. I will try to sort out the books I received last year and in January. I will need to do a lot of scanning and sorting out…

31st March 2022 – With the nearly daily growing collection of books and documents, I extended the storage in the library.

30th March 2022 – Another 54 books and old inland maps were scanned today. I want the library to be clean when we open on 16th April 2022.