16th March 2024 – A few jobs I should have done while making the entrance back in 2021. This is how I spent my day aboard Tordino. Doing some small repairs and touching up the entrance. The sign was painted and so was our panel.
Category: MS Tordino
14th March 2024 – Just welded the two supports for the new entrance sign for the Museum.
13th March 2024 – I made a new entrance sign at my workshop. It will be mounted on top of the entrance of the ship so people know the museum is on the inside.
9th March 2024 – About time to clean the decks of Tordino. It was all green and it became slippery. Also, looking from the other side of the canal, the ship started to look neglected. I’ve been working so hard on our BBS platform and some other (private) projects, I didn’t had any time to maintain Tordino.
29th January 2024 – I’m working in my workshop, but several boxes with books still need sorting out. I’ve started the job scanning them and adding them to the inventory of the Library.
28th January 2024 – A day of working in the Library, sorting out books in the morning and scanning covers in the evening.
24th January 2024 – You don’t see that many updates anymore. I’m spending most of my time working on an app we have developed with the Museum. It is taking a lot of time to enter data and new modules. This evening or should I rather say night, we launched a new version.
It is all in Dutch, but it could be useful if you own a Belgian barge…
Belgische Binnenvaart Schepen – Nieuws (binnenvaarterfgoed.be)
14th January 2024 – I started by mounting the pieces of wood I cut last night at my workshop. Once that was finished I mounted two cabinets for the library. It was to cold to work so I gave up in the afternoon.
13rd January 2024 – I mounted the floor and the two cabinets on the wall. Then I helped my new neighbour.
12th January 2024 – The library reading room got its final coat of paint. I also found two old cupboards from a barge to be used as decoration.
7th January 2024 – The whole room got a first coat of paint. Two more to go. I started early in the morning by cleaning the room, removing tools and remaining pieces of wood. In the afternoon, my parents came to help me.
6th January 2024 – I was still surprised to see how much little details needed finishing. I also added insulation to the metal hatch. I hope it will help for the coming week. It will no longer be rain, but now it will be freezing.
5th January 2024 – Finally the t&g is almost ready and now it are just a few bits and pieces that need doing. Quite exhausting, climbing up and down the ladder continuously…
2nd January 2024 – I rarely buy new furniture, and even less in a shop like Ikea, but for the library there is no other cheap solution. For years I’ve been buying Kallax cabinets and they are easy to mount, always the same model and colour, so whenever I need to extend the storage I can add some more. I bought three of the biggest they have. I hope to be safe again for a year or two…
1st January 2024 – The conversion has taken to much time. I’m working on several projects and I notice the extension of the library, the reading room, is a bit left behind. I made a deadline: 1st February it should be ready. So I continued working today happy with the result!