22nd May 2022 – I barely had any time to scan books or work with the archives. Many people came to visit the ship.
Category: MS Tordino
21st May 2022 – I welded a metal pipe for the mast on the second distance keeper of Tordino. I will mount the spare mast of the Watergeus with some flags I received on Tuesday.
While I tried to scan some documents and book covers, I had many visitors. All of them had heard about Tordino in the newspaper….
19th May 2022 – The weather was unstable so I continued scanning books and brochures in the Library.
15th May 2022 – Just to warm to work outside, lovely to be inside the hold where it is still cold. So I just continued scanning old documents.
In the evening when it was a little colder we made a nice walk… Walking along the canal is like a holiday.
14th May 2022 – After a heavy morning, some change of plans, I had a good breakfast with my girl and went to Tordino. I lowered an extremely heavy porthole from the sunken lightship Westhinder into the hold. I did some scanning to change my mind.
In the evening, some friends came and we had a drink! A day well spent, despite missing a good friend!
13th May 2022 – I did some scanning after a heavy week of moving stuff. In the late evening I still had to empty the entrance of the museum. I’m glad I will have some more normal weeks arriving….
7th May 2022 – I ran the engine for one hour and discovered the expansion tank for the water was empty. I don’t have a good feeling with this! Around 15 litres of water was added, we shall see how it goes next time.
A new metal bar was welded so the railing is looking more traditional again and my flower pots are nicely supported.
In the afternoon, I spent most of my time scanning documents and mounting old items like the namesign of the Ross Leopard and the Frantsis, which was stored aboard the Watergeus for years.
6th May 2022 – I just bought a metal bar to weld and repair the railing. In the afternoon I scanned some books.
5th May 2022 – We moved the flowers from the Watergeus to Tordino. It looks much more alive on Tordino now. I will have to do some welding to repair the railing at the back accommodation.
In the evening we had a meeting with the neighbourhood about the future of Plassendale.
3rd My 2022 – I now have the ships’s bell that was hanging in the entrance of the Watergeus at the entrance of Tordino. Same spot, different ship. The old name signs are now also part of the museum collection.
1st May 2022 – One of the intentions this year is to label every object so people know at least what they are looking at. I made around 16 meters of labels (two expensive packages of special tape). I hang some more frames of inland vessels as well.
26th April 2022 – I just mounted around 30 frames for the new exhibition that starts on Sunday. Nearly there…
23rd April 2022 – In between visitors, I continued working in the library, adding an extra cupboard and moving a big model. I now have again enough room for one or two years of collecting magazines.
Slowly getting there in optimising storage aboard Tordino.
18th April 2022 – A very busy day, we had a lot of visitors today. I barely had any time to work on the content of the museum. I tried sorting out the magazines, a lot of work since I have over 400 different magazine titles…
17th April 2022 – While the museum is open, in between visits, I was working in the server room, Library and hold. I temporary stored several magazines where I’ve put my servers. Now I’m scanning the covers and putting them back in the Library.
I added some more labels and some paintings in the hold. Some of the more unique pieces from the Watergeus are now in the hold of Tordino. I’m removing more and more non inland waterways stuff, replacing it with more important content.