14th October 2019 – A job that will take several evenings is painting the front engine room. It is now dark red and it is hard to see anything without a good light. Sadly enough there is not much room to stand or to paint…
Category: MS Tordino
12th October 2019 – We started with the back accommodation. The cupboards in the bedroom downstairs were falling apart and several shelves were missing. I rebuilt them and gave a good coat of primer at the end of the evening.
Old tape was removed from the good shelves. The stairs were covered by old carpet. The freezer who had not been used for at least three years was also thrown away. New wires were put behind the walls with proper sockets and switches.
28th September 2019 – The second day was better. There was more wind but nearly no rain. We had a lot of visitors and were very happy with the result.
27th September 2019 – We arrived a little early on the event and decided to build the tent ourselves. It worked and we were the first who were fully active.
It became windy and it started raining a t 5 o’clock. We closed our tent and had a look on the event. The ships arrived and I took some pictures and made some movies.
21st September 2019 – One of the dirtiest places aboard Tordino is the front engine room. I cleaned it out at the yard when they had to do some welding. After the issue of leakage at the yard, it was pumped with water to find the leak. Once empty it remained dirty. I had an old barrel with oil from the bilges aboard, old dirty tools and stuff from previous owners. It all had to go!
Half of the engine floor was still on deck from last year.
19th September 2019 – I had an appointment with the skipper of the Festina Lente. He had two models for me and some paperwork of his ship. It was delivered at the scrapyard.
17th September 2019 – I unloaded the stuff I got from the Festina Lente. At some point I had to call a friend. The chimney was to heavy and it got stuck on a few wooden planks.
While waiting for him to arrived, I greased the lorry for the hatches.
8th September 2019 – There were 198 visitors on the event Open Monumentendag aboard Tordino. A good result. The people who came were really interested, asked questions and told their own stories. At the end of the evening, I was exhausted and happy to close the hatches….
7th September 2019 – Some small thinks like hovering, removing some dust and moving unused stuff were done this morning. I had a nice visit from some old skippers. They liked it, so they made my day!
6th September 2019 – The top of the roof was painted green. A job started in February, but never got finished. The fuseboxes were connected to the power and now I have proper 220v in every compartment. A major step forward in safety aboard.
3rd September 2019 – I had two meetings aboard the Tordino concerning heritage and cooperation on projects. While waiting the cruise vessel 4 Vaargetijden came alongside. They were surprised I didn’t do difficult them mooring alongside. I explained them I was a museum and not just a houseboat. They understood me…
2nd September 2019 – On Friday, we will install new fuse boxes on Tordino. The old electricity is working, but unreliable. The back accommodation nearly has no 220v power, or it runs from inverters. I pulled a cable from the bow thruster area to the back accommodation.
In the evening I continued with the computers aboard. I’m getting short in time, so I just mounted them as quick as possible.
1st September 2019 – IT is my business, but my attitude of “I’ll make it” is not really working. I still have a lot to do for Open Monumentendag and my whole week is fully packed.
Besides working with the computers and preparing the videos, I also had other items to finish. Plenty of new objects were placed aboard. They hadn’t been labelled, so this was also done today.
The flags in the mast lasted a supper, time to replace them and to mount the Open Monumentendag flag as well!
31st August 2019 – I drove to Leidendorp to have a good chat with an old skipper. He was selling a model of a ship similar to Tordino and promised me to make another one next year.
In the afternoon I drove to Sluiskil were some friends had their ship. It was a nice afternoon. They had collected some stuff for me in the last couple of years. It was time to meet them again.
On the way home I stopped at some old friends, but nobody was home.
28th August 2019 – Open Monumentendag is coming closer. The Library is still filled up with books and computers for the event. Most of it is now sorted out.
I made some more space at the front of the ship, where a part of the archives are stored. Two weeks ago I bought some archive cupboards for and temporary put them in the back accommodation. I will move them over the weekend.