21st July 2009 – Still very tired, after Cactus festival, six days of sailing and yesterday evening a convert from Frank Boeien, I had to start working again. So I worked on the entrance of the ship and the box that will hide the pipes for the central heating.
11th July 2009 – Imagine, you need to grain a hole in the metal side of an area with furniture. You can’t stand on the toilet since it is only holding by it’s water pipe, the hole has to be made above your head and you have less then 70cm of space around you.
Well it takes nearly three hours to make such a hole with the size of 10 by 10cm. When finished I was burned on hands, face and arms. But at least a hole was made and the air vent could be mounted!
Later that day I finished one wall in the bathroom and gave up working for today.
10th July 2009 – Some more wood was delivered today so we could finish the bathroom, living room and entrance of the ship. What is left will be used for the spare room in the front of the ship.
9th July 2009 – It was getting time again to clean and sort out my tools. I might be working on a big project in the near future so I made some time this evening.
6th June 2009 – In the early morning I helped a neighbour removing his rudder. It will be nicely restored. She is the only ship in Bruges left with a wooden rudder and one of the few that has an owner that takes care of it!
During the day I insulated the front cabin and in the late afternoon I started creating a hole in the front deck to enter the bow rudder for the ship. In February I took it of from the Julie (the spits barge with wooden rudder) and now it’s time to put it on my ship.
5th July 2009 – Another storage system has been built, I have one more left to build in the engine room. I can now nicely sort out my thins of paint, tools, spare parts for the engine, portholes and other stuff.
4th July 2009 – Finished the wood work in the kitchen today. Another big job has been done. Nice to see quick progress.
In the evening I went taking some pictures of barges seen from the waterline…
29th June 2009 – I would love to have my deck again in blank metal. Whenever I have some time I remove paint and rust. To make sure no new rust is coming, I try to protect my deck with some oil. After building some more storage space in the engine room, I spent most of the evening chipping rust.
28th June 2009 – Still tired from a nice day yesterday, back to reality, the hard work aboard of my own ship. I finished the bar that divides the living room from the kitchen.
25th June 2009 – I finished the frame for box on the port side of te living room. In that box all wires are hidden, but still accessible if a new cable should be added.
22nd June 2009 – In the engine room I continued building shelves and storage space for my spare parts, paint and other heavy tools.
21st June: 2009 – I had some old wood left from another ship. I used it to finish the bar in the office space.
20th June 2009 – Since the kitchen will be delivered in September I have to finish it now. Th roof and one side are finished. It was done reasonable quickly, since we are now starting to have the feeling and experience of working with pine t&g! Let say it this way: it is getting a boring job and we still have to do a few more meters…
In the evening I mounted my satellite disc on the ship. My neighbour did no longer need it, so I can watch tv again. Since it is an analogue system, not many companies are still broadcasting this way…
18th June 2009 – I went looking for a kitchen. Since I would like to live permanently in the hold by this winter, I needed a small kitchen. Since I had made up my mind and took a small plan with me it was relative easy to find what I wanted.
15th June – The water pipe under the stairs were in need of a wooden protection. Since they can get damaged easily, I built a solid wooden construction around them.
