27th September 2023 – The Osaka was pushing a lighter.
27th September 2023 – Mainly painted today, the front is now covered with one coat of primer. The car crane received a second coat of paint.
I also mounted a porthole in the front hatch. Should give me enough light to work in that area.
26th September 2023 – My mother oiled the skylight and namesign. She gave a first coat of paint to the car crane.
In the evening I removed paint from the front of the ship.
17th September 2023 – I painted the inside of the entrance where it was welded. I added some silicone around the welds in case there would be a small leak. You never know…
The biggest problem at the moment is space. I can barely turn around in such a small space, never mind work. I insulated one side and mut some plywood in front of it. At least I got ride of some wood and insulation, giving me some more space…
16th September 2023 – I broke down a part of the workshop at the front of the ship, reused to wood to raise the floor, built a small stage for the stair and mounted the stair. All written in one sentence, but it took me a whole day….
The good thing is I’m still feeling confident it will work out fine. I hadn’t done a conversion on a ship for a while, but it felt good!
The stairs have been aboard the ship since I own her but I can’t remember where I got them from… They are extremely heavy to move around.
15th September 2023 – In the late afternoon I hoovered parts of the front. When walking and measuring, I got to much dust around in the museum. I scraped the rust from the corners of the front tabernakels and made them ready for painting.
In the evening I continued scanning books and postcards
14th September 2023 – Just finished the entrance from the outside. We cut the hole to the hold and finished some more little details.
13th September 2023 – The Avery was heading to Ostend.
9th September 2023 – Way to warm to work aboard. I have to be here for visitors, so I scanned postcards with a ventilator next to me…
Around 400 postcards were scanned. To get an impression…
8th September 2023 – I was just in time to take some pictures of a beautiful luxe motor Stormvogel heading to Nieuwpoort.
7th September 2023 – While In Bruges I spotted the tug Willem again.
6th September 2023 – I got up at 5 o’clock in the morning, so we could get an early start cleaning the boat and doing some painting. At 11 o’clock we had to stop, to start again in the late evening. It is way to warm to working during the regular hours.
I also had a visit from the current owner of the Watergeus. We talked about removing paint and how intense this is…
While waiting in the afternoon, I continued scanning postcards and photographs. I didn’t want to have a wasted day…
5th September 2023 – I got some paint today and continued sanding down parts of the back accommodation. There is still a lot that needs doing…
4th September 2023 – Just spent a whole day sanding down parts of Tordino.
In the evening we had a meeting a the shipyard for dry-docking Tordino.
2nd September 2023 – The plan is to remove damaged and old paint. I did quite a distance today, but I’m not so happy about the result. It is way to much work to remove all the layers, but what layer is still fine?
