29th December 2017 – In the morning I finished some t&g one one side. I made a mistake yesterday evening and I had to solve it before I could do something else. It bothered me to much.
In the afternoon, I unloaded my van. It was the only dry period that day. I finished with building some more frames for the insulation in the sides.
22nd December 2017 – I made my decision. I will move the old hatches to another location. I’m loosing some space, but at least I can now build the back cabin as I want. I want to keep it completely. This is the only way how visitors will have the feel of living in the late ’20. It will be used as a cinema room. There will be a corridor to walk to the second part of the hold.
I got some portholes from a skipper. I will use them to decorate that corridor!
19th December 2017 – I started building the cabin for real. Not just putting the panels in the right order, but mounting them to a complete room. halfway, I realized I will have to move some parts in the hold or find another solution. the cabin is 4m60 x 3m80. Nearly a square box, which is way to big to fit in the hold properly.
I’m thinking what to do. Only build half a cabin, move the old hatches and den, …..
17th December 2017 – Unloading stuff is one of the most annoying jobs on that ship. I need to walk over another one, walk down the stairs and put it in the hold. I bought some wooden planks and t&g in promotion. Now I had to put it in the hold.
16th December 2017 – Early in the morning, I started with the wooden frame, so my father could insulate in the afternoon. By the end of the day, half one side of the hold was finished.
14th December 2017 – The second part of the old cabin were smaller pieces like shelves and doors. I unloaded them in the evening, and finsished with some frame building. It is nice to work in a clean environment whee everything is painted, no grease, dirt or rubbish around you. I was surprised to see how much progress you can make in one evening.
12th December 2017 – Moving the old cabin to Tordino wasn’t as easy as planned. Both ships were covered with a layer of ice. It was dangerous, but there was no other day I could do it.
Two friends helped me out. It took us some time to unload the panels. They had to be moved carefully. Nearly a hundred years old, they are going to be reassembled in the near future.
10th December 2017 – It had been snowing, the first time this year. I decided to go anyway, since I want to continue with the frame.
9th December 2017 – I made the exhibition hold ready for winter by covering the panels and objects.
In the afternoon, I started building the wooden frame for one of the walls. It took me a lot of time to get my stuff and tools. I put them away in September for Open Monumentendag and hadn’t use them ever since.
27th November 2017 – Again a small puddle of water in the wheelhouse. One of the windows is leaking. Same story, different ship!
28th October 2017 – The front desk for the Library needed some finishing and a good coat of paint.
While I was aboard, I did some smaller jobs like putting a wooden beam underneath the cover of the lifeboat. So the rainwater will no longer be collected in the cover.
24th October 2017 – Sometimes you need to run the engines to keep everything in a good order. Last time, when we moved Tordino, the batteries of the bow thruster were dead. So I made a plan of charging them every month.
15th October 2017 – I did some sanding and painting of the roof top of the kitchen. Some of the paint got damaged when the radar was taken off and later mounted back…
13th October 2017 – The Library room needs a desk where people can ask for information or request books and documents from our archive. It needs to divide the storage of books and the area where people can read books.
I spent some time building the desk. It isn’t finished, but you get the idea.
30rd August 2017 – Just driving up and down with some more stuff. I think one of the most annoying things during the conversion of a ship is getting stuff aboard.
