22nd March 2020 – Another day of working with t&g in the workshop. I continued with the ceiling.
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22nd March 2007 – Today they built my mooring posts. I wasn’t there and my mother didn’t know how to take pictures, so there is no further information available on making mooring posts at this moment.
21st March 2020 – For as long as I have wood, I will continue to work in the workshop. Worked on the walls and the ceiling today.
20th March 2020 – While wathing outside, a pot of ivy was floating in the water. I grapped my boat hook and pulled it out.
9th March 2020 – Worked a little bit on the ceiling. I was to tired from work to do much….
8th March 2020 – Today the door was mounted between the workshop and the technical room. The wall was finished and I started working with t&g. The door is similar to the ones in the living accommodation. I always kept a spare door and now, after 12 years I can finaly use it. Never throw anything away!
2nd March 2020 – My neighbour gave me some good advice about my LED lights. I tuned them, pointing at the metal. Now the back accommodation is lighted up. It looks much better then just a light strip.
I also continued working in the workshop, building another wall with insulation and plywood. The next step is the ceiling and mounting the door between the room for the central heating and the workshop.
2nd March 2020 – Buying plywood and unloading it aboard the Watergeus. Since I don’t have much space, I have to get small quantities. After nearly fifteen years of converting the Watergeus, I don’t want to know how much wood was loaded aboard this ship…
1st March 2020 – I mounted some proper stairs in the workshop. Makes life easier getting in and out. I made some good progress today. The most annoying thing is the small room, filled up with stuff I still need. Two packs of insulation are now gone, so I can walk around. I now notice the luxury of Tordino, where I have six meters of width to work.
29th February 2020 – After I came back from the Stern, I decided to work aboard the Watergeus and make the workshop ready. It will take some time before it is finished. I made a hole in the bulkhead for having access to the massurator. Then I started making the wall between the workshop and the room where the central heating will become.
25th February 2020 – I just installed some LED lights at the back of the ship. The LED strip is maybe a little bright. You can see it from the other bridge….
23rd December 2019 – In the morning we went to pick up a diesel heater for the Watergeus, a young model, perfect for my central heating. Before we could lower it in the hold, I had to remove the old ballast tank. In 2007 we welded a ballast tank, but it had been used one time. Ii was taking so much space, we now removed it.
At lunch time, two additional friends came to unload the heater and lower it into the hold. Everything went well. Sadly enough at the last stage, lowering it into the hold, the rope broke and the heater felt down the hatch on the floor. So no heating in the next couple of weeks. No one to blame, a sad accident…
21st December 2019 – I’ve started cleaning out the storage space. It will be used for the central heating. The second part will become a clean room, probably for restoring my objects for the museum. This hold has been used since I own the boat for putting away tools and spare parts. You can imagine how much stuff was stored in this room. Even my old tins of paint from the start were still there. I filled up a van with rubbish…
The room is now empty and ready for cutting out the ballast tank.
20th September 2019 – My parents gave a second coat to several parts of the Watergeus. It was a nice surprise when I came home.
15th September 2019 – The den and front cabin got a second coat of paint. I put some order on my deck and put the propellers back on the roof of the bathroom. One of them was slightly to heavy and I had to use my crane. Never underestimate the luxury of having a crane aboard your ship!
On starboard side, I removed a metal strip so the water could easier get of the ship. I did the same thing on port side last year.
The little boat on my deck was cleaned and I moved some old plates and put them under the hatches. All small things that make my ship looking better again.
