Ryan got the engineroom walls fiberglassed and will wait for Scott to raise the engine room ceiling, it needs to go up just a hair to allow for the engineroom doors to close. Ryan went back to working on the masts, joining the 20′ sections together. The sleave idea that I drew out and posted a few weeks ago did not work. When Ryan split the pipe, it unrolled, go figure. Therefore, he got some 8″ side diameter pipe that slide right in. He tap about 40 holes into the sleave and then filled them. It is a bit of a process and I believe he only got one done. 3 more to go! I am very eager to see the masts!

Amy and I worked on the dingy again (no Tesha work to do at the moment). We glued on the second planks. I had been fitting them for two weeks, and called in Amy for the glue job. She does so much better with the epoxy than I do. She tells me it is like icing a cake. Yeah!

Fitted plank

Amy has finished gluing

Haven’t had access to the internet for a few days, and I need to upload some pictures as well. I worked on the dingy some more this week. Cut, shaped and screwed on the second planks on this week. They fit really well with minimal tweaking, so they went on really fast. Even cut the over lap at the bow with a chisel nicely. I’ll take them off this weekend and prepare for gluing.

Ryan spent some more time in the engine room, putting up fiberglass panels, and then started putting the mast sections together to keep moving. I post some pictures shortly.

Again, I don’t have any wood work to do for SV Tesha at the moment, so things seems to be moving slow. Hopefully, we’ll start the interior in the next few months.

Seat are being fitted

Ryan welding up the tops of both mast this past week. This consist of two cones that match the cone on the front of the bow sprit. Ryan also started putting up fiberglass paneling in the engine room. As for myself, I’ve just been tweaking the SketchUp model of the Lewmar V4 vertical capstan.

Not much has happened the last few weeks on SV Tesha. Mostly likely, things will pick up in the new year after everyone gets back from vacation I can save away some money.

The pictures are of the mast welding Ryan and I did in November. We welded all the tangs and tabs onto the upper most portions of the mast.

I did some work on the dingy this week, working on the seats mostly, and cleaning up some the joints before priming the water tight lockers.