Progress Update: Sept. 26th

In spite of a heart attack and slow healing shoulder wound, progress is being made!






 Upper storage cabinets in forward shop. Still need paint and then snap on canvas covers.

Support collar for the drill press and top step for the forward emergency escape hatch. The drill press is also bolted to the deck, don't want it coming loose at sea.

Eric laying up patterns for the first cabinet. Each piece is odd angles and some curves because of hull shape.

 Eric building the first cabinet

Patterns for every piece! Very time-consuming process but well worth it for the end result.

 The hallway looks wonderful with the new FRP panels!

Eric working on the walls in the lower head. He had to quit after a bit, his shoulder is giving him a lot of trouble while its healing. He's getting a lot of rest but the idleness is driving him crazy. He's not very happy with interruptions in working on projects.

Progress Report: August 27th

On July 28th, Eric was rudely interrupted by a heart attack. He received two stents. The main artery to his heart was 99% blocked. He's recovering now and getting much better! 
Progress has resumed although Eric is working on a small side job to help pay some of our personal bills so he is split between the two jobs for a short time. 

( Eric prepping for the FRP panels)

The shop overhead is finished! The black area is the emergency hatch.

The top outer 1/4 section of the door frame for the lower head was too badly burned and could not be salvaged. Eric made new pieces and they look perfect! 

The two remaining door frames in the hallway were sanded, primed and painted before prepping the walls for FRP panels.

Mary cleaning up after the over-all hallway sanding. 

Our beautiful new panels!!

Right side of the hallway. The left side still needs to be done.

Stopping an annoying leak in the aft cabin we recently painted.

Progress Update: July 24th

(Eric painting large overhead panel)

The last two weeks Eric has been splitting his time between the ship and a temporary marine service job. We made slow progress with on-board projects but progress non the less. The overhead in the shop has the perimeter finished, one large panel installed and another large panel set to go up Monday. 
The crew head is spackled and ready for sanding and the hallway walls are ready to be covered. We will be using textured FRP sheets for the hallway which is similar to fiberglass shower-board. 

Overhead perimeter panels

First large panel installed

The crew head

 Fiberglass station

Adhesives and Putty station

 

 Painting station

Link to past Progress Reports

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The above link contains all previous posts with progress reports and photos from 7/7/14 - 8/27/16

Due to a computer failure in which all data was lost, access to our missions blog has been redirected by Blogger to this former blog.  All future postings will be written here.