W.olly
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Now we can let the fun begin properly. Its taken time as said in last post i have been sorting the house out with a few jobs and finishing of a few jobs. on Khashoggi.
Today i took up this wee beast for the sole purpose of getting gear down the boggy field to Cozacan, and be lazy in the good weather.
I paid £100 for it and fitted decent tractor tread tyres, new drive belts and battery. I am happy to say it did the job with ease even pulling the trailer. Its We did get stuck once but its finding the best route through the field where its less boggy. A quick bounce up and down to get traction back and away we went again.
You could say boys and toys but this is the only way i will be getting gear to the boat, cant see me carrying 8x4 sheets and gear 600yrds nowadays.
Sooooo
Next weekend its rip out the what i can, lining first and decide if i want to remove the inner skin which will give maybe 10mm more heard room as i am still undecided on which insulation to go for. Its either PIR again or spray foam, then theres the 3M to look at but that as thick or thicker than the 25mm max i want on the cabin top and sides down to the gunnel.
On deciding what to do there i need to remove all the windows and get the glazed. Along with making a rear cockpit screen and hardtop. I have Sapele int workshop for the rear cabin door frame work. Also still cant decide if to make a full timber door or GRP one.
I am off already with cant bloody decide arnt I.
Now a little happy but a little irritated as T now wants to go with me on the idea of living on a boat / very long term cruising and it was either get a bigger boat or this Norman, the Norman being a leisure boat as things were different back then.
I was/am considering extending it by another ten foot as that would help a lot with a liveaboard/long tern cruiser. That will not get in the way on the plans ahead for the next 6 months as lots to do. Just to think on.
Well that aside for me to sleep n lets crack on
Today i took up this wee beast for the sole purpose of getting gear down the boggy field to Cozacan, and be lazy in the good weather.
I paid £100 for it and fitted decent tractor tread tyres, new drive belts and battery. I am happy to say it did the job with ease even pulling the trailer. Its We did get stuck once but its finding the best route through the field where its less boggy. A quick bounce up and down to get traction back and away we went again.
You could say boys and toys but this is the only way i will be getting gear to the boat, cant see me carrying 8x4 sheets and gear 600yrds nowadays.
Sooooo
Next weekend its rip out the what i can, lining first and decide if i want to remove the inner skin which will give maybe 10mm more heard room as i am still undecided on which insulation to go for. Its either PIR again or spray foam, then theres the 3M to look at but that as thick or thicker than the 25mm max i want on the cabin top and sides down to the gunnel.
On deciding what to do there i need to remove all the windows and get the glazed. Along with making a rear cockpit screen and hardtop. I have Sapele int workshop for the rear cabin door frame work. Also still cant decide if to make a full timber door or GRP one.
I am off already with cant bloody decide arnt I.
Now a little happy but a little irritated as T now wants to go with me on the idea of living on a boat / very long term cruising and it was either get a bigger boat or this Norman, the Norman being a leisure boat as things were different back then.
I was/am considering extending it by another ten foot as that would help a lot with a liveaboard/long tern cruiser. That will not get in the way on the plans ahead for the next 6 months as lots to do. Just to think on.
Well that aside for me to sleep n lets crack on