Shaft and Propeller Installation.

Move to False Bay Yacht Club, Simonstown

TIDIDI was moved to FBYC on Wednesday the 25th of January and will be on the hard for about 4 months while I get her ready for the water. Better conditions here to finish off the painting and fill the keel with lead.

HUGE DAY TODAY

Keel fitted to TIDIDI after being carried around on the "stretcher". Huge thanks to Theo, Nick and Guy.

KEEL Part 2

After much trial and error, I set up a type of jig in order to hold the forward and aft edges on the same plane and stop it from twisting. So it is all tacked together now, with pipes inserted for pouring the lead, and ready for final welding of the seams.

KEEL

More Panelling

T&G Panelling

Butterfly Hatch

Photo Update

Moving Ahead at a Steady Pace.

Although much of my time until recently was spent fitting out the inside, with the pending sale of the house I am renting and where TIDIDI is being built meant that my focus had to shift from fitting out the interior, to getting the yacht to a point where it was weather proof and could be moved in a hurry.
Good news on this front, as strange as it may seem, is that the house has been sold. Good news because the new owner only wants occupation in about two years which gives me more than ample time to finish the yacht, although current momentum needs to be kept up, as age is against me as well, having just turned a young sixty. I need to have enough time to enjoy the fruits of my hard labour.

What has been happening in the last while? Well as you will have seen from the last couple of updates - few and far between as they may be - all the decks have been completed as well as the cockpit and coach-roof. more recently the cockpit coaming has been completed incorporating the winch pedestals, as well as the cockpit lockers which includes the Gas locker which is above decks with sufficient scuppers to drain off any leaked gas, should there be any. The following are some photographs to illustrate some of this.