Light at the end of the Tunnel

I have had a request for some interior pictures. Here they are.

I did not post last week because we had Bob on top of the mast to install the wind instrument. Here is a picture of Bob and a picture that he took from the top of the mast.

I do not know why the picture is so distorted, maybe it is because Bob was blowing around and swinging in the wind.

The Generator and Engine have arrived. The Generator is in the boat, although it is not hooked up yet. That is what I am working on now. We also have received the Thruster and the Air Conditioning. The thruster is next weeks project, I will keep you posted.

We actually have progress!

This week I had a few visitors, Ray DeMie and his wife Lisa came out to see the Shuttle Endeavour launch. My son Jaron also came out. Unfortunately the shuttle launch was delayed and Ray did not get to see it. but Jaron stayed all week so he was able to see 2 launches. The nighttime shuttle launch was awesome.

While I had Ray here I put him to work. And I also overworked Jaron. I had promised him relief from the cold back in Utah, but a cold front came through and Jaron experienced record cold in Florida, go figure.

While Ray was here we managed to get the Washer/Dryer in place and all the cutouts made. With Jaron's help, we got the Washer/Dryer into place and plumbed. Jaron also helped get all the plumbing into place and operational. After removing all the various methods of plumbing that came with the boat, It was a relief to get the boat plumbed with Pex. We managed to get this done and it all worked. We had a few minor leaks, but they were all in the conventional (pipe fittings) plumbing. We managed to get all the Pex run, crimped and hooked-up without a leak. All in all we had very good progress this week.

The engine room and machinery space is actually starting to come together and it looks good if I do say so myself.

Work Continues

The work on the engine room continues. Last week Dave and Tony showed up to help out, or just to see if I was really crazy enough to take on a project like this. We got a lot of work done in the days that they were here. The wiring is coming together. We also replaced all the thru-hulls in the boat with new upgraded, UL listed thru-hulls. So hopefully we will not have any leaks at launch time. The post is a short one this week because I failed to get the other pictures I needed. (Also we have a super bowl party to get to).