foundation laid, shell complete

part two...
fitout goals drawn up
It's back to the whiteboard 

While minor touchups were required, the general 'shell build' was almost complete. We had celebrated this achievement milestone with a short overseas holiday.

We broke this next section into two, the first being general fitout (which was a lot easier said than done), and then 'bling' fitout.

Rather than bleat on with writing, the next two movies will cover this topic.

snapshot video

diy catamaran fitout - stage 1

Some of the photos here 'are very aged' so apologise in advance. Its the bigger picture that we are after.

This fitout was updated in 2019 with many things including some great navigation electronics.

Ten years on, the extra expense in sails has proved its weight in gold, with all sails still holding their shape well (cruising laminate by the way, with some added protection).

catamaran fitout - stage 2

diy catamaran fitout - stage 2

If video says 'No access', empty your device 'cache', then 'refresh'.

shameless plug...

All of this plus a lot more of our journey through this process has been crudely diarised in this book. We have small stories attached to each section and go into suggestions during and post various stages of the build. This also includes. a section on a dome to build under. The dome specifications are listed for the actual one we used, easily modified and cheap.

This particular book, also has the homework we did on our watermakers (desalinators). We actually located a Schenker watermaker in bad repair, found the replacement parts, did it up and have diarised that here too.

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