Summer gets closer

Now the engine is there and it's only the electronics and the fuel system that need to be installed. At this point I realized that the Mid-summer target was a bit tight. But after moving the boat I was able to work also on weekday evenings on it.

Some navigation help is nice to have.

Engine start-up service.

And finally two weeks after the target date the boat is finally in the right element.

The first rain showed the nice surface on the side deck.

The new boat now docked at the new bridge. A project longer that originally planned was finally to an end.

Among the first trips were taken out to the nice archipelago restaurant Hyppeis Värdshus out in Houtskär in Turku Archipelago. A place worth visiting, both for the nice nature and the delicious food.

After a delicious dinner in good company, we took a late drive back over a calm sea in the sunset.

The project moved to a new location

After last blog update there was a longer break in the project, until spring time 2018 when I managed to get the project moved from the school to a boat building shop. 
Now a intensive period started with normal work in the weeks and working on the boat in the weekends, with a goal to get the boat ready by Mid-summer.

The hull was ready, but there were a lot to be done in a relatively short time. The steering consoles, wind shields, back bench and all technology. Steering and fuel system, electronics, engine.

Under the back bench you have the compartment for the fuel tank. To keep this compartment as dry as possible the bench need to be made water tight both for water on the floor and for rain. 

The designing of the steering consoles and the wind shield was the most difficult part of the project. The reason was that it is really difficult to visualize these parts and at the same time ensure the functionality.

After the first parts were mounted it was just to continue gluing one part after another and see the result after that.

Last part to put together was the door.

 

After this there was some varnishing to be made. The whole hull is epoxy treated and for the surface I used  Double Coat UV  A two component PU varnish that was easy to roll out and the result was pretty good.

 

Now the boat was ready to move to next location where I got some help with installing all the electronics and other stuff.