You can see video of her being lifted on the Lifting her onto dry land onto our little patch of England (apologies for the video quality - not sure that was going on there).
We had great service from Nigel Cullis the crane driver who knew exactly what he was doing on the very misty morning she arrived and we have since painted her with several coats of International Toplac in Mauritius Blue, which is a favourite colour although final painting will take place closer to the end of build as there will probably be a fair few scratches on her by then.
We have ordered windows from Wesley Marine. They came out to meet us and see the new boat for themselves and gave some great advice. We have gone for the clamp fit range, which is slightly more expensive (by about £15 a window) but much easier to fit. They are just normal hopper style in matt black powder coated.
Whilst we wait for delivery on windows we have started to insulate the inside and chose to begin this on a hot day. We took the insulation materials outside eventually but they are double sided air filled foil and reflected very strongly off the sun - nearly blinded. Anyway, we are most of the way to finishing the insulation now and have purchased the wood for battoning. £40 for a few bits of timber you won't even see - that price has gone up a bit!
Next project is fitting the engine. It has a Barrus Shires 2.2 and we are just pricing bits at the moment, including the calorifyer and propellor. Hope to begin this next week as well as complete the battoning.
