Houses, are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary, incapable of gay transition. I admit, doubtfully, as exceptions, snail-shells and caravans. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting-place. It is for that reason, perhaps, that, when it comes, the desire to build a boat is one of those that cannot be resisted. It begins as a little cloud on a serene horizon. It ends by covering the whole sky, so that you can think of nothing else. You must build to regain your freedom.

Arthur Ransome - Racundra's First Cruise (Chapter 1), 1923

GLEDA (Pronounced GLEE DA) - Old English Female Name meaning 'To Make Happy'

Well we had a super road trip to Whitby, Holy Island and Edinburgh and the Landy ran beautifully apart from fracturing a power steering pipe at Gretna Green on the way back. There was nothing I could do with it so I drove the rest of the way with very heavy steering. No doubt some Series owners out there will mock the fact that I had power steering in the first place!

Forecabin Decks

Two decks with first coat of epoxy

Anyway that was last week and this week I’ve been super busy with my business and just didn’t get a chance to get to the barn. My hand was forced today though as some tree felling down the lane meant that I had no electricity for most of the day so I couldn’t work at home anyway.

The weather has turned this week and it was 23′C in the epoxy shack this afternoon, very pleasant indeed. I had a good work session and got the starboard deck and tumblehomes nicely dry fitted then took both deck section off, inverted them and got the first coat of epoxy on what will be the forecabin deckheads (ceilings). Much easier to do this now than try and work overhead in a cramped cabin.

As I said in the title of this post I don’t know where the time goes., in two weeks time we’re off to Portugal for 10 days, a holiday that seemed an eternity way not so long ago. Ah well it’s all good and I’ll be making sure that the next two weeks are super productive

Leave a Reply

(required)

(required)