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'

Lessons learned making the forward cabin decks are paying benefits now with the construction of the main cabin decks. I have the construction broken down into three stages.

  1. Lay the first sheet of ply into the mould and glue the transverse strengtheners
  2. Glue the longitudinal strengtheners and the polystyrene sandwich material – Apply Weights
  3. Glue the final layer of ply – Apply Weights

I’ve completed stage 2 of the port hull main cabin deck today and hope to get stage 3 completed before we go away to Portugal .

Longitudinal strengtheners fitted & glue spread

Polystyrene In Place

Polythene, Ply & Weights Applied

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