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This is the trip to see and talk with Cookie of S&H Spars on the Gold Coast who, along with Peter, designed, fabricated and put all of the myriad of components together for Mistress' masthead, cutter designed sailing Rig - mast, boom, spinnaker pole, s...

Yes indeed, part 3 on finishing the hard dodger build for Mistress! Lots of welding, lots of fairing and coving and getting some good, high build epoxy primer-undercoat on it all to seriously protect all of this steel from corrosion ahead! Mistress is de...

Part 2 of building Mistress' hard dodger and YES, as with everything with boats, getting things to this stage took more hard work than anticipated and a lot of sweat, particularly in the very HOT summer had on the Sunny Coast last-this year! At this stage ...

About time that I online surfaced and came back to explain a few things! MUCH GOING ON! Ohh, and for those who had wondered and those who'd asked - No, I do not quit! 😁 ⛵ And for those who are not aware - times have changed A LOT, plus small channels...

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024 EVERYBODY! This IS the year that Mistress is finally launched and actually is planned for this first month of this year! Wishing all of you a happy and great New Year! Mistress is designed by one of the highly respected Dutch naval ar...

UPDATE from the 15th December. Mistress is designed by one of the highly respected Dutch naval architects E.G. Van de Stadt, a Caribbean design, length 40ft/12m, beam 13ft/3.9m, draft 5ft/1.5m. Her hull and decks are built in mild steel and I have built h...

Well people, FINALLY, it arrived! The MOVE OUT of Mistress' boat yard date AND THE LAUNCH DATE!! THIS IS MASSIVE NEWS!! I have been wondering for YEARS, just WHEN that "POINTY END" time was going to come, which would be the signal and trigger for things to...

I FINALLY SHOW YOU THE OUTSIDE OF MISTRESS, as she is now! Also - I fit the door stops for the main lower V berth cabinets; I get ANOTHER/THE FINAL X10 small panels made up, which are also for the V berth cabinets and are now ALL THAT I WILL BE MAKING UP, ...

I CRASHED/HIT THE PROVERBAIL WALL AND REALLY NEEDED A BREAK! I get the main panels for the V berth Port and Starboard cabinets epoxy coated and installed as well as make up some other panels by joining up smaller pieces of what's left of my marine plywood ...

THIS episode is a VERY SIGNIFICANT MILESTONE! 💪 It is all about designing and making up the ULTIMATE/LAST batch of significant furniture fit-out panels, which are for the Port and Starb'd CABINETS in the V berth (Note-not 'lockers' anymore 😁) Mistre...

IT'S A WRAP! Running two Electrical cables; securing multi Anti-Chafe; installing more Insulation and the main panels for the Fridge-Freezer space, Fancy head cabinet Shelves as well as the final Navigation desk panels - meaning that the 'Penultimate batch...

I explain some 'Post-it notes' house-keeping and finalise some details work for the X4 install areas that make up this penultimate batch of fit-out work, including some more top-coat spray-painting, fitting a panel beam, installing shelf supports and then ...