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Our good friend and neighbor Dave was kind enough to spend his weekend helping us with some more carpentry. Dave’s specialty is plumbing, but he has a good handle on all the trades. Having some outside help was a rare treat as we have been doing almost…

Another good weekend. Beautiful weather in Vallejo… hatches open, sun shining in, and finishing more of the carpentry rough-in. Finished the stairs, which was made a little more tricky because the last step had to be built to be removable (to access …

With the engine operational and most of the wheelhouse instrumentation in place, it was time to test the engine driven hydraulics for our big anchor winch. Filled up the hydraulic tank in the engine room and the oil bath for the chain drive on the winc…

I have a little catching up to do… despite a few weeks off for vacation and some other adventures that I don’t have time to get into here, we have been making some good boat progress recently. We kicked into high gear this last week or so. Finished t…

It’s been a busy couple of weeks at work but I’ve managed to squeeze in some good boat building time (a few hours here and there) to get the wheelhouse console finished up. I am taking this particular part of the boat to a finished stage because this w…

Received our USCG paperwork. We are now an officially documented vessel. I’m sure its just a matter of time now till the tax, regulatory, and insurance folks find us. You might notice that the name of the boat is not Koloa. I’ll leave that story for Su…

Most of our effort so far on the interior has been geared towards getting the interior to a “rough-in” stage so we can get all the systems, plumbing, electrical, etc. installed prior to the launch later this year. However, doing things over is a big ti…

Decided to dig into the pile of unfinished doug fir T&G and put up some of the interior side-shell planking. This is the same stuff as we used for the overhead, except we are using the reverse side which has a plain v-groove detail instead of the b…

Back to carpentry for a bit. We are getting close to finalizing the design and layout of the wheelhouse helm. I wanted to get the ceiling done before any of the helm stuff gets built and installed since the ceiling work makes such a mess. Another bonus…

A few recent projects… After successfully test running the engine (in jury rigged form), I set about to run all the wiring between the engine and the wheelhouse, including the control/gauge panel in the engine room. This was rather involved as it als…