Things have been a bit slow at the moment what with this thing called Christmas coming along.

You just may remember that I got this kit back in 1996, in the instructions is said cut out the forward deck housing access in the deck so that any ballast that is needed can be placed via this point, no such markings were on my deck, so after building the deck housing I used the housing to make the access frame, this I then fixed to the deck and cut out the access into the deck job done.

As I have now fixed most of the deck fittings I started to paint the deck, this is were I run into a bit of a problem the paint that I used in the start is so old Nelson had both eyes when I purchased it, and this new paint does not like the old paint, as they used to say on the radio "Back to square one" do I make a round trip of 40 miles for a tin of paint and may be find some other parts that I just may need at some time in the future, or do I look in my old stock for a different colure?

Time for a lay down.

Fred

😜Hi

Its been some time since I have posted anything on this build.

Having decorated the ensuite, I have restarted work on the Wacht AM Rehine,

I made window frames for the foredeck housing, and started on cladding a planking what I call the Bandstand.

Fred

Thank you for your comments.

I have done the top in Mahogany and the rest in cedar, I will be fitting porthole rod's and grab rails as well.

Over the last ten days I have only been able to get out to the garage for a short time to work on the boat, I have done most of the cladding on the deck housings and I think that it is an improvement.

I have enclosed a before and after, looking forward to your comments so don't hold back.

SWMBO has said the the Ensuite bathroom needs a new coat of paint so that will be next weeks job. ( maybe Battle Ship Grey)

Fred

Hi
Just a quick update, as the weather has been fine for the last few day's I took opportunity to paint the hull, now these are not the colures that are recommend by Dean's, but they are going to be my new tug fleet colures👍.

Fred

As yesterday (02/10/2020) was a wet and windy day I moved in doors,
I turned my hand to the deck winch, now this all white metal, the one thing I did was to replace one of the rods for a brass one just to make it a bit more rigid, when finished it was back out to the garage were I sprayed it satin black.

Fred

As I said in an earlier post I was not happy with the way they looked painted, so I spent some time trying out how they would look cladded, this is how it turned out.

Fred .

I should have put this before "Got fed up"

One thing that I did was to mark out the hatch openings from the plan so that I would have all the deck beams in place before fixing the decks,

Deck fitted, I cut out the hatch opening's in the stern deck, now in the instructions it mentioned a hatch opening in the fore deck, but there are no markings for were to cut out the opening, so I decided to leave it as is.

With all the deck beams fitted and deck fitted I found out that the shaft was short by a few inches which put the motor under the deck, also the rudder servo was also in the wrong place. (not a good thing)

(Think that this is now back on track🤞)

I got fed-up with trying to get the decks to fit with out filler but in the end I got them to fit, I then moved on to the deck housings, as they are just a series of box's.
I painted a few of them but just did not like the out come, now as I had some strip left over from another boat I decided to use that to clad them.

I must mention that before I fitted the deck beams I fitted the motor mount.
I used the one that is supplied in the kit, I fixed some of the 1/4 x1/4 timber to the underside of the mount, as I am not a fan of the hook and rubber band method for fixing of the motor, I like to fix my motor's with a strip of brass over the motor and then bolted to the motor mount, (sorry I do not have any photos) the motor is a 385 from dean's. I lined up the motor with an alignment tool that a mate made for me.

I then moved onto the battery box I glued some ply into the hull and again I used the good old 1/4 x1/4 to make the box you can see that I used an old eight cell battery just for sizing this will be replaced with a six volt when the time comes.
I also used spring lever connectors as a temp fix, these will be replaced at a later date.

Next time fixing the Deck.🤞