Generator and drawers

Build day 85

A cocooned diesel generator with hospital silencer

 Work has been going on all last week to complete the fitting of the diesel generator below Yarwood's tug deck.   Work continues to sort out  discreet venting for this 7.2kva  beast. 

 Also brackets for the Hurricane central heating boiler have been welded in so sometime this week that will be fitted as well.

And above stairs....the side steps are coming along nicely.  The drawers are made and fitted they just need the finishing touch of fronts and furniture.

Taps...for Lisa

Brass monobloc for the galley - apologies for the quality of the images but they were lifted from the B&Q website, thank you B&Q

Lisa has asked me to show the taps we bought yesterday for Yarwood, and here they are.

Single lever pillar style for the glass wash basin in the shower room.

Floor covering and progress..

Build day 80
Yesterday morning Joe and I went into Kidderminster to select the taps for the galley and the showeroom as well as to find and order floor coverings for Yarwood.

We have opted not to have solid wood floor covering, lovely as it is, in this boat.   We have chosen a tough, 15 year guaranteed, vinyl for the shower room and galley.   The reasons for that choice is that it is waterproof, it is non slip, it is warm to walk on and it is quiet to walk on, especially if you have four paws with claws attached!!
 In the saloon we are fitting tough velour type carpet tiles; once again experience tells us that these type of carpet tiles are so easy to live with.  They are as tough as old boots, they are versatile, waterproof and practical, e.g. you can lift one if necessary and hose it down outside, dry it on the boat roof and put it back, job done.

The shopping done we then went to see the progress on Yarwood and deliver the new taps.

Richard had progressed the 'fitted furniture' in the back cabin.  The bed'ole is taking shape and Richard was beginning to construct the table cupboard that traditionally sits alongside.

Top step in place

The drawer carcases  that will fit into the steps -  all on soft-close runners

And the newly arrived little addition for the back cabin, the Faversham stove, arrhh, cute or what?

Worktops, stairs and bed'oles

Build day 79

Portside galley worktop, glued and cramped.

The planks that were being prepared yesterday have now been glued and cramped together to formed the solid wood worktops.

Starboard galley worktop also glued and cramped

 The steps (stringers?) for the side stairs

 The side stairs now framed

 Richard has made progress on the bed'ole, all 5' of it.

Richard refining the bed base

more refinement...

Frames and planks

Build day 78

Our task yesterday morning was to see if we could source a shallow shower tray and a shorter shower enclosure, shorter than the norm that is.  Our original plans were to have a pentagonal shower tray, possibly made to measure out of stainless steel because that would allow the wetwall boards we intend to use in place of tiles to be fitted 'inside' the tray - nullifying the  possibility of leaks.  Things changed when Stuart our boat fitter had concerns about the finish quality of a stainless steel tray and the difficulty of creating a watertight seal with the bi-fold doors we wanted.  The framing for a bi-fold is designed to be fitted at a 90 or 180 degree angle, a pentagonal tray doesn't present those angles..  So it was rethink time.  With tape measures and pencils we crowded into the space set aside for our shower room and re planned and yesterday I found the right stuff...
From www.bathempire.com I was able to get a 900x900 quadrant shower enclosure that is only 1810mm tall and a shower tray that is a mere 40mm thick.

Hardwood framing for the cupboards

Yesterday afternoon we went up to see Yarwood again.

More hardwood framing

Richard had been out buying more wood and was busy with John preparing it to make the worktops for the galley.

Fiddly finishing touches in the back cabin -

Space for the drawers under the side bed in the back cabin

Taking shape

Build day 77

Richard Hubery of Daddy's Boat Company has been busy building Yarwood's back cabin

Richard had progressed the back cabin.  The side bed/seat has been built including the internal structure for accommodating two decent sized drawers under the seat.  The apertures for the drawers are just in front of where Richard is standing.  Given that Yarwood is being built as liveaboard boat  every option for easy access and, not so easy access, is factored in.

Richard has built a hatch into the side bed/seat base - yet more storage options

This cupboard will provide access to the toilet cassette, storage for extra toilet cassettes and a made to measure home for the vacuum cleaner and assorted cleaning stuffssss

Progress in the galley - shelves fitted in the full height cupboard

The profile for the side steps. 

The side steps which are immediately adjacent to the galley are going to be a set of drawers, three steps, three drawers, a galley annex almost....

Bodies everywhere..

Build day 76

We went up to see Yarwood yesterday afternoon.  There were bodies everywhere working on different bits of her.  In the hold a chap was fitting filler pipes to the secondary diesel tank and the water tank, having already fitted the filler pipe to the main diesel tank.    In the galley, John was awaiting us for a decision on the shelving we wanted while Terry was working in the storage area ( we had drawn up a plan of this area over the weekend).

The engine had been positioned and bolted down on its oak bearers and Richard had made a start on the back cabin.

Engine in place on its new oak bearers

Floor down in the back cabin

Starboard side of the galley - we had just marked off where the shelves should be fitted.

Meanwhile, the Hurricane central heating unit had been delivered as well as the Tiffany style saloon lighting.