Adam F

Martin, I'll have a look when I get back if you like, I've been in at Parkstone, the water there too is like mud, but not an issue its enough to see. If it saves you a lift out, happy to help.

Great first day. Jv was a dream on the way over, the new autopilot taking the stress out of driving, the air seat making life comfortable for me and the rest of the crew asleep in the new bunks! Fishing under average but then we have been spolit the past few trips. 8 turbot for the afternoon session. Sat night was the last night of the Alderney festival, so we all enjoyed the party and fireworks last night.

So just to check from a skippers perspective. JV is leaving Poole Sat morning, back Tues afternoon. Tiger fish is also leaving Sat morning from Lymington, but back Monday. Redfin is leaving Portland Sunday, back Tues? Adam

I'm thinking it will get gradually quieter as the weekend progresses anyway. However extra fenders stowed and we too are taking the dingy and outboard. Overnight mooring on the Shoale anyone?

Looking good! Lots to do to get Jv ready, but can't wait!

So with 7 days to go plan A is Alderney sat to tues. plan b is Alderney say to Mon. Plan C is Cherbourg Sat and Sun, plan d is Portland sat and sun. Plan e is go to the pub!

Matt / Peter, I'll drop you a PM. Any other interested parties?

Spent 8 hours on Sat with Dan replacing all of the hydro hoses on the DPH drive. Pig of a job - made worse by the 6 clevis pins that havent moved for 6 years.... cue lots of elbow grease and big hammers. The plus side is that now I know how the leg comes off and how to do most jobs on the leg - will save a fortune in labour going forward. Al also came down and polished the hull for me - top man. Ive rebolted on the radar arch, so now we await next Sat for the shakedown and test runs......

Provided the shakedown and testing goes OK, I'm looking to get JV over to Alderney in Aug. It's been 2 years since I last went! The small tides fall around 8th and 22nd so I'll be looking to work in plan A with Alderney or plan B Cherbourg if the weather only allows 48hrs. Any boats up for buddying?

Before and after pics....

Crane off...

THE BIG DAY.... I've been flat out since first light. With the lorry booked for 2pm, and still plenty of jobs to do, it was time to get cracking. The time flew by with the little jobs.. Hoover all the lockers, last few bits to flowcoat, hatches to bolt back on, remove and strap down radar arch, etc. Before I knew it, Percy arrived and we began to strap her up ready to be lifted over the 300 year old workshop, all went without issue and soon we were strapped down ready to go, after a tense 15 mins trying to manoeuvre out of my single track lane onto the main road, he was out and on the way to Poole. We arrived without issues at 5pm, the boys in the hard were great and we soon had her off and found a suitable trailer. A quick dip in the water to check... Nervous times, would she float, would she be biased to one side, would she sit bow down?..... Needn't had worried, she sat slightly bow higher than before (suggesting slightly lighter) and was bob on level. Perfect, and now I can sleep tonight! She's now nestled back on her dry berth ready for new hydro hoses on Sat and then sea trial and few last jobs over the weekend. Take away and a bottle of wine to celebrate tonight! 10 months and 10 days, over 350 separate items ordered and purchased, and I estimate about 1000 man hours and I'm there. A huge thanks to all white have helped me but special mention to Rob, and Bob who I would still be working away now if it wasn't for them, and also to Pete Russell, not only for all of the special fabrications he made, but also the endless advice and also the inspiration, as I'd never have built either boat without knowing him. Looking forward to getting her afloat in the next few days.

THE FINAL PUSH! With the haulage booked for Thurs afternoon, a mad rush today to get the final few bits finished. I opted to fit the safety flooring myself in the end, and to be fair was pretty straight forward. After being in Scotland for 2 days this week I'm came back to it nicely bonded. So flush trimmed the hatches and then turned my attention to the silicone edge beads. After some careful masking they came out looking ace, very pro! The other job today was to re gel the deck and walkways. They have previously been done in a horrible light blue, so que lots of masking, cleaning and flow coating. All was well until I had a little accident...... After 10 months and well over 1000 times up and down the scaffolding around the boat, tonight I was rushing and missed the top rung.... My leg was trapped and I fell sideways I put my hands put to protect my head, which worked to an extent, but I've ended up with mild concussion, a large gash across my wrist and bad grazing pretty much all over. [emoji22] After an hour or so sit down I patched myself up and finished the deck coat, in somewhat pain..... So tomorrow she goes and I'm left with half a dozen bits to sort before she is ready for the sea, so near yet so far!

Bang on Steve. £520 for 6 dinky little hoses... Ouch. Then probably another £200 in labour to get them fitted., as its a leg off job :-(()))

Steve, pleased they went before I launched really, we were only commenting in the morning that they looked perished. I've found the steering hoses 21548719 which come as a set of 4, but what I cant locate is the trim hoses? Are the little ones in behind the steering hoses part of the main hose back to the pump, or are they separate ones? Anyway, hoping to get them ordered and have a go fitting them on Friday. Boat launch now put forward to Thurs. Hoping props will stay shiney for a while, dont forget she lives our of the water! Re. Trim, I've rebuilt the entire loom, with new relays and tested the system back to the HCU, all fine. 12v to the motor has it running fine. So its either the switch or the EVC Adam

If you hang on a few weeks I've loads of kit here if we have a bring and buy?

Sorry for the lack of updates, if you didn't guess we've been pushing flat out with the haulage booked for next sat. It's been a case of 2 steps forward one step back this past few weeks . The list of 30 odd 'easy' jobs have been steadily ticking off, but it's the main jobs that have been the issue. Dan serviced the engine on Sat, and as Rob suggested it took us an hour or so to get it started after realising that it won't start with the engine trimmed up! The tilt trim still isn't working, despite me rebuilding the entire loom, and bob spending several hours on it. We suspect the switch or EVC, it will be a job to get sorted once launched. The £1000 volvo trims tabs only work half, one doesn't work at all. Disappointing. One of the Roca wiper motors sheared a shaft when fitting and the supplier is out of stock, the order isn't in for another 2 weeks. Apart from that it's all good! As she stands this evening, and on top of what Rob and Bob did yesterday, she has been cleaned today, I've fitted the vinyl flooring, and completed all the of the last fiddly tasks. All that now remains is to laminate the new engine box lid, re gel the cockpit in grey, and give the whole boat a cut and polish. I'll fix the trim and tabs once launched. The only other downer on the weekend was the hydro hose that split on Sat when running up the system and dumping 2l of ATF on the driveway. Now I need to shell out £500 on hoses and labour to get them replaced. :-( On the plus side, I get my life back next Sat. Can't wait! Oh... Forgot to mention the supernatural experience both Rob and I both had last night... I'm not in anyway superstitious... But this was weird!

One thing I forgot to mention in all of this, if I wasn't busy enough.... Was that 2 weeks ago a litter of puppies arrived... That's been a full time on in addition to this to contend with! This weekend was less than half a day of work, as Rach has been doing a triathlon and other charity stuff over the weekend. More of the same, just ploughing through the never ending list of little snags. Fitted the last few bits of teak, although they all now need a final sand and fill to blend in, another few hours work! It's never ends. Polished up the duo props today. They came up lovely. Then spent a while cleaning down the outdrive. Really pleased with how this all cleaned up. Finally got the hoses, pumps and outlets for the freshwater system run and fixed in. Very nearly looking like a finished boat now :-)

Quick update from the past 2 evenings. Now the return haulage is booked it adds a bit of pressure to get sorted and these last jobs always seem to take longer than it might seem. Last night I loomed away the last few cable runs, so everything now sits neatly away. Tonight I've installed the gas system, again, 3 hours work to get it all neat and tidy. The last pic is of the underside of the hob unit and explains the benefit of doing this myself.... No gas hoses coiled away in lockers in.... All runs clipped away securely.. Maybe a bit OCD, but as least I know its a quality job.

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Another weekend, another full on 2 days of building..... Huge thanks to Rob, once again for dashing over and missing the Open comp to labour for me again. We deserved that 36oz steak last night! Rob has covered all the major detail. With the haulage date now set, I'm left with about 30 snagging jobs to finish. The plus side of these is that they aren't major projects, so it's possible to do a few in a day. Getting a vinyl flooring fitter was proving tricky, but with an extra pair of hands and two heads on the job, I'm stoked with the result. I've trimmed in the floor hatches today. This Altro flooring is reinforced with Ali clippings for grip, and boy it it cruel on tools. Went through several stanley blades and 2 flush router bits trimming it today. I've finished the heads now, so grey flowcoat around the floor, easy to wipe clean and fully waterproof, ideal for hanging wet weather gear in to dry. In here also, ive tidied up the TV cables in some neat ducting ( good idea rob ) I've also finished off the last few bits of teak trim today, which make a huge improvement to the overall finish.

Once again, lack or update, just been pushing hard to finish her. Two big milestones this week. First off, after a monumental effort in getting most of the wiring in, Bob has gone for a much needed holiday, so early this week I've cracked on, and finished off the wiring, the big bonus is that apart rom the fridge, everything works! Mega impressed with the simple, plug and play Garmin system. Easy and simple to use, plus I've upgraded all the software so we are all current. The other big step is booking the haulier. Percy is very busy, so the date has been set for 18th July. Later than I had wanted but, say least I can service the engine and get every last job done before launch.

My apologies for the lack of update for ages. As the summer kicks in, I've been working more than flat out to get her finished and have called in a host of favours. Bob has been up most nights to help with the mountain of wiring, Rob has done loads of full days up here, and Ian has been up too. I've given up the evenings to post on here to be our working. Rather than post up a detailed report of what we have done, I'm just going to do a photo dump. As you would imagine things have kept on a huge way, we now have power to the boat, and as of today we have tested all systems, all good thus far.... But the finishing / snagging list still runs into 50+ http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/06/20/ffd142e520b79321c5410edfcc2189fc.jpg http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/06/20/9ce3ae948e0f939e97ffc4dc2a5d9867.jpg http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/06/20/16978e42c181eb3b0784693f53cd652d.jpg

Al popped up today whilst I was working from home with a fresh cod from Sunday. What a star! Whilst here, I put the extra pair of hands to good use and we fitted the wiper motors, all of the headlining and down lighters, removed the old graphics and started to bolt on the new swim platform.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This belongs to a friend of a friend, as is suspect arson. Kids were seen leaving the scene with cans of petrol etc...