Friday, January 28th

Yesterday was another day full of work.  The expression "Early to bed, early to rise" applies to us now.  Hey!  This wasn't supposed to be work!  Don't pay any attention to that...we are both having the time of our lives doing something that we ENJOY doing.

Carter finished the pressure washing, repaired some spots with epoxy and then began priming.  He has also begun creating the new pilot house.

Bear in mind that this is work in progress.  You have to start somewhere.

In fact it has already changed.  I have to get back out with the camera.

As for me...I worked inside on the starboard wall of storage.  Love, love, love this.  It is surprising how well this boat has cleaned up.  The insides of the drawers have all been lined with contact paper and it is still in good shape.  I don't plan to change that...it cleaned up just fine.  In fact, so many little details of this boat are simply amazing.  This boat was built to last...and it has.  We plan to create a page a little later on highlighting some of the amazing craftmanship that has gone into this boat.

I cleaned all the woodwork inside and cleaned the walls on the port side.  It's a lot of work that is well worth the effort.  It all cleaned so well.

We had our first HGTV moment the other night.  Carter wanted to see if there was another tank below the carpet towards the bow of the boat and pulled up the carpet.

Whoa!  Is that parque flooring?  Yeah!  I promised Carter the the nasty a$$ blue indoor/outdoor carpet would be gone the next day and I kept that promise.  Wow!  What a find.

I love the floor rather than the carpet.  We plan to get a couple of area rugs for the salon and Carter is going to extend the parquet into the passage way to cover that area without obstructing the doors to the mechanical room.  Just for the record, this is not actual parquet flooring, but rather square tiles replicating parque...it works for me!   

Carter is talking about redoing the floor in the salon with tile but this is later when we take the beds out and replace with a sitting area. We will move the bed area into the now dinette.  We would rather have more living area than sleeping.  One bed is sufficient for us.  Currently there are 3 beds (2 permanent and the dinette area).

One issue...We cannot figure out how the dinette converts to a bed.  I see that Thomas Henderson, the creator of this fine vessel is following this blog.  Mr. Henderson, could you leave a comment on how that is accomplished?  Obviously the two small cushions fit onto the table and the large cushions will fill in the sides.  We see how the each of the seat backs fold down but have not found how they stay in place at the correct level.  There has to be legs?  I would look forward to a comment from you on this.  There is an option at the bottom of this post for comments.  Feel free to leave your comments anytime.  That goes for anyone!