So, a month has gone by since I’ve updated the blog. Time zooms along and lucky for us so does progress on Mahdee. With structural work completed in late June, July saw mostly longboarding the hull and prepping/finishing woodwork on the exterior. Inside, we have worked on ladders and re-installing the sole as well as painting the bilge, and installing the anchor locker–a Chinese puzzle designed by John and the last thing he worked on before leaving us July 3rd to spend the summer in Canada. We’ll miss him but we were glad that he was able to stick with the project through the completion of important structural work.

David and I will be moving aboard Mahdee (while she’s still in the boatyard) on August 1st. So, we’ve been also quite focused on the things needed to simply “live” on the boat. Like say, a platform for the bed in the stateroom…Beamer, the cat, won’t be pleased with roughing it on the sole, a bed must be in place before his arrival on the scene!

This weekend we shifted things from the storage unit at a nearby military base to the boatyard (the vanished deck hatches for example) and things from the studio apartment to the storage unit (work-related optics equipment and winter clothes). During the week, David will build some shelves in a garage we’ve rented to store extra wood in. We cannot store “obvious flammables” like say…paper, chemicals, etc..in the military storage unit. We expect to store wood in the garage for about 3-5 months after the launch of Mahdee as we will continue to work on interior fitting during that time. After he’s built the shelves we can get the wood up off the garage floor and have room to store some of our tools and things we’ve kept at the studio. Its sort of musical chairs with the studio “going away” on August 1st.

More stories later in the week and hopefully some pic’s too.