Tamarisk Home Page	Progress during 1999 1997 1998 2000/1 2002 2003 2004 2005	Tamarisk Home Page
Click on photos for a bigger picture. Click on browser 'back' button to return to main document. 1 2 3 4	The work on this page was completed in the first nine months of 1999 while Denys was fit and well. Picture 1. The hull cleaned up ready to take the chart table bulkhead, which we measured up for and Denys cut it out of the plywood stored at his home. Picture 2. Denys checking that I'd set up the chart table bulkhead correctly ready for me to glass it in. Picture 3. The bulkhead in place and other bulkheads on the port side Picture 4. The chart table and stove front panels in place Picture 5. The chart table Picture 6. The heat exchanger for providing hot water when the engine is running Picture 7. The space for the stove Picture 8. General view of the port side furniture	Click on photos for a bigger picture. Click on browser 'back' button to return to main document. 5 6 7 8
9 10	Attention now turned to the starboard side. Picture 9. The bunk removed Picture 10. The mast starboard bulkhead removed and some cleaning up ready for installing new bulkheads. Note the 'prop' to support the mast and sheet, which were quite heavy. Picture 11. The starboard mast support bulkhead glassed into place and the forepeak side panel. Picture 12. The port side panel in place in the forepeak Note the port cockpit seat propped up at the side of the hull. The bunk top is in place not yet glassed in.	11 12
The sink and the cupboard below concealing the heat exchanger and cabin heater paraffin tank. The hole in the panel is for he pipe to the heater, which bolts on to the toilet bulkhead.	The quarter berth and locker on the right is the view up the tunnel of the quarter berth. The marine toilet is being stored here at this time	The main cabin bunk, top looking aft and above looking forward. You can se the 'trotter box' clearly, i.e. the hole for the occupant's feet.
	In May I crewed with Peter Hosking in Norman's Dheler 25 on the Clyde. In August I sailed with Norman and Frank to Whitehaven via Ravenglass On the left is the fuel tank bracket in position and on the right the fuel tank is in place at last.
The support for the aft end of the constant velocity shaft glassed in and ready for painting. The engine on the boat ready for lowering into place.	September Between Sunday 5th and Tuesday 7th all my tools and some boat parts were stolen from the boot of our car. A tiny hole was made below the lock, didn't notice it until I opened the boot on Tuesday and found it empty. I just couldn't believe it but no amount of staring at the empty boot brought them back. Everything had gone, literally everything, the boot as completely empty! The insurance coughed up around £1000 to cover the loss and even though this meant I got some good new tools we lost a lot of boat parts and some irreplaceable tools. By now, I'm not sure when - I'm writing this in 2005 - Denys had become ill and was in hospital where I visited him and discussed the next steps. He'd collapsed at the wheel of his car, with Helen as passenger, on the motorway on the way to Luton earlier in the year. With hindsight I think the family knew how ill he was but they didn't tell me, no doubt Denys didn't want me worried. October  Whilst Denys was in hospital we'd picked the engine up out of his workshop and installed it into the boat with the eager help of some of my friends at the boat club. By installed I mean we'd lifted it into place in the boat on to its mountings but it wasn't connected up in any way.	The engine well painted with white polyester resin The engine in place
	The next to the last piece of deck to be glassed in was the aft deck.  I was particularly pleased about the way it turned out. On the right is the boat wrapped up for the winter.
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