Making the stands (of which the lads were justifiably proud!) took until about lunch-time;
at which point we returned from a generous but light collection of humus and pitta and all things middle-Eastern to start on the fiddly, messy and generally horrible job of glassing the bow and stern tanks on both boats. I hate fibre-glassing!
which left us with the main inner hulls to do either side of a rather late supper.
Setting up for which we found ourselves very tight for fibre-glass and, finishing which (a centre section on each boat only), we decided that we were too short for resin to continue and very tight for fabric anyway.
A message left on web-sites overnight confirmed that ordering more of our particular resin, next-day delivery, was the way to go. We shall add some more cloth to the order......
BUT, Sunday, 14th August was a very GOOD day. Rachael was up early to the shops! We left by 09.45 to go to church where baby Olivia was Christened. It was a very moving service, led by Nick Pang. Two things struck me; this sentence after the signing with the oil...And the reading in French buy Olivia's Mum and in English by her Dad, of a letter they have been asked to write to her, to find in the future, explaining to her what they will become of their decision to have her baptised.
Lovely, slightly gooey, family words but showing an insight and reverence that many families don't show.
Back home, gunwales dry fitted and beginning the process of making the decks. We're having to recess the inwales to accept the decks lower than the outwales.
Beckie is learning to use a spokeshave and a chisel; Lucas is deeply useful measuring and clamping and cutting out!
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