Boat Build Week 13

Mixed feelings today as we headed up the motorway to Liverpool, a mixture of excitement and sadness. Sadness because this would be our last visit to Aintree Boats for a while, we will really miss the weekly pilgrimage to see Hobbit being built. It's the whole atmosphere when you arrive, everyone is so friendly and nothing is to much trouble even when your getting in the way to take pictures (Guilty as charged). An added bonus this week was meeting the guys who are doing a great job of fitting Hobbit out.

Now the exciting bit! Hobbit is nearly complete and the launch has been arranged for next Friday (23rd October) cutting it fine, but just in time for our weeks holiday. 

The big difference from last weeks visit was Hobbit's colour, no longer in undercoat but sporting her very shiny topcoats and hull blacking. unfortunately the pictures don't do justice as it's difficult to get the angle as the Beetle Bay is full at the moment.

On the inside, the wet room is complete apart from lights and port hole.

The appliances are being fitted.

We won't see Hobbit again before the launch and so these will be the last pictures of her build progress which is a shame as I would have liked to see everything put back together. The list of things left to do are as follows;

Joinery finished Sunday/Monday
Port holes put in Monday
Painting finished by Wednesday
Engine and drive train Tuesday/Wednesday
Sign writing Tuesday
Electrics connected and inverter fitted Monday

And that's it, still seems a lot to me but apparently for boat builders it's nothing of a job. The next post on here will be pictures of the launch.

Until next time......

Mark & Anne-Marie
NB Hobbit