Work has started on the rear of the boat. First up was sorting out the leaking calorifier (marine immersion heater that heats water with the engine or an electric heating element). Although not a serious problem I'm keen to have a dry hull - I'll sleep better at night. So the calorifier was removed revealing a fair amount of water but no corrosion once the grime was scraped back.
The hull was cleaned out and the rinsed out calorifier given a nice bed of insulation that will also catch any future leaks. On the left is the heating kit we've just got with lots of hot air ducting pipe that I need to install.
I also found some uninsulated metal, obvious with all the damp staining on the wood next to it. This was generously covered in insulation.
The hull around where I was going to build was also scraped out and dried, a job I'm doing as I go throughout the whole boat. The prepared area was then ready for some building:
The kitchen is going to be a galley type based on a boat we'd seen before, that we liked the look of. While I'm constructing the kitchen I'll keep the other as well so we can have a few comforts like cooked food.
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