Build Gallery-3

As the year is fast approaching work has continued up to and through the festive activities, Ray Milliken has completed the running gear that has now been fitted into the hull and the last of the fibre glass strengthening has been applied, the pictures below (apologies for the quality, had to use the camera on the mobile phone) working from transom to bow show the quantity of fibre glass used to provide strength to the shafts and the 'A' frames as they break through the hull structure. Another coat of resin was applied to the whole of the inside of the transom half to provide additional strength, the forward half will be done on the 31^st December 2009.
		For those of you that are interested we have laid about a kg of fibre and resin to this half alone.
Below a picture of the transom end, on end, enabling you to see the running gear on the underside of the hull. Additional pictures taken showing the build up of fibre glass where the shafts and small 'A' frames break through the hull. The last picture is a nice shot of the electric motors mounted at he end of the shafts. (29^th December 2008)

John Adams who has been working on the bridge has described it as being a "sod" has kindly sent in the following photographs showing his work to date. The final should be spectacular if this is the standard of work at this interim stage, we look forward to seeing more photographs from John as he progresses. (30^th December 2008)

On a very cold Saturday morning, so cold that garden hose was frozen and needed a defrost before we could commence filling the pool. This is the second water test the two halves of the hull have had, but this time they were ballasted to ensure that we could keep both sections submerged for an hour or so. We can report that except for a small amount of water that came through the jointing bolts that no water entered either half. A 100Kg of pea shingle were used to ballast the hull . (3^rd January 2009)
		To the left you can see the transom half fully ballasted and Peter Clayton and Brian Dengate on looking. To the right both halves in the paddling pool and to the far right the neighbours cat, tinker, decided to come and investigate.
Some more photographs below from John Adams showing the progress on the bridge section. (4^th January 2009)

The pictures below are from Richard Gardner and have been taken part way through the build of the deck structure to hold the Sea Wolfe High Speed Vertically launched missile system. At this early stage there is very little detail added yet but the front bulkhead supports are all in place. (6^th January 2009)

Below are some pictures that were taken at the 3^rd progress meeting, this was a very exciting time as major sections of the boat came together, from left to right, 1^st Picture: Richard Gardner, Brian Dengate and Peter Clayton looking on. 2^nd Picture: Matt Mock trying to obtain that perfect shot, with Nick Clayton in the background. 3^rd Picture: It's not only the ship that has had to be built, but the packing boxes for storage. 4^th and 5^th Pictures: some of the people involved in the build looking on. (7^th January 2009)