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They look fine to me Keith.

Beautiful set of flanges Mark.

Good tip - thank you Eberhard. Also thank you. Excellent work Phil.

Thank you for all there Christmas and New Year messages, much appreciated. Well the grandchildren are gone and the weather has turned very wintery. The workshop is currently at 5 deg C - 41 deg F so my time working is somewhat limited. I have however been progressing the aft guest cabin. I needed a couple more bedside lights. I also started gluing the mahogany doors to the various panelled walls, followed by door knobs, handles, lamps etc. I also made the large mirror ( currently protected by blue masking tape). With the panels completed I was able to glue them in place with PVA - using more Starbuck sticks and various clamps to hold them. The side panels for the bunks and the various door fronts, shelves etc, went in next. The step (bottom left in the next photo is my best guess at what this area looks like. As explained earlier I don't have any photo's of this location. Next a bit more carpeting. The floor has a slight step in it, presumably to accommodate the curvature of the hull or to trip up the mother in law. (see later comment). With everything in place I did a few shots with the phone camera (restricted by quite limited access). Once again I forgot to clean out the dust. The following it the best shot I could get of the portholes. I then glued in the external port holes (made earlier). Re the floor step. I once spent 2 weeks in the Caribbean on a Dufour charter yacht. I learned to hate it. One of its design innovations was to mount the hot water tank below the starboard bunk. This would have been fine in the arctic but in the Caribbean it rendered it totally unbearable. Unfortunately I drew the short straw and hence spent the fortnight sleeping on deck. This however wasn't its most wonderful design feature. The designer had managed to place a shallow step right across the middle of the cabin (presumably to gain a little addition head height). The step was perfectly positioned to catch the unwary crew member every time they either ascended or descended the steps to the deck. Everyone at some time ended up sprawled across the cabin floor or with their heads wedged between the ladder rung, both events being accompanied by choice expletives.

Happy new year to everyone.

Yes John - we spend all our spare time on the beach at this time of year - very bracing. Happy new year to you and all your countrymen. The kids have just watched the Harbour Bridge fireworks before being packed off to bed. So good of you all to arrange 2026 early to facilitate our child care arrangements. We still have 4 hours 15 minutes to go to 2026 so haven't even started on the booze yet.😀

Mark you do remarkably good metalwork with simple tools, very impressive.

Nice progress Keith. The rails are a little small to prod anyone in the eye.

Very nicely done.

Nicely done

Sounds wonderful. I hope you all enjoyed it.

I will take your word for it Phil. It looks quite tricky to me. Amazing job on th stack.

Very interesring to see how some of the internal features match side to side and how others don't.

Very nice progress Jon and compliments of the season to you.

Yes on line ordering can be problematic. My wife ordered what she thought was a pound of sprouts, we had a delivery of 1 sprout, but to be fair it did have a price tag stuck on it. That would never happen if you went into a shop.

She is looking smart, Merry Christmas to you too Bruce.

All looking very smart John.

Thank you Pat. the grandchildren are in bed and NORAD currently has Santa in Ankara. Not long to go now. Merry Christmas to you all.

Yes that works. I have something similar but have managed to incorporate dust extract. Cheep and cheerful usually works well.

Great tip - Amazon

As you say, paint spraying is best kept out of the kitchen. Great progress and like others i have logged the porthole glass tip.

Thank you friends for all for your good wishes. Rick - is formed from a number of bits of brass wire coiled and then glued to black card. The edges are made from brass strip cut from plate 1/32 thick.

good point

Yes i have always thought I needed a band saw, but I have so many versions of saws I think it would be an indulgence too far. Don't Axminster do a thicknesser? I have always found Metabo tools to be good - Metabo DH330 Bench Top Planer 1800W 240V

Yves - Only through the skylights - which will be very limited. I am assuming that in future everyone will have a nanobot mounted miniature camera. Steve - Good news, I will pass on your assurance to the guests. Pat - I have always wanted to visit Australia but paneling is that enticing. Thank you John, Phil, Druxey, Craig, Eberhard and Keith. I thought I had better own up that today is our 50th wedding anniversary. Ann who is always looking for opportunities to keep me on my toes has just informed me that she has booked a 12 o'clock slot for me to visit our local recycling centre. She says she has something that she wants me to drop off (without being specific about what it is).🥴.