Calypso by mandolinut - Billing Boats - 1:45

[mandolinut]

Here are two photos showing what I ran into on the starboard side of the chimney regarding the door. I had created a door showing where there was no room for the Calypso decal.

  I created a new smaller rounded door based on photos. 

First chimney door:

 

New Chimney door with room for decal. Also glued stairs being careful to keep stairway parallel with handrails.

Worked some on the transom detail rollers and chalks.

 

[mandolinut]

I did a little more work on the transom today. Added and painted a rail cap and painted the rollers and deck hardware. Feeling good about the progress. 

Just for fun and inspired by the old Cousteau TV series, decided to build an underwater scooter. Cousteau's documentaries were the first time most of us had ever seen such a thing

and they looked to be fun and practical. I used and old plumbing compression grommet, some wire and the cut off end of an art paintbrush for the build. Yet to be painted. The scooter will

end up living in the Avon dinghy along with a dive flag and dive tanks and floats and a gas tank for the outboard.  

 

Here is a screen shot from a Cousteau video.

 

 

Edited yesterday at 08:30 PM by mandolinut
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