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boats are for losers: In Love

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Boats are for losers. Doing up and living aboard our 31m, 1931 Luxemotor Dutch Barge Serenity. Wednesday, 21 December 2011. This past year has gone down in our record books as the toughest ever boat owning year. There have been a lot of days when we talked about selling Serenity. But we still have her and blame this on the stove/central heating that we installed. Being able to dry our clothes on the radiators or in front of the fire is a blessing. Do you have to buy it in? 23 December 2011 at 00:38.

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boats are for losers: 26/12/10 - 02/01/11

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Boats are for losers. Doing up and living aboard our 31m, 1931 Luxemotor Dutch Barge Serenity. Thursday, 30 December 2010. I keep finding myself getting distracted by the exciting things like Shower Pods, sofas or coffee makers. None of which I will spend a penny on until the interior buildingwork is finished. They're the rewards for getting through the grinding part of the renovation. The full-nights' of sleep are the rewards for drydocking. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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boats are for losers: 31/01/10 - 07/02/10

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Boats are for losers. Doing up and living aboard our 31m, 1931 Luxemotor Dutch Barge Serenity. Friday, 5 February 2010. Hatching a plan (chest). This weeks job was making the metal hatch to go over the old skylight in the galley. The old hatch covering was a window with a wooden frame that leaked a lot. It also made the pathway around the wheelhouse on that side really difficult because it meant stepping over the window. Steve then ground the welds flat and I did another pass anywhere where there were sm...

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boats are for losers: Bilge scraping

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Boats are for losers. Doing up and living aboard our 31m, 1931 Luxemotor Dutch Barge Serenity. Friday, 14 October 2011. When we ripped up the floor we found that several plumbing joints were leaking, the central heating system had dumped some of its contents in there and there was a mysterious pipe coming from a mysterious place in the Fo'castle that was constantly dribbling water in there as well. As soon as we got the water out I set about scraping with a spokeshave and a coal shovel. There is no w...

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boats are for losers: 11/04/10 - 18/04/10

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Boats are for losers. Doing up and living aboard our 31m, 1931 Luxemotor Dutch Barge Serenity. Tuesday, 13 April 2010. The bathroom has increasingly not been a nice place to be. The problems are twofold, the skylight leaks when it rains (we had taken the ceiling down around the skylight to see if there was anything we could do but it was just basically rubbish):. Between us we ripped out all the walls and ceiling, helped considerably by the fact that it was all really shoddily built. As you can see from ...

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boats are for losers: 23/10/11 - 30/10/11

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Boats are for losers. Doing up and living aboard our 31m, 1931 Luxemotor Dutch Barge Serenity. Wednesday, 26 October 2011. We had a stove delivered. We are hoping that it will provide hot water for our central heating, and a stovetop for the odd bit of cooking as well as cozy heat in the living room and maybe at some point we'll trap any extra heat in our Domestic Hot Water tank. It's the Dunsley Yorkshire stove with an integral back-boiler. Next step is plumbing the whole system. I am really looking...

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boats are for losers: 02/05/10 - 09/05/10

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Boats are for losers. Doing up and living aboard our 31m, 1931 Luxemotor Dutch Barge Serenity. Sunday, 2 May 2010. We bought some 10mmm diameter steel bolts. And then when Lorna had set up all her welding gear on the deck. I poked the bolts through from below, and held them in place while she spot welded them (i did this with a piece of wood, i like having skin on my fingers! The wood was smoking impressively while she welded). She then added more welds to get the bolts securely attached to the deck.

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boats are for losers: 30/05/10 - 06/06/10

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Boats are for losers. Doing up and living aboard our 31m, 1931 Luxemotor Dutch Barge Serenity. Tuesday, 1 June 2010. So, having cut the hole in the deck. And welded in a lip, we've been waiting for Brian to have chance to build the actual skylight to fit into the hole. A few days ago he delivered the skylight, which he'd built offsite in the workshop,. And then a couple of days later returned to, with Lorna's help, weld it in place over the hole. Monday, 31 May 2010. Wood, Wood Glorious Wood. Had ground ...

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boats are for losers: 16/10/11 - 23/10/11

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Boats are for losers. Doing up and living aboard our 31m, 1931 Luxemotor Dutch Barge Serenity. Sunday, 16 October 2011. The best thing about dry dock (actually the second best thing, the best thing is feeling like we're not going to sink any time soon) was seeing the trandsformation of Serenity from tatty, faded black bitumen, through rusty bare metal, to beautiful freshly painted splendour. For the first time since we bought her i'm proud of the outside of our home. When i'm buildin' windows. Our old sk...

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boats are for losers: no rest for the wicked skills

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Boats are for losers. Doing up and living aboard our 31m, 1931 Luxemotor Dutch Barge Serenity. Sunday, 13 November 2011. No rest for the wicked skills. When we got back from dry dock we should have been able to sit back, relax, and take some time off happy in the knowledge that although we'd had to work insanely hard for two months, non stop, and had almost worn ourselves out completely, we'd achieved what we needed to and were safe and seaworthy. Of course this meant ripping out our bedroom too. We coul...