New Boat!

is your house the new freeman factory BB?

DIY seat cover kit 
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There's an awful lot of fiddly measuring and cutting here!

You are clearly a man of many talents! I am happier with a grinder in my hand than a needle!

I prefer spanners! 

Minerva wrote:You are clearly a man of many talents! 

 Maybe, but I'm definitely a man of few pounds (sterling) 

All done...
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All in for around 50 quid and plenty of fabric left over for a wheel cover and some cushions.

Minerva wrote:is your house the new freeman factory BB?

It's starting to look that way!
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If anyone is thinking of suggesting that maybe I need another boat to store everything in, please don't! 

New "quarterdeck" ...
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and the rest of the cockpit seat back in place...
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With the new "quarter covers" to hide the ugly pipework.
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It's nice to be finally at the stage where I'm starting to put things back together.

is that carpet on the walls?

It is unfortunately. I've not intention of removing it this year; it could be one of those "can of worms" jobs.

Looks great, like the corner covers, does the canopy fold down flat ok as looks a bit tight for the canopy to tuck under.

The covers are flush with the transom so shouldn't reduce the storage space for the canopy. This photo gives a better idea of how they fit...
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The lamps don't work because of poor continuity in the weather-proof connectors. Unfortunately, in early versions at least, the female sockets are the split spring type and perversely the plugs are not, which means the plugs (logically I would have hoped) cannot be levered apart to create a tighter connection. 
And then again it may be the bulb connection where the little springs are lazy. Part of Mr Freeman's long term intention to keep his owners busy! God never meant you to have time for drinking G & T's continuously. Boating pleasure involves some work!

Edit - Oops, I was still reading posts on page 1. It keeps happening. Sorry. Might be the Alzheimer's clicking in....

From tatty billy can...
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To custom horn...
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Why? Because it weighs half as much as the trumpet horn I have and I wanted to avoid stressing the repaired bracket...
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Oh yes, and it cost me nothing 

Yeah yeah, very nice. 
Perfectly obvious really. 
The hard bit must have been getting the right number of holes to make it work? lol

Salut!

Never seen one like that at Sheridan's.... Dual purpose,  good for straining the sprouts at dinner time
       

F23 flittermouse wrote:Never seen one like that at Sheridan's....

And you never will! 

133 holes BTW.

The binnacle, controls and instrument panel went in today...
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I think I can now see light at the end of the tunnel 

nice varnish work!

Today we fitted the re-chromed hand-rail stop ends...
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Can you spot the silly mistake?

Adding the mast, flag staff and other bits it is at last starting to look like a boat and not an "unfinished project"..
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You might have to remove the plug off the extension lead?
Lol
Seriously though BB you have done a brilliant job. I bet you are really chuffed with the end result and you should be. It’s brilliant to take a hopeless case and turn it into a gem. I think you are a freeman hero,  mate. Brilliant.
When I took my project on I was going to be diligent about the accounting costs but I have totally not written anything down. I am rubbish! Also I haven’t documented my progress like you have for the forum .... yes I am rubbish.  Today I filled transducer holes in the hull and I should have taken photos but I forgot. Hey ho. Thanks for sharing your progress though.
The only thing I don’t like is your sieve horn...everything else is brill.

Well spotted! There's a crate of champers on the way.  
Many thanks for the compliments although I wouldn't have called it a hopeless case. "Tired and unloved" would be a better description. Actually it was one of the better ones I went to view and really the only one where the price matched the condition. So in fairness I started with a sound base.
I haven't bothered keeping a running total either. I think it's just pointless when I bought it for the fun of renovating and sailing it during the summer.
Re the horn; I think you'd like the sound it makes 

BotleyBouy wrote:
Re the horn; I think you'd like the sound it makes 

 Ha ha! Well that’s the most important thing!

She looks lovely 


Now all you have to do is decide which meet you’re going to bring her to

Thames?

Would make quite a trip by boat