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Thanks mate, fortunately the timber was like that already! It makes hiding cables easy too! That’s great advice about the upholstery, I’ll definitely get both of those things done on these as I plan to be staying in it a fair amount :D We ended up getting a 120ah AGM as it fits in the side v berth s...

We have now taken Tikirri out over 10 times and stayed aboard a few nights! We’ve been having a lot of fun and looking forward to the sailing season haha. I plan to paint the hull when time allows but for now I’ve put in a decent sized AGM battery, a switch board and some excellent warm LED light st...

This is Lake Illawarra! (Wollongong Area)
Awesome scenery with the escarpment to the west and heaps of jellyfish!

If you ever go I recommend the boat ramp north of the lake in Berkeley, it’s not in google maps.

Some photos snapped from the drone this weekend on Lake Illawarra!

Tikirri is back again!

We’ve been out on 7 sails so far and got an overnighter coming up this weekend!

Got some paint to re-do the sides and bottom of the boat for now and probably do the top when it’s too crapy to sail

Here is some photos from the drone today!

Look forward to seeing what you do Ozzie and thanks for the link, I’ve seen cruiserpetes stuff and it’s very inspiring! It looks like he has one piece of Perspex per window (2 pieces per side) but I can’t see why my idea wouldn’t work using his method. The worst case scenario is instead of one large...

I’ll certainly look into it.
I could just trace the window shape onto them and jigsaw. I’ve seen these runners which look fairly easy to use which hold the window in flush with the material

The current windows are not recessed as someone ended up making some oversized ones which are glued and screwed on
I’ll just make some like this but no screws and they’ll go the full length

I won’t be messing with the pillars, I can see they are probably quite structurally integral haha

Ok so Im strongly contemplating painting Tikirri but there is a lot of think about before hand! One thing I want to do is replace the windows as they are super wonky and probably cut by hand haha. They are screwed on the outside with silicone sandwiched between which is leaking a bit too lol. I have...

Sounds great Ed. It does become addictive. I still remember our first sail. Quiet day. Only intended to put the main up and just get the feel of it, maybe for 20 minutes. After 5 minutes we had the genny flying and didn’t come back for three hours. Enjoy 😊 I won’t be forgetting our first sail but f...