Fabricating the platform/veranda outside the front door linking it to the boathouse
Fabricating the platform/veranda outside the front door linking it to the boathouse

Completing the boarding of the Harnser boatshed walk-ways and starting to fabricate the platform/veranda outside the front door, linking it also to the boathouse.

The rain held off today (despite an overnight shower and some rumbling thunder) yet there was terrible flooding, rain and hailstorms in Essex and Suffolk which actually killed some seagulls off the coast!

From dawn to dusk today, I was erecting walk-ways and boarding them and was quite pleased with the result. Up soon after 6.00am this morning but strange to see how dull the light was so that I could hardly see. Out working by 7.00am but spent the first hour just cutting timber and left my hammering until after 8.00am. I first had to finish boarding in the angles on the interior sections and then to fabricate a step for the back door so as to make it easier to get in and out of the boathouse. Then some time trying to figure out how to ram home the posts and form a platform/verandah outside the front door, linking it also to the boathouse.

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In the end, I made up the frame as I went along, fitting it tight to the sewage tank so as to give the tank even more resistance to flotation. Then I formed the angles and formed a socket for each post to retain it as I rammed it home with a sledgehammer as far as it would go before cutting it off level. I started boarding the resulting frame but ran out of daylight and will have to take time to finish this in the morning and form the step up. A visit from Jack today and Mrs Vincent and a neighbour also looked in, but I did not stop. This evening, I drove into Wroxham to get some supplies and telephoned Diana so as she will not expect me until lunchtime at the earliest. The rain held off today (despite an overnight shower and some rumbling thunder) yet there was terrible flooding, rain and hailstorms in Essex and Suffolk which actually killed some seagulls off the coast!