Amazingly warm weekend on the River Yealm. Great to be out on Nightingale again after much too long sat at the marina.

The main saloon space on Tectona is coming along. You can see the bunk sides, the lower ones are reclaimed pitch pine church pews. The first bits of the galley went in today and our metal fabricator, Mike built a gimballing frame for the big oven.

This is the new structure to go over the aft hatch on Tectona. Amazing work by Jules one of the boatbuilders working on Tectona's refit. It's made from teak and cedar. The doors just got finished today. The clinker style roof is pretty cool!

The right criticised the slogan defund the police as being too radical, but apparently defunding absolutely friggin' everything but the police is just grand.

Got a new portrait of Billy for Xmas.

Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945.
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)

Nightingale in flight.

#sailing #gaffrig #ferrocement #colinarcher

My view from the window this morning. Two Colin Archers in the mist. Doris in the foreground, a ferro replica and Tectona behind, all teak built 1928 on a beach in Calcutta.

#sailing #woodenboats #ferrocement

Billy with the caulking irons getting on with some deck repairs on Tectona.

#sailing #cats #woodenboats

Billy at the helm of Tectona.

#sailing #cats #boatcats

Why are people using skeet instead of bleat?

"I spent the afternoon bleating on the internet" is much more of an accurate description of social media use.

Nightingale in Polperro this summer. Good to remember these moments as storm Bert has us rocking like crazy and the noise of the wind whistling through the masts and rigging on the yard batters the senses.

Just two hairy fellas living the #yachtlife

My cat's the literal boss.