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Rebuilding part of the frame and roof

Here we are again,
It’s been a long time since we wrote on the blog, but where back. The engine is still not running, because we are focusing on finishing the work on the main cabin (see photo’s). The first (and hardest to do) pice of the roof is now in place. It was a lot of work to change the entrance of the cabin to the left side, but it all worked out in the end! The roof itself is also placed perfectly as we hoped it would. No leaking in this boot anymore when were done with it…
We also took a little vacation (Justin to Sweden, Tidave to Turkey) and when we returned there was a little surprise for us. All the windows were placed in the walls of the cabin by Paul ;-). We still have to permanently place them and make them waterproof, but the sunlight is back inside the Seadog!

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Engine preparations

This weekend we did a lot off preparations for the engine. We bought two new cylinders for the engine and we cleaned the engine so that we could repaint it. After painting the engine we toasted with a glass off dark rum.

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Engine

So we finally lifted the engine out off its spot. It took us a while cause some of the bolts wouldn’t come out so easily. They were so old and rusty that sometimes they didn’t look like bolts anymore. Some of them we had to even saw through. With three strong guys like us :p lifting the engine wasn’t so hard. Now we are scraping all the old paint off and will clean it so that we can repaint it.

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Taking apart the engine

Last week and the week before we started to take apart the engine. Lucky for us Paul (my dad) was there for to help us along. We both don’t know anything about engines (yet). So Paul helped us with the parts that needed to be taken out first and told us what the different parts are for. Next week we need to clean the parts and then we can start to rebuild the engine. When it’s all put back together again we’ll give it a nice new paint job. Peace\/

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Storm in Holland strikes the Seadog

The last two weeks it was stormy weather in Holland. The Seadog got some hard winds blown at her. The temporary roof of the tarp was partially demolished. Me and my dad did some serious repair work to keep things dry again. It may not look very pretty, but hopefully it’s stormproof.