Topping Out Ceremony

The roof is very nearly finished, so on 12th November, Phil Reeves performed his customary Topping Out Ceremony, which as in the time honoured tradition of launching all things new, involved a bottle of Champagne.

HardieBacker is used on the walls/floor
wherever there will be tiles instead of the vapour
plasterboard used on the rest of the bathroom
walls; this doesn't need plastering

Meanwhile, on the inside, Aarron (MJP Bathrooms) and associated builders, Tony, Justin and Jake (J A Buckingham) have been working all week on the bathrooms; they are now plastered and ready for tiling and fitting the sanitary ware next week.

Very fine plasterwork in a tight window area in our ensuite.

And here is David, with his sailing haircut (thankfully only a '4', not a '2' so it will grow back reasonably quickly), testing out his new sat phone, before he leaves for Cape Verde tomorrow to join our friends Philip and Helen Scourfield on 'Shelena' (an Oyster 545), for the second leg of the ARC+, a 2,000 mile leg from Cape Verde to St Lucia.  I think he is more nervous about the prospect of me being Project Manager for the next few weeks than he is about his trip.