Week 1 of the build

 So, here we are the the first week of the build is over! The fun began last week with the unloading of the hull onto its dolly. A fairly straightforward job with a forklift and up to a point it was. The interesting bit was when the hull, now safely on the dolly, was pushed just a few yards into the unit. It basically started falling to bits! It is supposed to be adjustable and so it has sections held together with bolts with handscrew tops. The problem is that they cant be done up tight enough to stop it changing shape. 

This is what the dolly looks like. You can see the black plastic tops to the bolts!

Anyway, having got the hull into the workshop the next job was to jack it up onto axle stands, rebuild the dolly and lower it back down.

Next on the list is to give the inside a good clean and then paint it with an oil based paint. The best choice would have been boat bilge paint but I'm using garage floor paint as its a fraction of the price.

Three photos of the cockpit on arrival, after emptying out and after painting.

The wait is over!

 Its been an intersting year. By the end of February I had pretty much dismantled as much of the Fiesta as I wanted to before the kit arrived. I was hoping to collect that at the end of March - but we all know what happened next. 

Fortunately Tim and his team came through it unscathed but restictions brought on further delays. But yesterday the big day arrived and I went down to Littlehampton to collect the hull and most of the bits.

Now the madness begins!

Here it is at Tim's works

and here it is all loaded onto the truck.