Deck frames

Three days of not doing anything constructive on the land! George and friends have just come out for 2 weeks on the boat - using cheap flights into Kefalonia, so Dave and I took Tropi south on Monday, spent a night in a bay and then went into Fiskardo, where the usual mayhem meant that about three anchors were laid over ours. The next day we had planned to catch the ferry back, but force 7s grounded the ferries, so after we'd untangled all the anchors we took a very bouncy trip over to Sivota, all wearing life jackets, riding a roller-coaster 4 metre swell. And fell asleep as soon as we were home.


Our sophisticated water supply.


So Thursday: we made an early start on the decking, and by 11 o'clock all the cordless power tools had gone flat, and we'd run out of long screws.

We were making frames as they would help us get the blocks level, and as a base to fix the deck boards to.

After two hours of recharging we got back to it - it was good and hot by then, and all the shade had gone. None of the wood we got (the cheap stuff) is straight, flat or untwisted, which made it an interesting experience and makes us very curious about how it'll turn out.


Some completed frames - rather larger than we can handle easily

Oh, and we moved the generator into it's box - nearly got to fire it up, but didn't have a funnel the right size to put the oil in. Tomorrow, maybe?