Voyaging with Annie Hill

I’ve been in New Zealand since 2010, firstly in South Island, and since 2012 in Northland, a beautiful and varied cruising ground. In 2015, I started building a new boat better suited to my requirements than “Fantail”, to see me through my dotage. After over 5 years’ solid work, “FanShi” was launched. She’s my perfect boat, worth all the effort I put in to her. While we could go offshore, I find I’m very happy here – for the moment. Maybe my blog should now be called “Pottering with Annie Hill”!

28 November, 2017

Oryx is for sale!

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As I mentioned in my previous post, Oryx is back in New Zealand.  Pete tells me that, once again, he wants to try out another boat.  He say...
26 November, 2017

Oooh! What a week!

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Some weeks, the boat leaps forward and I think that it may even swim one day.  Other weeks not a lot happens - on the boat that is.  Life ha...
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19 November, 2017

First, some musings

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Well, this is a blog.  But if you are only interested in the boatbuilding part of it, then go down the page until you see 'Back to Boatb...
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05 November, 2017

Forecabin fitout

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For me, fitting out the boat is the best bit of the building.  If I make a mess of it, it's not a catastrophe, like it would be if I mad...
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22 October, 2017

Smaller pieces of plywood

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Having started to make the forecabin locker so that I could put in the big piece of plywood, it became obvious, that underneath would be mo...
08 October, 2017

Big sheets of plywood

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One day, I'll fit the deck beams - promise.  In the meantime, I'm still fooling around with big sheets of plywood that need to be fi...
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01 October, 2017

Sometime I sits and thinks; sometimes I just sits

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I've been doing a lot of thinking, tooth-sucking and head-scratching recently and a lot of it has ended up with me sitting in a numbed d...
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17 September, 2017

Finally, I can tick off the heads

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Heaven knows, it's taken long enough.  I will offer the usual excuses of slow execution, much head scratching, one or two steps backward...
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