I am for the first time blogging from Elida. I came back to the boat in
Wednesday and have since then been helping out with Elida V.
We are really making progress, and the current goal is to be ready for
departure on the 10th of November. Then we are to be finished with the
crew compartments, the deck equipment, the electricity, steering, the
fences, all laminating and painting. I and Lennart, the man in charge of
the project, have been laminating the rings hold the masts where they go
through the deck. The rings are massive plastic constructions, and to
give the necessary strength for supporting the masts. We have therefore
put a double layer of glass fibre fabric laminated with Polyester on
both sides of the rings, and that took almost all day today.
Laminating is quite fun compared to sanding and painting, since that is
more of a constructive task, and it is just as much challenge as I need
right now. It is inspiring to work with something that requires both
brains and muscles, compared to the monotonous sanding.

My wireless card from Cisco doesn’t seem to work even after a firmware
upgrade. I am really confused about what to do now, since it has to work
when we leave for the Mediterranean Sea. I’ll keep investigating even more.