It seems that you can have too much of a good thing.
I had imagined that an 8 week lockdown would mean that I could spend all day at the work bench, however, after 4 weeks I completely lost interest in the Maro. It has been sitting neglected for over a month. I've tried to kick-start the project a couple of times and haven't made much progress.
I'm trying to get some enthusiasm back to get the thing finished and will put in some time over the next week. I have pretty much made all of the elements that need to be added to finish it but not much has happened. I didn't even take any photos of the little that I did manage to do.
I've made the mast, bitts, samson posts, windlass, life buoy rings, tow bow, railings and nav lights.
Because I don't have any reference of the deck equipment a lot of this stuff is 'best guess' scenario. So I've also made a rope bin and a rope drum. The bin was made from surplus laser cut duckboards. The drum: from some extra PE brass cogs that were originally made for a winch/windlass on the YTL I made couple of years ago. They worked fine once the teeth had been filed off. Soldering the outer rail was quite complicated the spokes are 1.5mm long and were very difficult to solder. Worked out OK.
The hose reel was made from the spare PE brass tiller wheels from the Sea Mule I made earlier this year. The box of bits worked out this time.
These all need to be fixed in place. Probably only a few solid evenings' work and it'll be finished.