Infinty: under construction!
We reached Infinity...and it's under construction.
A bit of an introduction: the owner of the ship, Clemens, has spent the past three months here remodelling the entire inside. With a team of five Thai carpenters he's been building new bunks, and cabins, putting in new showers/sinks/heads, redoing cabinetry and installing all new inlaid-wood flooring. Impressive? You bet--this place is going to look grand when it's finished--but it's not quite there yet.
When we arrived on the ship a thick blanket of sawdust covered absolutely EVERYTHING inside. Piles of lumber and wood debris, power tools, extension cords, and all sorts of other construction mishmash filled just about every square inch of floor space of every room, cabin, and storage space. Hmmm...going to take a bit of work before we can live here.
Circumstances as they were, we rented a house just off the beach near the ship to sleep, as the construction zone wasn't the greatest place to put 12 newly-arrived people plus luggage. Right to work we went, sanding floors and woodwork, caulking corners, priming, painting, varnishing, sealing, and otherwise finishing the interior carpentry work in the main living areas so we could move in. (The Thai carpenters completed the rough woodwork, and our crew jumped in on the finishing stages.) A week and a half later two of the living spaces are completely finished (well, except for a new ceiling, which will come later), the cabins are all inhabitable (though still needing sanding, varnishing, painting, which will come in the next few weeks), the galley is almost usable (we're still eating Thai take-out every lunch and dinner--mmmm, spicy food!), and the main meeting space/room is mostly finished and usable. Beginning to look like home!
What's next? Continuing on the sanding/varnishing/painting front, plenty of plumbing to complete, becoming familiar with systems (generator, power, main engine, etc.) and sailing of the ship, and a few exterior construction projects. We'll probably leave Thailand in a couple weeks, bound for Singapore, where we'll reunite with a shipping container full of goods from our old ship. Until then, though, Phuket is not a bad spot to live and work, at all! (Pretty darn ideal, actually--quiet bay, beautiful tropical sunsets, great swimming straight off the ship, delicious food, cheap prices, the list goes on!)
Tally ho,
Kitty
A bit of an introduction: the owner of the ship, Clemens, has spent the past three months here remodelling the entire inside. With a team of five Thai carpenters he's been building new bunks, and cabins, putting in new showers/sinks/heads, redoing cabinetry and installing all new inlaid-wood flooring. Impressive? You bet--this place is going to look grand when it's finished--but it's not quite there yet.
When we arrived on the ship a thick blanket of sawdust covered absolutely EVERYTHING inside. Piles of lumber and wood debris, power tools, extension cords, and all sorts of other construction mishmash filled just about every square inch of floor space of every room, cabin, and storage space. Hmmm...going to take a bit of work before we can live here.
Circumstances as they were, we rented a house just off the beach near the ship to sleep, as the construction zone wasn't the greatest place to put 12 newly-arrived people plus luggage. Right to work we went, sanding floors and woodwork, caulking corners, priming, painting, varnishing, sealing, and otherwise finishing the interior carpentry work in the main living areas so we could move in. (The Thai carpenters completed the rough woodwork, and our crew jumped in on the finishing stages.) A week and a half later two of the living spaces are completely finished (well, except for a new ceiling, which will come later), the cabins are all inhabitable (though still needing sanding, varnishing, painting, which will come in the next few weeks), the galley is almost usable (we're still eating Thai take-out every lunch and dinner--mmmm, spicy food!), and the main meeting space/room is mostly finished and usable. Beginning to look like home!
What's next? Continuing on the sanding/varnishing/painting front, plenty of plumbing to complete, becoming familiar with systems (generator, power, main engine, etc.) and sailing of the ship, and a few exterior construction projects. We'll probably leave Thailand in a couple weeks, bound for Singapore, where we'll reunite with a shipping container full of goods from our old ship. Until then, though, Phuket is not a bad spot to live and work, at all! (Pretty darn ideal, actually--quiet bay, beautiful tropical sunsets, great swimming straight off the ship, delicious food, cheap prices, the list goes on!)
Tally ho,
Kitty
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