The weather finally cooled off enough to be comfortable to be outside instead of roasting! This is a nice change of events! Our goal for today was to get all the windows and doors in the shell to make it all waterproof!

We decided to do the propane locker the right way and completely seal it up and add the vent to the door with a sealed hose for the stove. I really don’t want to blow up. We added a layer of caulk around all the interior seams and most of the exterior just in case.  I think it turned out really nice looking! We might have room for up to 5-6 of the little green propane bottles!

While I was off doing other stuff, Jason has been working hard on all of the electrical stuff.

I got a text from Jason to bring a fire extinguisher, but don’t worry because nothing was on fire… um ok. I’ll be over there immediately just in case. 😮 Apparently he was about to turn the system on for the first time and wanted to be extra safe in case he did something wrong.  Luckily, all went well and everything powered up and nothing caught fire.  I also got the opportunity to do an inspection on my fire extinguisher, verify it wasn’t expired, and shake the powder around. All is well!

Obviously the wiring took quite a bit of time and we can’t have two engineers working the same system because we would end up in a fight to the death.  I took myself out of the ring and started cutting spacers and inner structure for the cabinets to support the cabinet doors and the various hinges that we chose for the galley.  I don’t know if it’s awesome or sickening, but we’ve just started using up all of the scrap hardwood that we have laying around from owning a wood boat.  The spacers I made are mahogany. Seriously. I guess that wood’s been in there for 2 years gathering dust, so might as well use it.  But still…

I also made some spacer/brackets for the cooler that’s going to sit on the railing on the opposite side of the camper.  I wanted something tall to keep it from sliding forward and backwards.  Jason pointed out the strip of teak handrail that we removed from the boat because part of it was rotten.  Fair game since it’s trash anyway.

I said earlier that the weather cooled down a bit, which is great, but there was also a forecast of a little bit of rain. That was a lie.  We got a downpour.. like 3 separate times… and steady rain and drizzle off and on the rest of the day. Explains why Jason spent so much time huddled inside the camper working on wiring.  I bounced around between multiple projects and just going back inside instead of getting wet. It’s a pain to drag the power tools into the shed and back out and back in, etc.

We ended up running out of caulk and decided to run to the store and get a new tube of it before we started the door, however as we were leaving it started to rain and didn’t stop.  The door didn’t get done today, but that’s the only thing we have left that’s keeping it from being a fully waterproof shell! …with the roof down at least! It’s still missing canvas, but that’s all currently in the mail!