Lead soup?

We are deep into August, summer seems to have flown by and we are not quite where we had hopped to be by bow on the boat. Neverless, we are doing great progress and I would say we are in a good boat building phase. The past few weeks have gone on the theme of lead melting but I am happy to say that it is now done....well except for the trim ballast, but there is no need to think of it now.

First round, two loads to melt about three tons of precious lead. A big fire as heat source and a bath tub for a container, we needed something big to melt down two keels.



And this is where that lead went, contained against the hull. It's welded shut we can now forget about it.



Second round of the month, an other ton and a half contained under the water tanks to be.
We found the easiest way to do this would be to melt it right in the boat and ladle it hot in the keel.



Don't worry, I'm well protected. A mask with positive pressure a proper breezing air feed...I at least had that to cool me off. I also blow fresh air threw the boat to eliminate c02 and cool it off.

Well, that's for the lead. I also been working a few other details: water tanks, crap tank, mast collar....I'll try to post more but should really get to the boat now.