Work has now started on the roof. It will still leak until it’s finished, but hopefully the weather will be good to us.
First part to get fixed was the section overhanging the rear balcony which was collapsing. The next part was to remove the old cupola, sorry, no time lapse but you can blame Matt for that 😉 They did however uncover some interesting details behind the many layers of cladding – three lovely arched windows. I’m not sure if they went all around but I think we will incorporate this type of detail in the new cupola windows. According to Matt and Thomas this detail was purely decorative, that is they didn’t open or provide any ventilation.
The old cupola was about 6′ square whilst the new one will be about 12′ x 16′ plus have a 10’x16′ deck outside. As you can see, in the winter time we are given views of the Rondout creek (where the ship is moored and incidentally I think it’s an old hospital ship) and about a 100′ behind that you have the Hudson Estuary (it becomes a river about 50 miles north).
This is so exciting! The windows are really cool :).