Falmouth tall ships

Had a brilliant weekend staying on Pete's boat during the tall ships visit in Falmouth harbour.

Arrived on Friday (in the new car... ) to see quite a few ships moored up in the harbour and open for people to visit.  A quick trip out with Pete and then back to see the ships lit up for the evening and fireworks over the bay.

The next day was pretty crazy with every boat owner out in the bay to escort the sailing ships out to the start line.  Unfortunately, the beautiful weather meant not enough wind to sail.

Great light though and the sails looked brilliant against the clouds.

Progress with the glass

Well, the window is all soldered now and it has been interesting to see the final colours now that it can be lifted up off the bench.   

On Sunday during the final cementing, the sun shone really brightly through the glass reflecting over the bench - it was tricky to get a good image with accurate colours, the trees are a lovely warm toffee / caramel colour and the greens are deep emerald - but this doesn't do it much justice!

Nick and Naomi have been over to see the finished work and all that needs to happen now is to get the window fitted in their home, which should happen on Thursday.

Progress with the glass

Well, nearly there now, glad that Nick and Naomi got to see it a week back, the last section has cut really well and adding the warm colours for the sun and sky has been very satisfying.

The soldering has almost been completed and you can just about see how the colours look for this final section.



Once soldered, I can actually get to lift the window up and get a proper view of the colours, a final cementing, which will probably happen when we get back from Cornwall, and everything will be much more solid and really bring out the glass properly.