Engine back in the engine compartment! (Patreon)

It finally happened! Athena can float again. That has to count as a significant milestone :D This week I got the saildrive and the engine back in the engine compartment. The next step involving the engine will be to figure out the cable and hose management. I'll put that on the back burner for now in favor of figuring out the situation with the structural members under the cabin sole. 

As some of you might have noticed in the Lens, I published earlier today, I have already removed the bulkhead between the old head and the aft cabin. I've cheated a little bit and shot the first 7 minutes of next weekend's video today. There are two reasons for that: 1) I'm doing everything I can to find time to shoot videos I can publish while I'm in LA over Christmas. 2) Next weekend's video is going to be sponsored by Audible, and they need time to approve the section before I can publish it. That leads me to something important. I'll render two versions of next weekend's video - a YouTube version and a Patreon version. The Patreon version will have NO ads (not in front/after of the video and the mention of Audible will be edited out). I'll post a link to both come next Sunday :) 

As of writing this, there are only ten days till I leave to spend Christmas with Ava. I've got one video (the pedestal one) almost ready to go. I'm pretty excited about that video. I think it's going to turn out pretty good :) 

I've ordered one of the new DJI Osmo Pocket cameras. It'll be interesting to see what kind of new options that give me for shooting video. I'm hoping it'll allow me to do some run and gun stuff without compromising quality. I'm considering testing it at a German boat show in January :) 

I'm off to take Jökull for a long walk. Have an awesome Sunday guys! :)