Cabinets into Expedition Cabins

This a much nicer view of what's happening, the clean new wood and the carpenters. Here is Gopal fitting the wardrobes and vanity cabinets into Expedition Cabin 4.

These are now finished and are recieving their second coat of varnish (but I left my camera on the ship tonight so can't upload the photos).

We're down to only 17 days left in Savusavu before we head to Suva to go up on the slip for our annual survey and repaint (oh exciting news on the paint front, but that can wait for another blog!)

Stuart

My current office and why this blog isn't updated often at the mo...

For those of you who have been on Tui Tai these photos show the current look of the saloon and bar area on board. In the first photo my "office" is the first table and chair on the right with my yellow water bottle (hydrate, hydrate!) and Starbucks coffee (made by the Tacoma Girls in the Active Fiji real office for me daily!)

; always appreciated if you want to bring a gift for us coffe lovers out here in the sticks, any type or variety of good coffee beans works of us!

The rest of the mess is the materials and stock needed for the refit. Toilets, sinks, engine parts, desal plant, glue, nails, welding rods, cutting disks, sound proofing insulation mat, electrical cabling, distribution boxes, light switches, lights themselves, goodness I could do this all evening. Enough said that there is literally tonnes of equipment and supplies.


In the second photo you can just see one of the heads off of our starboard main engine, a Gardner. Chief Engineer Timoci has taken the 12 weeks refit time to grab a chance to do a full top end rebuild of all our critical systems. Oil and diesel everywhere!

All for now, 'll try and do a nicer photo in my next blog.

Stuart

Oompa Loompa's help in refit

Work is well underway in the refit now. We are on Day 17, and dare I say it we are slightly ahead of schedule!

Here are two of our carpenters kitted up for installing the soundproofing and fireproofing mat between the cabins. As Tania says, they are just so Oompa Loompa we had to take a photo!

We loved the food

Hello and bula- We saw the most incredible rainforests and beaches, met great people from all over the world and had the best food I’ve ever eaten.  How the chef did it I don’t know.  He turned out amazing dishes and sweets every morning and afternoon as well as serving themed evening meals – the only meal he didn’t cook onboard was the Lovo feast which was begun in the kitchen, then carried by small boat to the beach, where it was cooked in a hot rock pit and then returned to the ship – it was fabulous.

-- Stan and Judy Moore, Idaho, USA

Tagimucia Spa takes shape

The new Tagimucia Spa has been framed and sized by the on staff carpenters today.

The spa will feature face, body and feet massages as well as a number of traditional and regular treatments to rejuvenate guests before and after the adventures.

The new spa will have a full size massage table as well as a mobile massage chair which will be relocated to the adventure sites such as Cobia beach and Bouma waterfalls, for an unforgettable massage in an unbelievably beautiful place.

Cabin 6 has a door!!!!!!!!

The first of the new cabin doors has been cut by the Welding team, ARGH! Here we see Shane, Ian and Wayne fixing the hammer used to knock the door out... And it's a BIG hammer.

Cabin 6 door has been cut to allow the carpenters to get access to finish the walls and ceiling. All the frame is finished in the Expedition Cabins on the main deck, so they now need doors to get in.

The Dream Team

Pictured here are Nazir, our star carpenter with his boys. Also is our own "Welder Smurf" Shane Bower, more often seen welding works of art than cutting plate steel! But we have him for 8 weeks.
See his website: http://www.islandartfiji.com/artist_shanebower.cfm