The crew worked hard in the heat today to continue the sculpted concrete work on the Viking targets for the Motiongate project in Dubai. The first of the dragon head keels was sculpted today. Like everything else about this project it is very large! These things are very much a team effort and at quitting time the crew agreed to a group shot to celebrate this initial milestone.
Offroad inspiration
When I can find the time I love to do a little off roading in the Jeep. This weekend I got the chance to explore some new territory with a few of our employees and their friends. We are blessed to be surrounded by mountains with endless old logging roads to explore. It is all within a short distance from our door. This trip we would head up the steep abandoned logging roads of Mount McGuire. The roads were rocky and bumpy, travelled mostly in first gear with the last third of the distance in four wheel drive. As we neared the top of the drivable section to a height of 4,000 feet the views of the valley far below were spectacular! I took a bunch of photos of rocks and gnarly trees for future reference. At the top of the road the mountain still loomed over us by another 1,500 feet. There was plenty of snow on the ground, even though the temperature was very warm. Best of all the return trip, including multiple stops was less than three hours. The bottom photo has an arrow pointing to approximately how high we got on the mountain. The photo was taken as I travelled to town, about a mile from our house.
Viking ships are BIG!
Yesterday, it was finally time to place the front keel into position on the hull framework. We've been working on the plans and pieces for many weeks and knew they were large. But seeing it on paper and in pieces is one thing. Seeing it raised into place on the ship was something else entirely. It dwarfed Peter standing on the ground! The tail section of the keel will be next and then in the coming week we'll finish off the framework for the hull of the ship. The second ship's lower framework is also nearing completion and in a few days we will pull the ship's pieces from the shop and assemble it beside the first.
