By popular request- Narrowboat rebuild and refit project

Hi all, 

I've lurked around these parts for a long time but never really had anything "thread worthy". A couple of dull ish classic restos I didn't take many photos of and a few pieces of 2 wheeled tat, but nothing to set the world alight. 

I mentioned my current project on the other narrowboat thread and it garnered some interest, so here's some info and hopefully a rolling build thread. As a background, when I was 19 I decided that student accommodation was utterly rubbish and that buying a boat to live on was a good idea, so I worked my bum off selling second hand bicycles and bought this: 





Only it didn't look like that, it was half sunk, didn't run and didn't have much of a fitout. I then spent the university summer holiday refitting it and getting it liveable, and it's been a rolling (floating?) resto ever since. It's a Highbridge 32, a fibreglass canal boat from the late 70s. Think of it of the Matra Rancho of boats. 

Anyway, 5 years on I decided I wanted something a bit bigger, so at the start of this year I was looking to build a boat. The world went a bit south, the cost of steel to scratch build went up £15k, I was despondent. I did what most of us seem to do when faced with any excuse and looked on Ebay, and low and behold there was a very cheap narrowboat. I put a bid in, no-one else did so 3 days later I owned 50ft of problem. 



In theory it's a fairly unremarkable make (Harborough Marine) and needs loads of work, so should make no sense to do. But that;
a) Isn't what it's all about 
b) Isn't the case, as it's already had £10k of steel chucked at it (a new baseplate and enough steel to replace the hull sides) 


It's a bit poorly, but quite a lot of progress has been made since I bought it in May. Some filling in to do, in more ways than one...