A potentially good shed

The  potentially very good shed of the boatbuilding co-op and a wyloyard that wasn't.

3 friends bought the shed at auction at the decommissioned old city powerstation, it had originally been erected at an antarctic base so the portal frames were huge and J-bolts had held the cladding onto strong purlins in hurricane force winds. The walls were about 5m high the ridge over 6m. There were 2 giant access doors large enough to allow a yacht hull through on each end. It seemed like a pretty good yacht building shed. My friends boatbuilding co-op plan was to build 4 hulls inside (3 Vandestadt 34s, 1 wylo) and after each hull was welded enough, move it outside and rig a leanto over it for further work while another hull was born inside.. a good plan, we were fairly young and quite enthusiastic.

After the auction  (a what seemed a good price) it was found to be asbestos clad so contractors in space-like suits had to remove that permanently at fair expense.  We then marked up and  dismantled only the frame for transport.

A large 12x9m slab was laid on a 25 acre bush block not too far from town. We put all the framework up and clad it with brand new zinc-alum  iron sheeting fastened with tek screws. My wylo frames arrived for imminent assembly.

The power connection didnt go so well. It was discovered that a huge transformer  had to be fiitted to the high voltage mains line on the street to bring the power down to 240v. This caused nothing to happen for a long time.

A genset was considered but a break-in finally tipped the balance and it was time for me to look for another yard.