A new build and a new webcam
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008We started a new build last week of a 57ft x 12ft 6in barge for Lesley & Stewart MacLennan.
Lesley & Stewart live in Australia and plan to take the boat to France to live aboard, Stewart is a wheelchair user and the boat is being built to accommodate his needs.
Because of the distances involved we have resurrected the buildcam so they can watch the build progress on-line. (And obviously it confirms where their money is going too! 
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The picture below will refresh real time every time this page loads.
The buildcam is a bit different this time to what I have had setup last time to try and keep the bandwidth usage in check, it now features two separate pages the LIVECAM page where you can view the build live via a picture that updates 3 times per minute and the WEBCAM page that is a gallery made up of snapshots taken every 20 minutes these picture can be viewed individually or in a slide show that will form a time lapse style video of the build.
They have only just started so there isn’t too much to see yet but over the next 8 weeks a hull should appear!
There as been quite a lot of miss information in the press recently about the VAT zero rating of boats, this boat will be VAT zero rated under the VAT rules for supplies to the disabled which is the only legal way that a boat can be supplied VAT zero rated.
