Main beam seating and windscreen
	Getting the square top main ready to go
	The vast main deck area
	The Karver gennaker furler and tackline block, bowsprit and PBO martingale
	Looking through the saloon with its carbon table into the galley
	Mast goes on
	Mast goes on
	Ready to receive the mast
	Touch down
	Ready to be put in
	Up she goes
	Checking details before the hoist
	The hulls betray their racing heritage yet again
	The truck leaves
	Some areas were a little tight
	A lovely morning for the journey
	The trade of for fantastic righting moment is a walking (sometimes jogging) pace delivery to the harbour
	Transporting a boat which is 8.4m (over 27ft) wide is not easy. The first step was to protect the hulls from stray trees (and road signs!)
	Loading the boat onto the truck the evening before
	Interior: With plenty of natural light, and the inboard flare above the water line, the interior feels comfortable and spacious. The high quality fittings, materials and fabrics give a sense of understated luxury.
	Interior
	Interior
	Interior
	The deck is vast, providing both intimacy in the cockpit area and the doghouse, and a sense of space on the nets and by the main beam.
	The beautiful coachroof shape manages to provide generous interior volume without being bulky
	The lines are at once both classic and contemporary.
	The flowing lines can deceive - she is actually very large!
	With a coat of paint, the boat really starts to come alive.
	The tall, slender bows provide lots of reserve buoyancy and give an aggressive profile
	Preparing the Oregon pine deck
	Fairing the hull to deck joint
	A wide and powerful platform
	The lines of the SIG45 are already showing their promise
	Working on the forward locker hatch
	The completed hull to deck joint ready for fairing
	Completing the hull to deck joint
	Dry placing a bulkhead
	Port deck and hull
	Port hull showing the volume provided by the inboard flare
	The elegant lines of the coachroof
	The port deck
	The first hull with a layer of fairing primer
	The first hull, showing the attachment point for the aft beam
	The deck ready for priming
	Starboard deck mould almost finished
	The Hull and Deck mould final stages
	Fairing of hull mould
	Carpentry work on the stbd deck mould
	Hull mould being planked
	Hull and Deck Moulds being planked
	Deck mould frames and battens
	Hull mould frames
	Looking forward with me in aft galley
	Looking forward into saloon from doghouse
	Looking forward into saloon from doghouse
	Looking forward into galley
	Mock-up: Looking aft towards exit to the deck (left-hand door) and the aft cabin (right-hand door)
	Mock-up: Walking into galley from saloon
	Looking into galley from head
	Mock-up: Looking into saloon from deck
	Ouside of mock up
	Mock-up: Looking forward into saloon