‘Surpy watter’ was my invention- I wrote it on the spray bottle one day. I’m yet to learn the spoken Geordie, but I can do the written!

I don’t know about the diary as such, but Bill certainly plans a book about all this one day, yes.

Nashio996, you may like today’s current ‘pic of the day’ on our site too, if you’ve not already seen it- a view from the stern, with some body panels test fitted.

I’m with you. Well again it’s not my place to go uploading pics willy-nilly, however, our pics of the day have already been in the public domain so here’s a couple of those at least-

The boat as she was on New Year’s Eve- she’s already come on a LOT since then! Plus a view from the outside of the workshop too. To explain for anyone browsing here who doesn’t know, you’ll see that parts of the boat are painted green. These are the ONLY pieces of it that are non-original! And even then, not all of the green is new parts- all of the green aft of the big yellow rollover jig is just strengtheners/doublers, on top of original material. Everything painted silver-grey is genuine Donald Campbell Bluebird…

Interesting- how do you find it hard to use? (I mean that in the curious, is there a problem we can help you with way, not that it’s your fault!) Whatever is newest will be at the top of the ‘diary’. Plus, we have a ‘picture of the day’ on the front page, too. A new diary entry will be due soon, too.

It’s not my place to go showing too many pictures here as obviously, we want the traffic through our own site, and we do have to keep a tight control these days on what images appear where!

Yes, we were kindly given this particular engine by the Harrow ATC, but it’s the service history we were wondering about, i.e did it ever fly, was it a ground runner, instructional, whatever.

The project continues apace, virtually day in day out one way or another. We are rapidly building up the engine now, supported by our aerospace partners, and I’m sure we’ll be getting a tune out of it before many more months have passed. It will be a kind of hybrid 101/701, and is incorporating some parts from Campbell’s original engine. Here it is as presented on our ‘Picture of the day’ on the BBP website a couple of days ago-