G7 mix Sustainability and Concrete
Bow Teak repairs
Pleased to be able to repair damage to the bow of Alhambra. Damage caused during the Mankhut major typhoon.
Next task – shaping time.
THS G8 Seaweed Farm Design, Build & Deploy
Tech Know Wise @ THS – rocked Grease Jr
The Harbour School musical Grease Jr was the first musical production run by a newly created Tech Know Wise [TKW] student tech crew.
I am very proud that the Tech Know Wise crew dedicated themselves to designing, setting up, tuning, operating and derigging all Sound, Light & Projection systems.
Weekly after-school training sessions fueled the team’s knowledge, skill and experience growth.
The team worked tirelessly after school and on weekends for three weeks to be ready to control the entertainment technology systems as required.
And they did so very well.
In recognition of their accomplishment, The Harbour School leadership have complimented the TKW crew for their creative and quality work.
With their first production behind them, the TKW crew are ready for more.
THS Tech Greatest Showman
I am pleased to be involved with The Harbour School‘s [THS] ‘The Greatest Showman’ production performed in the Black Box Theatre as the school year ends. A BBT with suitably creative and technical hardware to support creative production.
The musical has been directed and produced by Centre Stage. At this early stage of my time with THS, I am focusing on audio control for the show. All good.
Hopefully, Hong Kong will continue to allow on-site education through the upcoming 2022 – 23 academic year. I am optimistic about initiating a Tech Know Wise [TKW] team in THS. Once again, it would be great to let the students learn to design, set up & operate the Audio and Lighting entertainment technologies.
The show was a success.
Well done THS students.
Guitar Tuition
The Harbour School – Audio in the BBT
Now that Covid interruptions seem to be lessening, I am happy to say that I have been getting ready to work with The Harbour School’s Black Box Theatre’s audio systems.
Yesterday was a few hours getting to know the installed system. A few adjustments were made to align some output levels. The Audinate’s Dante provides great, though complicated, remote manipulation over digital processing options. Very cool.
Yahama MIxer
Renkus Heinz Loudspeakers
LabGroupen Amplification
BiAmp Tesira Processing
Crestron Processing
Shure ULXD MIcrophone systems
Extron Matrix system (HDMI)
Clearcom Communication systems
Audinate’s Dante AV over IP management
A thoughtful and cfreative system that I look forward to getting to pl;ay with over time. It will be able to do great things.
The aim will be to get students in the know too 🙂
Bow Bedroom Bettering
I suppose the first thing to address is: is Bettering a pretend word?
I don’t know, I get it, and I bet you do. So we are all good.
This tale is about the bettering of Alhambra’s Bow Bedroom.
Not unusual on a boat are nasty termite annoyances. Sadly the Bow Bedroom became a mild casualty of termite lunacy.
A project to end the termite and repair the resulting damage began.
Naturally, this starts with termite extermination.
Thanks to Pest Guy and a nine-month plan, we have been able to stop the colony’s wood-eating frenzy.
Termite dining damaged wooden support structures underneath the Bow Port room floorboards. The feasting had also eaten away at the storage cabinet’s lower surface.
Though not massive damage, it was enough to become quite the challenge.
To help clarify my path forward I crafted a few repair sketches – thanks Noteability.
In addition to repairing the floor and wall the hull storage underneath the Bow bedroom required a tidy up.
We rearranged the stored content into 15 plastic storage boxes. Each with dehumidifying bags stashed inside.
Much better.
No longer weak 🙂
With the hole in the port side wall filled with fibreglass, sanded and repainted and the replacement underfloor support timber sealed firmly in place. It became time for new floorboard sections to be crafted and placed.
Painted, sealed and ready for new floorboards to be cut and placed.
Exciting to have the floor restored to a stable condition.
The termites had actually eaten the original boards.
Sun Hing Shing.
SO thankful to Eric from SHS.
I am pleased to show that the boards were cut, placed and varnished with three coats of International varnish / Satin finish.
It’s good to know that the corner section of the room has been returned to a quality level.
With that done it is time to move onto the room lighting, curtains and window sealant.
Dean Lea 