How Long To Solve A Nine Piece Puzzle?

In my injured state work has been minimal, though Sharon has continued on with the painstaking job of removing the cabin-top paint from around the grab handles. I will spare you the photos.

In an effort to get something done I tackled a task that I had let sit for a long time: trying to fit all the shelves and liners into the port head lockers. When we first started work on Kamalii in California pretty much every liner panel and shelf had been removed, and putting it all back together was quite the jigsaw puzzle. One area that I just could not work out was the starboard-side head lockers, and despite several attempts to work out how it all went together over the years, the lockers have largely been in a state of semi-functionality these last few years.

Today I had another crack - and I won! From 15 assorted, unmarked panels I managed to work out the nine panels that belonged to the lockers, where they fitted, and most importantly, the sequence they had to go in. I discovered that one of the panels had not been fully trimmed to size, while another was missing altogether, which I had to make. But now we have some very large, fully functional lockers and shelves. Yay.

So, it took me approximately 3 & 1/2 years to put together a nine-piece puzzle*. I think I'll leave that 1,000 piece jigsaw in the bottom of the drawer...


*The assembly sequence was important. The number of possible permutations of 9 pieces from 15 is 1,816,214,400. Cut me some slack.