5 May

Main motor landed and power for heaters installed.

27 April

The starboard main motor has landed.

The main motor forward foundation.

20 April

The main motors are being reassembled in the yard, in preparation for landing.

13 April

The foundation framing in motor room #1 is being painted prior to landing the motor.

The main motor assemblies are starting to arrive in yard.

23 March

AMI is using a calibrated load cell to ensure that their installed system is accurate.

Module 5 is being moved to the building/ launch ways.

Module is made up to #3 on the building ways. By moving this module out of the assembly area, it has freed up a lot of space. You can also see the ship starting to take shape.

9 March

The foundation has been modified to fix the loading problem of the pumps,which you can see in the picture below.

2 March

This is a pump installed in the pump room. Note that even without liquid in the pump end, the the forward mounts are almost bottomed out.

This pump is in the pump room and has the same problem with mounts not properly loaded.

20 February

Outfitting continues in the pump room.

16  February

This area will be the pump room. Outfitting is starting, and the last piece of shell goes on after shop work is complete.

12 February

Side shells are going onto the module.

9 February

Base for main motor in module 5

6 February

Starting to assemble motor foundation, Capt. Coste is in picture.

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