Sitting in the loft looking aft...

To take this photo I was sitting in the loft with my back to the bow wall, looking aft.  In the foreground may be seen the plank and partial sheet of plywood which are the acting loft floor at the moment. Looking up, two sets of dormer rafters may be seen, with their plywood sheathing. 

I went over to Kyle's and ducked under the huge tarp to get the feel of things now that the framing is complete and the roof sheathing is on.  It was a cold but sunny day and I was bundled up against the outdoor chill, but it got very (maybe too) warm in the tiny house after a while! A novel concept -- insulating with a 30x50ft black tarp and heating with nine candles! (And the sun.) It helps to climb up and down a ladder a few times too.

The two blue triangles in the above photo are the aft walls of the dormers, which have their own blue tarp. The blue tarp is also covering what may be distinguished as the aft ends of the rough openings for two of the four dormer windows (port and starboard).  Looking further aft, rafters for the peaked roof may be seen (five I think), and the wrinkly black equilateral triangle shape is the aft end of the house (with a tealight candle set on the header for ambiance). Just below this may be seen the rough opening for the stern windowseat nook window. That diagonal 2x4 across the window opening is temporary bracing. 

For this picture I sat approximately where the notebook and green pencil were in the previous picture.  So I am looking forward now at the bow end of the loft.

I took the following three pictures to help me plan the windowsills/shelves which will be built in under the four dormer windows, but thought some of you might be interested in the nifty framing puzzle Kyle solved for the dormer construction.

The aft end of the port dormer framing.  This is where the dormer rafter meets the side and end dormer walls. Lower right in this photo (above) is the top left corner of the rough opening for the aft port dormer window.  Still with me?

The bottom left corner of the rough opening for the aft port dormer window.  Where peaked roof rafters abut dormer wall.

The bottom right corner of the forward port window dormer wall, where some more fancy framing was done by Kyle. The line of the peaked roof will show on the outside of the bow wall.

Looking up into the loft from the stern window seat area.  It is possible to see that the dormers extend further toward the stern than the edge of the loft floor; this will allow the ladder to be placed anywhere along the loft floor edge and climbed without fear of bonking one's head on the peaked roof rafters...  Tea-lights for atmosphere.

I have spent many hours in the past few days researching potable water tanks, cisterns, grey water holding tanks, camping shower units, solar-powered vent fans, fridges and ice boxes, mini-air conditioners, and many a cook-stove, from alcohol to wood to propane, to butane, to gasoline, and eek there are a lot of choices.  Also Australia certainly has a lot of interesting solutions to problems of roughing it in the great outdoors...