Good evening,
Welcome aboard you will enjoy the experience. Are you building from plan or Kit? Tassiepete is building from kit and I am building from Plan.
I'm in Queensland Australia (sub tropical), however I would recommend Tassiepete,
https://pocketshipkermadec.wordpress.com who is in Tasmania, Australia, and is working in the same climatic conditions as Oxford however in opposite end's of the world. That is Summer (Oxford) is winter in Tassie etc.
Cheers
Frank