A Cat Named Dog
  • Home
  • The Boat
  • Captains Blog: The Build
  • Friends
  • The Homefront
  • Donate!
  • Videos

The Blog of the Dog.

              www.acatnameddog.com 

It's important, I think...........


Click the "<<Previous" at the bottom of the page to                         see the previous week's post.

Home

Postponed But Not Ended, Another Damn Beam, And The inevitability Of The Inevitable: The Unstoppable Train Of Life!

3/11/2017

0 Comments

 
Be it known to all mankind that the great sadness, although inevitable. scheduled for this week, has been postponed until next week. My faithful following of two will indeed be saddened by the new changed situation, as am I.

​I wish that I had more followers and thrived on the accolades of acolytes for my existence. I'll never be loved. I could never exist if I depended on others. I flat out am too weird. The music I love has always been addressed as "What's that shit?"  My style, always a bit off, never quite fit. My values slightly askew, never meshed with the mainstream. Even the delusional people that build boats such as mine cannot quite mesh with what I write here, Hey, it's me!  I do best and am most happiest pursuing my own heart, no matter how offbeat it seems. Help is appreciated also therapy.

​I started sailing late. Liz offered to teach me a bit. I bought a tiny boat (the Mirror Dinghy). I still have it and rebuilt it here on this site. You never know to what you become attached. I sailed in it with Liz, Craig, Rusty and Ben. Rusty sank it at the dock trying to escape. Dogs! Where am I going with this chain of thought? Is it a manifesto? Is it philosophy? Is it alcohol? Dunno.......let's look at the pictures.......I understand pictures. they're pretty.
Picture
Spring, when the little birds with the beautiful song attempt to build a nest in the band saw. Spring, when the wildflowers start sending color onto the landscape reminding us so stop for a moment. Spring, when the rains are not far off. Spring, when the temperature starts nagging you about the hot summer. Spring, when I think I might just make it this year.
Picture
Ben's work week, truncated by his needs, spent on acquisition, failure, disappointment and pursuit of false leads, all in the comfort(?) of his home. Highs, lows and in-between's. Maybe you will understand next week.
Picture
Why did I take a picture of this again?
Picture
Oh, yeah, I cut another hole for an AC power outlet.
Picture
I also cut some rubber edge strips and glued them on the back.
Picture
Ben did the final (Hah!) touch ups on the motor boxes. We''ll put them in in the next day or so.
Picture
We will bolt them in using bigass (that's a technical term) 1" galvanized bolts.. The galvanizing was exposed a bit, so Ben  sprayed them with galvanized coating. Directions: Take deep breath, hold it, spray everything, run!, take a new breath, wait a month for it to cure.
Picture
We glued a 3X3 to a 5/4X6 board to form a beam to run between beam 3 and the aft beam. We decided to put a not-in-the-plans deck on the starboard side back there. 
Picture
Picture
Some beefing up of the plywood on both beams was necessary. I made a couple reinforcement pieces, realized that I screwed it up and threw them in the scrap pile, from whence they originated.  to be re-utilized in another capacity (the cycle of life).
Picture
I made a couple new ones.
Picture
The beam will mount on the sail-o-mat wind vane support on the aft beam and the pod seat support on beam 3. Of course. I had to sand off the paint to glue everything on.
I sandwiched the support plywood with some 12 mm pieces and glued the whole shebang together.
Picture
Picture
A couple battery box latches and the week was done...............
Picture
Except for this..... We bought two cans of primer from the local hardware store. We didn't need the second one so I was planning to take one back. By mistake, I threw away the wrong store receipt. That was OK, the paint still had their label on it. We set it down outside our door so we could remember to take it along on the next trip. Then the snails got to it. They especially liked the price sticker. Ben, the primer and the guilty culprit still eating away at the label. We get no breaks, just extra primer...................................  

​The Music♫: Chuck Berry, every damn hit!

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww....................... Chuck. Nothing better defines a generation. Thanks for the music. This one really hurts! My place in line keeps movin' up! Let it play........
0 Comments
<<Previous
Forward>>

    Archives

    December 2022
    September 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    January 2022
    September 2021
    August 2021
    May 2021
    February 2021
    December 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013

    Author

    Chuck! Send money!

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.