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Livin' Yer Dreams

9/20/2015

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So, here Ya, are sleepin' away, it's an hour or so before you gots to get up and your brain kicks in (Crap!). Are you dreaming about cruising the seas in your catamaran?? Nope. Sunny Beaches?? Nope. Hula girls?? Nope. You're dreaming about....................boat building processes. How am I going to glue the PTFE (the slickest stuff on the planet) onto the gaffs? Sanding the chine. Measuring the tillers. If I invented a solvent that would dissolve everything, what container could I keep it in? Can we paint this week? How to configure the pod design. Do I have enough money to buy the stuff I need? On and on until you give up,  get up, stand up, go out, and face the day and start up sanding that goddam chine! I'm living my dreams! So we must have done something week. Let's look at the picture extravaganza!
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I salvaged some mahogany that was used to sticker the plywood  when it was shipped. It was a couple narrow, thick pieces, which I cut down, patched, re patched, glued up, filled cracks to get something to mount a barometer and ships clock. A ships clock? It chimes to eight bells; sailors cannot count beyond ten, and some have lost fingers, so only eight bells, to be safe. This was an intermittent side project to keep me from going crazy (didn't work). So we all sanded the chines- 40 feet long times four.
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Budge also sanded the hull sides with the intention of painting (hahahahahahaha)
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Off and on we worked sanding the underside of the chine, sanding and resanding until we discovered major chine problems. The glass was not adhered to the hull in spots (insert epithet here, with vigor)!
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Then...............................................
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Then.....................................................
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Then............................................................................................
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More heartbreak, Ben got out the more aggressive equipment. He is fuzzy with fiberglass shards!
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We are now at the point of removing everything and reapplying the fillet and glass. This consumed the week. We did some side projects.
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Ben routed the rudder notches by hand router.
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 And sanded the rudders.
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I glued extra oak to the tiller blocks to make them thicker.
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We temporarily attached the rudders and put the tiller on so I could measure where those tiller blocks should go.
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1500 mm to the beam trough!
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Then glue on the blocks!
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The thicker blocks in situ.
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Pizza al fresco for lunch, Ahhhhhh, exotic cuisine in exotic places!! The old car seats are there for movie night. A certain hillbilly chic.
I stuck some ptfe on the gaff blocks.
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I have done a bit more to them. I made some ptfe washers and inset them also. I am on the verge of finishing the gaffs. 
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This is Sail O Mat. It's supposed to steer the boat, but all it does is lay about and do nothing. Wait, Ben was supposed to steer the boat with the same results. Must be a union. I'll clean it up and get some new parts (the Sail O Mat, not Ben). Ben still has a couple more days cleaning up the chines, then we all jump back in and fillet and glass them. Will we ever stop re-doing stuff? Whatever you do, never, ever, build a boat!!!!

The Music ♫: Tuck and Patty, "Time After Time"

Nuthin' better than Tuck and Patty! Time after time; chine after chine.
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