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Black Friday!

11/30/2014

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Naw, nothing happened. It's just an American tradition where we take a lovely peaceful holiday and turn it into a mad frenzy for acquisition of  electronic i-gadgets and Lalaloopsy dolls. We went to the lumber store to buy wood for the tillers. There were no Black Friday specials there. In fact no lumber yards were open that day.......dang! What will old guy woodworkers get for Christmas???

I actually tripled my comments this week. Normally I have none.  Wait.....3 times nothing is still nothing. Anyway, merci to Olivier and good friend, Nick, for their words of encouragement, and I got an oral comment from Budgetboater when he said that he finally liked the music I posted! Favorable remarks from curmudgeons are high praise. I guarantee he won't like this week's music.
 On Monday I started shaping the shelf for the head (aka: the goose shelf). A friend of Budge offered us a bunch of stuff to clean out a storage area so I stopped working on it. We got some good stuff: lumber, a tenoning jig, a propane tank and these lovely oak oval picture frames with dust covers.
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This week Budge and Ben commandeered the starboard hull deciding to finish glassing the tops. This interrupted my work on the interior.  Ben worked hard and filleted the tops. They flirted with the temperature. At 65° the glass adhered; at 64° the glass didn't. It was 65° tops. It fought them. I watched the Boater kids, Grin & Bear It.
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In order to get the glass to stick, the had to staple it!
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Of course, they had to pull them back out the next day
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You can see the staples along the edge. We took the Holiday off. I needed a project, so I started the tillers and gaffs. No lumber for tillers ergo the  60 mile Black Friday trip to the closed lumber yard, grrrrrrrr! We will go back Monday. It seemed that whatever I was planning to work on was in the way of the fiberglass hull project.  Ben faired the applied glass so it would bond.
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Ben and Budge had some favorable weather and pressed on with the glassing on Saturday. They got most of it finished and will finish it up tomorrow.
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I stayed out of the way......they were on a roll.
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Ben coating the surface; Budge saturating the cloth.
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Sticking the stinking sticky stuff on the hull.
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Budge's son showed up from boarding school and helped as much as a fourteen year old can help. Note: matching outfits, tres chic!
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This will pretty much complete the glassing. Budge says he sees a tiny bit of light at the end of the tunnel. I keep looking down at the tracks........................

The Music ♫: Teresa Brewer "Little Grass Shack"

See last week. There are no good versions of this song on U-2B, so I just grabbed one.  It's horrible.
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