Beams!!!!!! Awwwwwwwwwww, Never Mind

First a bit of housekeeping. We have added a video link to our yewtewb channel (see up there↑). We are still taking applications for girls in bikinis  to act like they're having fun on the boat (we can't pay anything). Send diesel mechanic certification along with photo. Thanks to Tom for the words of encouragement. We sometimes get mired in the muck and fail to see progress. Ben reads this blog every month or more so he can be assured that we are progressing.
We have discovered that making videos is more time consuming than writing this blog. Filming videos requires that you attend the camera. If you are attending the camera, you're not working. Filming interrupts the work flow. If we just let the camera roll, we end up with incredible amounts of trash footage that we have to watch and edit. It is indeed a new task.......we don't need new tasks. Do not expect a lot of videos. Now on to the real work.

We cleaned up the chips around the bow holes we drilled last week. Waddaya want, videos of pretty young people sailing around and making you feel like you wasted your life?????? This is reality.

We worked on the beams (yaaaaaaawn). The slots needed coating.

Several coats. The black stuff is epoxy mixed with graphite so that, theoretically, the beams will slide on the pins, if necessary. 

Ending up with black stuff smeared around the holes that we had to paint over. So................

We painted the beams, several coats.

We painted the beam troughs.

A few coats...............AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

My side project was to make the plates that cover the beam trough holes where the pins go through the hull. Crap, I don't even get that.......pictures next week................If I remember.

Did you ever open one of those cases holding tools and such the wrong way????

Visiting moth.

At the back of our minds has been the (semi) final assembly problem. We have some big, heavy stuff to put in place. While we waited for the paint to dry, we toyed with moving the pod into place. Now, we could find a guy with a big machine who maybe could drive the ten miles and spend the 30 minutes if he has the time and if our pockets are deep enough. We are still waiting for Larry to show up to move the hulls that we moved last year without him. So....

Cobble a bunch of stuff found in the yard and make a cart for the pod so we could move it.

Now all we have to do is go straight up about 5 feet!

 Ben, like Theseus, unraveling his thread through the labyrinth of the plans. We did manage to get a picture of the guy that drew the plans:

Here he is in his studio.......................................

We did this a lot. Paint roller in back pocket, brush in hand clambering around the hulls. We had two days of rain. We attended two concerts (Eliot Sumner, Alejandro Escovedo) and dragged in at 1:00 AM for the past couple days. The weather finally broke and we have good working conditions, once the dew burns off. Now we have to wait longer for the epoxy to set. Nuthin' is ever perfect.

The Music♪: Allman Brothers Band "Statesboro Blues"

I used to think this was a good version.....................