This week Budgetboater spent the week on the two aft hatches. There were a lot of compound (confound!) angles to deal with. He actually broke down and cut finger joints (not fingers) himself (I'm so proud!)
These hatches are trapezoidal in shape and the finger joints will pivot to the correct angle and the epoxy will fill in the gaps.; the best of both.
Gluing the tops on.
Ben was back in the center cabin doing stuff like fillets and glassing............ more bowels of the ship vocalizations. I have labeled this language as "bowelship!"
So, when Budge moved to the new shop a couple years ago, he was burglarized and some idiots took off with a bunch of tools and such (grrrrrrrrrrr). The only thing of mine missing was my neaty-keen ships wheel. This week we replaced it. It is brass (of course) and identical to the lost one. It was built By the Brown Brothers, Rosebank Iron works, Edenborough, Scotland. This is the same company that built the wheel for the Titanic, Hmmmmmmm. My boat can't sink, though, it has watertight bulkheads that divide the boat........Hmmmmmmmmmm, so did the Titanic..........Dam!
I also worked a bit. I held up stuff to show I was working.
The right tool is essential to the task. I was working on the ladders for the center cabins and I ended up buying 5 separate tools to do one thing: drill a hole in close proximity to a corner. I used different ones for different situations. These ladders will have tilt-outs under each step to hold stuff. Building them is not easy. Why do I do this?????
The Music ♪: Towns Van Zandt, If I needed you
A major talent, of course dying way too young. I love love songs; I'm just no good at relationships.......something to do with my incompetency with women.
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