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

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.

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.

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.

Why did I take a picture of this again?

Oh, yeah, I cut another hole for an AC power outlet.

I also cut some rubber edge strips and glued them on the back.

Ben did the final (Hah!) touch ups on the motor boxes. We''ll put them in in the next day or so.

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.

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. 

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).

I made a couple new ones.

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.

A couple battery box latches and the week was done...............

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........