So, after the tomfoolery of last week, and, in between bouts of rain, and our attempts to escape the drudgery of actual work, we worked on my beams. Budgetboater's 3 beams were moved and Ben has the rash to prove it!
We used wide straps slung over our shoulders to manipulate those massive monsters of manufacture to their storage location. Ben and I, in a fit of laziness and ennui, took off to get new work shoes. Wearing cheap shoes does not cut it when standing around on rocks all day and our shoes and feet paid the price. Cheap soles telegraphed the uneven ground to the bottoms of our feet and caused us to roll the shoes over to an uneven wear pattern.
The shoes were shot after a few weeks and had to go back. My niggardliness does not permit me to spend a lot on shoes that I will destroy with e-pox-e so it was a delicate dance to find a good enough shoe for a good enough price. I settled for a pair of inexpensive work shoes. This took a couple days. We also had a work stoppage due to a lack of stuff. On Tuesday, the supply ships arrived via truck and we got 44 lbs. of cellulose.
And 45 gallons of epoxy!
The nitrile gloves arrived, too. So, out of excuses, we went back to work. Boatergirl was again put to work sanding the beam parts. She sanded.
And sanded.
And..................oh, never mind. She said her wrists hurt. We gave her a stick to bite for the pain ( I'm never sure you get any of these references). Ben and I started gluing on the nicely Boatergirl sanded pieces to the beam webs. After working on Budge's beam behemoths, they seemed positively dainty.
Ben worked really really really hard to clean them up to his exacting standards.
So we managed to glue all the beam bottom supports on.
Same ol' stuff, gluing with thickened epoxy.
The season's first hopgrasser. Hide the women and children! The wildflowers are still gorgeous and we saw a couple new ones. With all the beam supplies removed from the wood rack, it looked a lot thinner, so we rearranged what was left. This took a day. It was rainy anyway.
we also organized the scrap bits in the scrap bins.
Boat builder tip # 6347: save all scrap. You are always digging through it for a piece yay by yay to use as a support block or whatever. And you usually find it!
The oak, unorganized to be organized. So, next week we may actually accomplish something. We went saleing for a couple days. Garage saleing! Got a bunch of junk that may or may not be useful. I was crawling around in the bed of the pickup dragging in a desk we bought for Mrs. Boater. The next thing I knew, my knee started hurting.This getting old crap is getting old!
The Music♫: Stan Rogers "Barretts Privateers"
Another song By Stan Rogers. His version is the best. We glory in the tales of pirates, but they actually were just criminal gangs. This song is another bit of advice to boat builders: it's never what you think. Man plans, Got laughs.......................
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