It's not a boat; it's a continuing conceptual art project involving the intertwining of the passage of time, the eroding of ideals, the conversion of materials, the transformation of an individual and the chaos that results (hey, that's a sitcom). The basic principles: dreaming, reality, execution, and metamorphosis convert a pile of materials and the individual into a boat and a confused captain. Damn, more drivel...... even I cannot stand it. Forget it! On to the boat!
August, the hot month, so what did it do? Cooled down a bit. It dipped to the lower 90's. On to the boat!
Saturday night. I'm off to a concert: Los Texmaniacs; Flaco Jimenez is coming, too. This blog may be late. How would you know? I won't publish it until it's finished. OK, now on to the boat!
OK, I'm back. It's 1:20 AM and I will have to write it in the morning. How was the show? Another one of those great performances that is special and you'd rather not share, unlike the annoying cellphone toters badly documenting the experience while missing it. The lady next to me must have checked her phone 20 times during the show. Now on to the bed.
I have been here four years!! Blogging my butt off. Time to wet this thing. On to the boat, again!
So, Budge worked on the plumbing, moving around in the bowels of the ship (bowel movements, heh, heh). But for a few more parts, the plumbing will be finished. If anything will prevent the scheduled trip to the coast it will be the precarious parts pipeline. Plumbing bits, especially, and fasteners are killing progress. If we need a length of screw or bolt or nut, we have to drive 30 miles one way or order it on line and receiving it in a week....
I moved to the port center cabin, the galley. I have to clean up epoxy glops, missed paint spots, cabinet adjustments, and things that must be finished before final paint.
Like this. The chainplate holes were too low on the hull. I bought some shackles and the shackles touched the hull on four of them, so we had to raise the holes about a half inch and, of course drill them larger and fill them with thickened epoxy and we will re-drill them this week.
Tape over the holes. I used clear packing tape to be able to see the holes. A syringe full of thickened epoxy injected through a small hole in the tape at the top so that air can escape and epoxy can fill the void.
We spent quite a bit of time on the pod top. The front and rear edges are rounded. The sides will have a raised rail edge to divert rain to be able to catch water. Budge used bondo to fill in the dips in the top. I routed the two ends, top and bottom and we glassed the top. Next primer and epoxy coating the bottom. We will not glass the bottom. We turned the top over and discovered that it is now way too heavy to manage easily, and we have to dry fit it on top of the pod. It's 8' square. We don't know how we will accomplish this.
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The side projects abound. A bit of time allowed short stints of smoothing the rough edges on some bow chocks I bought. Tedious. Those rough interior edges will chafe the rope.
Budge started painting the bow. This will be done in short stints over time.
A length of fuel hose cut in short lengths.
Stabilizes the shackles on the chainplates
The big square chainplates are not to plan. Boatbuilding tip #4729: Don't cut a port where the chainplates are supposed to go.
I started lashing various hinges. I do this during non productive time, an hour here, an hour there. Hey! Is that a thinning hair spot on my head, or just a spot stuck together with epoxy or paint?
Oh, yeah....lost a day to rain.
The Music♫: Loudon Wainright III "The Swimming Song".
Earl Scruggs, too? Pure heaven. Everybody in the pool!
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