Manie's Microcruiser

My magties man mooi so Manie my maat !

It looks better all the time ! The beeeg hole in the stern, is it an escape hatch or is that where the water can leak out

 

Mondays i cant walk straight so stiff and sore of being on my knees in the boat all weekend - the age thing is showing up from time to time
Jeez so close to sixty- what the fu3k happened to the last 40 years - and wonder i do

anyway took the peelply of this evening and the fillets and joints are good
definately worth the blood sweat and many tears

self draining cockpit and i am mounting the outboard there as well
will show pics as soon as i have the strenght to pick the 5hp up

aneeeeewaaaay my fillets and glassing is kinda ok hey - what say you old farts
dont give me **** if you cant show a better one he he

what do they say ? keep on boating / building cant remember wtf

 

Manie, to clean those consolidating rollers, burn it off over a lit gas ring on your stove then rinse off/cool under water, comes up just like a new "bought one"... If I remember I will get images of our mixing system for resin & micro-spheres...

I was surprised the link actually went somewhere when most Americans (well USAnians anyway as I don't know about the Canadians or Mexicans and many others) have difficulty in calling a toilet a toilet, seeing nipple bumps, speaking bluntly about hygiene and so forth... (Yet can call people "motherf'ckrs" - something is Nuckin Futs there???)

 

Well well, its Sunday eve and i am back home from the Vaaldam
mayor party, laughed till i cried, and then some more
talked about boats - bikes - broads and very little else
we all raced motocross in those days KTM - Husky - Honda 600 XLR = me - Kwaka - Yammy XT500 and what not else (no sissy road bikes)

here are two pics of my buddies, we have been mates since school days,
now that our kids are all grown up we have the great fun of getting together every 3 months to talk **** and get pissed - absolutely farkin marvelous

THEN and NOW
what the fu3k happened
fu3kit we were young yesterday

Eers Wiele en Piele
nou Brille en Pille

= First wheels and *****
now Reading glasses and tablets
LOST IN TRANSLATION
but you get the general idea

 

The only difference I see is the one pic is taken on the dry, the other in the water.
At least it's a step in the right direction...

I may have found a proper paint for us...

 

Your shorts got longer

 

Beards and a couple of other things too, all the wrong things though

 

Gotta store that beer somewhere

 

Nice photo-edit in the more recent picture. The guy with the black shirt was clearly holding a beer bottle or can which has been edited off.

 

The edit was a good thing. Can you imagine what was in his other hand

 

You got a better streamline, and bigger toys!

 

I am no Spielberg and I probably will never see the red carpet at the Oscars
but its kinda fun learning all about video and getting it on YouTube
my little digital camera has a video function that obviously leaves a lot to be desired, but i thought if you cant do it small how the heck are you going to do it big, so here are my first two videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RRfSvzY4no

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WwNzKqopC4&feature=channel

i am in the process of updating my blog which is way behind but the little videos at least gives a summary of where i am at now with the build.
Building will start again in January because the wife and i are off to the mountains for two weeks now, and when i get back i am GOING SAILING for a week with the academy (Indian Ocean)

for those of you that are following this thread and the blog:
thanks for the support
merry Xmas
and a very happy New Year
god bless

 

Good work, Manie, both carpentry and camera.

 

Mooi so Manie !! Knap gedaan.

Wat staan op die geel papiertjie in die twede video ????

 

Yes, what was written on the yellow paper. It was too blurry for me to read.
You guys, I am starting to learn Afrikaans a word at a time.