What have you done this weekend...?

looks great

 

We had the dream weekend.....ran a half mile in calm seas, got live bait, fished a half hour and lucked into a 120 lb. tarpon on 20 lb. test. The line broke ater 45 minutes (whew!) as the sun was setting. Drank some wine and slept aboard. Woke up the next morning and went home. Now i remember why boats are worth owning.

 

There's not too many things I'm afraid of on this planet but this diabolical device is one of them!



It sounds like a Concorde taking off! A little unsettling at first but it does get the job done!

I set out to make the barn doors today.



I'll hang the top of these with the wonderful hinges a fellow boat builder gave me and my neighbor Robert gave me another pair of extra heavy duty hinges for the bottom. I don't think they'll see much service and will be semi-permanently closed. When it's time to pull the boat out of the shed I should be done with the shed so it can be dismantled at that time.

It took a little trial and error to get used to the flame thrower! It seems there's a bit of a time lag between applying heat to the plastic and it actually starting to shrink. If you linger too long over an area it melts.



If you look close here you can see where I did exactly that. Good thing I bought the patch tape when I bought the heat shrink plastic. It works wonders. If you get too close to the plastic the flame thrower will burn straight through. That's what I did here.



That patch tape works wonders. Hopefully as I get a little more used to this equipment I'll need less and less of it.

Well that's probably it till next weekend. Standby......

PS. When working with a flame thrower have the garden hose on standby, don't ask how I figured that out! Standby to standby......

 

Well...my shed is smaller, not hand made and no where near as nice but she goes up tomorrow! I cleared the spot behind the garage today, moving the Thompson and the canoe over and out of the way. Good opportunity to mow the lawn so I did that also. The neighbors (other side) are putting up a fence so a lot of trees that are growing into my mesh fence are getting removed (nice of them) but I had to chop up a bunch too. Anyhoo...here is the spot. I did up the framing last Monday so it wouldn't take so much time tomorrow. A buddy of mine is going to come over and help...hopefully we can get the whole thing together in one day. If not it will be a couple of weeks before we can finish it...we'll see. Oh...and it is 20 x 12 x 10. That's 6.5 x 3.8 x 3 (ish) in metres





Here is the back yard collection of boats...there are a few more in the garage. These will be moved to the shed to make room for...more boat construction!

 

actually working on a boat

I spent the weekend working on my 20' rowing boat. cut out the bottom (fiberglass) and am reconfiguring the hull to have a hollow entry, flat run and a narrower botom that will gain about 4 cubic feet of volume in the hull. Running the numbers on my computer I got some very good results that indicate that resistance in flat water should be around 8 pounds at 5 knots. I think that's very optimistic and can accept results that put resistance at 10 pounds and still have made a big improvement in preformance. Biggest drawback will be less initial stability, but with plenty of reserve stability as the hull is quite wide with a lot of flare. Think Swampscott dory and you've got the basic shape. The bottom is only 14" wide, beam at the gunnels is 50". Trying to have it ready for a race on Oct. 23thd.

 

I spent the weekend getting a tattoo and cleaning up the yard.. wish I could've been on the water!

 

Got a lil' more done on the shed today before the wind kicked up. Too tired to post pics so I just updated my blog site if you want to see pictures.

http://she-kon.blogspot.com/

Thnx. Going for a nappy now! :?

 

I'm too tired to type anything. I'll just let the pics speak for themselves.

 

As my wife just remarked, "very nice".

 

Yes, 'tis indeed 'very nice.' Much nicer than I would have expected, without the pictures.

I'm having a wonderful weekend, working overtime. I'll have worked ten days in a row by the time I get done.

Then I get one day to run home, see the doctor, sign legal papers for the manufactured home we're trying to put on one of our properties, say hello to the wife and do my laundry. That evening I have to drive 120 miles and get a room in Valencia for a union meeting early the next morning; and after it's over drive 260 miles back here and work two more days.

A busy two weeks....especially since my work days are 12-hour shifts.

 

I put in an estimate for an 80 ft fishing boat rebuild that sank on rocks, when not one of 13 crewmen could be bothered to stay awake at 4.am on autopilot

 

If you get the job, don't hire any of them.

 

hey thanks , good advice, they spend too much energy shouting here, they have little time left for work

 

Absolutely fantastic

congratulations well done KnottyBuoyz

 

Cool ! Hey Noughty, which vegies do you plan to plant in that hot house

Envious...