Sea Sled madness. It’s in my brain.

Excellent point! I do a lot of wiring in houses. Surface laid just isn't as nice.

 

Man, I'd scarf some ply and not think twice about it. I can scarf up 4 sheets in about an hour with a plane. I wouldn't even waste the time on calling a store to ask if they had longer stuff, personally.

I find a lot of people avoid scarf joints but in plywood they're dead easy.

 

Well now I'm all inspired. Thanks CR.

 

With your woodworking skills I bet the moment you pick up your plane, you'll wonder why you thought of something else first. You're probably both faster and more accurate than I am, but with epoxy and a bit of wood flour, even I can scarf stuff together as necessary.

The boat I'm working on now, I meant to butt block one section...but the plane was sitting right there and I actually think it was less work than making sure the butt block wouldn't interfere with anything else.

 

Night and day

 

I see a sea sled in your near future DC!

 

It keeps moving away as I chase it. Outdoors in the winter in Canada isn't as ideal an environment as it sounds. Most folks dont know this, but it gets cold in the winter here.

 

Boy is that ever true...the first week of my ongoing project was just "put a wood stove in the garage.". And yesterday I got cocky because it was sunny during the day, but by the time I started rolling out the epoxy, it was just below freezing in there. I had to hit every inch of tape with a heat gun to get the epoxy to flow.

Lesson learned, start with the fire.

 

It gets cold up north? Whodathunkit! Man it gets -50 in north Dakota. I know it's cold! That gets to your bones.

I have to hand it to you guys though, you're troopers in that cold. I'd curl up and die.

 

I can only imagine the panic mode you were in CR. I wouldn't even attempt it. I have enough trouble with epoxy when it's warm.

 

It was a little aggravating, for sure. Mostly I didn't want to stop long enough to get the fire going. But it turned into three hours of hand-massaging epoxy into 12oz tape with a heat gun in my other hand. I was pretty sick of it by the time I finished, and dinner was pretty late.

But I had a look at it at lunch today and it set up pretty well with few voids or bubbles so maybe it wasn't such a bad way to go after all.

That said... today, I get the fire going first.

 

Indeed!

 

I have cold weather epoxy that will cure at 35F. But colder than that now.

 

Epoxy and cold do not mix.

 

I did a large area just a few degrees above freezing, rain outside the shelter. Amine blush like frost on a car's windshield. Poop