What have you done this weekend...?

Got of my duff and finally built a rack to store most of my boats.



I had previously made the standing posts as supports for a heater tent and they were just taking up space at the back of the garage. Everything else is just nails and 8' 2"x4"s... took me about 1/2 hour...maybe 40 minutes.



Boat on the left is a '50's Thompson resto project patiently waiting and the green one on the right is awaiting the attentions of a sawsall.

 

Bravo. I wondered how you would store all those projects, nicely done as they are.

 

Good grief Par, you never struck me as the noisy type

You can always sell that boat to the bass fishing guys, as long as it is faster than the next guy's boat. You may have to stick some more glitter on it though
I just have to ask, did you take the screws out ?!!!



Lewis, you remind me of me. We build things to hold boats and not boats

 

Flatterer!

Two things prodding me. I want to start on my next build and I have to get the rest of my stuff out of my buddy's garage where it is gathering dust... including my motorcycle, half my mechanic's hand tools and a bunch of lumber. I needed to clear some space in my shop/garage and my soft sided 12' x20' garage/shed/lumber storage area so I could do that. The canoe was in the garage and the Thunderbird was in the shed plus the Butterfly was on my trailer...which I need to move that bike. He is moving this month so I needed to get going... I've only been back in my house going on 4 years now and I have pretty much monopolized his garage for the past...ohhh... 15 years or so.

 

Pretty much the same problem here, only the wife made my workplace a junk heap... with MY stuff. She went and took all the boat parts. machine parts, fiberglass and mostly all the other important things out of the house and stuffed it in the garage. It is so full now I cannot walk there. I'm working on a plan to throw "her" furniture out of the lounge so the space becomes available...

 

4 years ago I went one better... I chucked "her" out of the house so now I can do as I please... like build a boat in the dining room if I want .

 

That's not so easy here... the old witch takes to her broom with the sharpened end, and she doesn't always miss. Besides the food's not so bad

Yes I know, poor compromise

 

I built my first flat bottomed canoe in my living room. I used hand tools, but the pine shavings and sawdust that worked into the carpet made the place smell good for months. Better than any of those little pine-scented air fresheners people like to hang in their cars....

Of course, I was single then. I doubt the wife would let me do an encore now.

 

jeez I feel like that at the moment
I am busy with my "electrical" installation and boy oh boy is this taking time
so I spend weekend after weekend inside my boat running the spiderweb of wiring
and man - can the missus moan about me being inside the boat
the old story = "you spend your bloomin life inside the boat"

 

Manie. I can hear you make that wiring WAAAY too complicated !

From the battery with one main fuse to protect the supply, you run the two wires around the boat.
From there on you simply tap off to what you need powered.

Equipment have their own protection, you only need to protect the wires.

There should be no wiring running back and forth, think in terms of troubles and you have to fix it with what you have aboard...

 

Genius Fanie, brilliant and makes a lot of sense - why haven't you told me this 35 years ago
Used to install hundreds of meters wiring running feeds and earths to and fro through the boat from panel to equipment.....

 

Nice try Wynand, you know I don't have any money

Just ask mate, just ask.

If I'm such a genius, then why the hell am I so poor ?!!!

Btw, the genius lies in how many 5 x 30mm stainless steel screw fuses you keep aboard

 

a bit late now but anyway

when you see my "home office" on the boat you will understand why

when I park off at night I want "good sound" disco style
internet
AND all my toys must work
anchor watch, depth alarm, gps stray alarm, and what not else

because

I started looking for crew again

 

LOL. Looking for crew or screw Manie ?
And toys too... Kinky bugger ! That will do it.
You're not a screamer as well by any chance.... ?

If I was you I'd rip out those long wires and future shorts and sparks and do it the easy way.

 

Guys that need toys, generally are less equipped than others . . .