Yesterday sucked. Today's better.

I've had my IROC-Z in a storage container at a local business since last year. I bought winter tires for the Jeep off the young fella running the place and he let me store my summer wheels in there as well. Stopped in there yesterday to get them and they're gone. Fark! Fark! Fark! The guys owning the place now all plead ignorance. Figures. Fark! So yesterday I brought the IROC and our RV, which was parked there too, home. I need two tiered parking lot.

The Fleet is In

It was pouring rain all night and being a Sunday I waited till after 10:00 to go out to the shed and make noise. I'm puttering around and hear Junior rattling around somewhere. When I look up he's in between the Tyvek and the plastic of the shed! Fark! What a dork!

Had to tip toe on the top step of a ladder to get him down. And without missing a beat he's off to inspect the boat workings!

So with no plan I set to work. Pulled the bottom portion of Frame E2 for port & starboard. Good as any to glue in.

Laying out the ingredients. Woodflour epoxy glue, tape & spatula

After applying glue a shaped trowel makes a nice smooth radius

Tape laid into fresh glue ready for epoxy.

Starboard side taped and glued

Port side gets same treatment.

 Granted that was only one side of the frames. I'll finish off the other side tomorrow. Each of these frames will get a second layer of tape later on. It's not much but it's progress.

Just a shout out to some of the YouTube boat builders I watch:

1. Acorn to Arabella
2. Lady Dew
3. Life on the mold
4. Salt & Tar
5. Rebuilding Tally Ho
6. The Sea Dreamer Project
7. SV Rusty Junk
8. SV Seeker

There's a few more but they're not as active as these guys. Drop in and have a look. Make sure you hit the thumbs up for all of them. It's nice to know I'm not alone in this crazy dream. :-)

Standby....