Home Depot or Bust

Somehow I think it would have been easier to rent a floor sander from Home Depot!  :-)

Singin', Sandin' Fool

I think I'm loosin' it here! I can't get this tune out of my head!

    I'm sandin' in the rain
    Just sandin' in the rain
    What a glorious feelin'
    I'm hap hap happy again
    I'm laughing at clouds
    So dark up above
    The sun's in my heart
    And I'm ready for fairin' fun
    With a happy refrain
    I'm just sandin', sandin' in the rain

Oh God, someone help me please!

Successful failure

Ooops! Part 2 of the tear/peel test!

On the brighter side of things the second layer of 12 oz is well bonded to the hull so I'm going to go ahead and order some more 12 oz for the bottom. That'll likely be the last layer on the bottom.

Standby....

Screen Doors & The Whale

Been goofing off from boat building the last few days. The ole' screen door on the back of the house fell to pieces so I made a new one.

Being a lot poorer since I retired I picked through some of the scraps and offcuts from the boat project and cobbled up a screen door based on the old one. I knew it wasn't going to be a masterpiece, it just has to keep the cats in the house and the flies out (we're downwind from a cattle farm).

It turned out ok. Still needs a little trimming for a good fit and another coat of paint but being built with some high grade marine plywood it should last quite a long time.

I took some pics with my GoPro camera the other day. It's got a very wide angle lens so I was hoping to get a bigger picture of the boat (Whale) to illustrate it's size. Still, with the wide angle, I couldn't get it all in!

I'll likely video the results of the tear test this afternoon. I had a look at it yesterday and couldn't pull it off so I think its going to be a successful test. I'll probably have to hook up my 2500 lb electric winch to try and pull it off! Standby.

GoPro or Stay Home!

This is my first attempt at doing a video journal of my workin's in the Big Blue Boat Building Shed. It's also the first time I've taken my GoPro camera into the shed. For some reason the audio didn't record (Doh!) so I had to caption it after. It worked out ok.

I've done some videos before with my iPhone but it's clumsy and doesn't have a stand. I know this isn't very entertaining cinema but it was my first attempt.