Today started out kind of slow. I have been wanting to get out to the Venture and fool around but life happens. I finally decided damned the temps full speed ahead! Mostly it has been moving things around.We have been using the boat to store some stuff in light of all the drama that was happening. Since I'm stuck here, with a house I cant sell yet, for a while any way, the decision , as painful as it is , to move the stuff back inside and stick it in a corner some where and get back to what's important to me! If I cant sell this place for a while I'm darned sure going to get this boat ready and take it ANY PLACE that will sustain sailing even if it is Lake Texhoma for the duration!
Having said that! Well its still a good day. I'm out side in the boat. Its about 82 degrees F according to weather bug at 3:16 AM. . The good thing about the houses immediately around me being empty is the misc noises I make fooling around late at night are not a problem as if my neighbors were really close. Now I cant exactly start up a drill or a power saw but little noises like dropping a hammer or climbing in and out of the boat are not going to give any one a sleepless night. Decided to pull the chain plates off. Not happening with only one person.Have to have someone man a screw driver on the out side while I pull off nuts on the inside. Did get the measurements for backing plates. I figure to get some 3: x 1.8 inch . I;m figuring 6 feet should be enough to get that part done. Am going to get new bolts k, nuts etc so all the metals match .
Have been playing around with the idea of going ahead and saving up for the solar panel to get the wiring started. Have to get a wiring plan figured out. Its only a 22 ft boat so I'm figuring rough eye balling it , the longest run I should have is maybe 16 ft.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Work Progresses On Venture
Well it's slow but steady. Finally we have the chain plates out! It took two of us. One on the outside holding the slotted bolt head still with a screw driver while I was on the inside taking off the nuts with an adjustable wrench. Had planned on using a socket but my 3/8 " drive came up missing. Can you say HOT! Even several hours after sunset it was 90 something degrees out side. I think maybe it had to be over 100 in the cabin. Sweat was literally pouring off of me after about 20 minutes, It took a lot of cool down breaks but we got her done.
After we pulled the chain plate off of the port side we noticed the deck plate that goes on the out side holding it in place was not comg loose. As it turns out a previous owner riveted the silly thing to the deck. It took some doing and I 'm still going to have to drill what is left of the rivet out,but its off.
Last night was about pulling off more of the rub rail to get the bolts that hold the deck to hull out. It is the only way to repair the spider cracks. It's not just skin deep. After I sanded out the parts already done it became very evident the cracks go into the glass, not just the gel coat. THIS BITES!
We keep finding more dirt dabber nest. I THOUGHT I had all of them out but it just goes to show you these things make nest in the most hidden places they can find. After I climbed in under the cockpit I found two huge ones hanging from the wiring to the stern light,. Tore out the smaller of the two but the large one was not going to come out with out a fight so while I sent my helper in to go get a hammer to smash it with I took pictures.
This is AFTER I had already knocked a good chunk off with the socket wrench.
Just to give you size perspective of what was left after I had whacked it a few times.
The thing was a big as my fist and ROCK HARD!
Some where along the lne the previous owner had either one doozy of a sense of humor or was a geniume lame brain. I'm not sure which. How did I arrive at this conclusion? Did you notice the "back plates" under the stern light above? The only other "back plate" on this entire boat is the one above and this next shot of the other wiring connection to a deck fitting. I suppose it is better then nothing.
I just do NOT want to trust my life to it! That does not include how incredibly uncomfortable I am with that set up considering the odds of it malfunctioning right when the lake patrol is in my area. Yes, we have a cop who does nothing but go run around the lakes to make sure we are all behaving our self and have our safety equipment in place. LOL! Seriously He is a pretty decent sort of guy. I'm reasonably sure if it was not for guys like him there are a lot of folks in this area who would ignore safety completely and we would have more accidents from it, so its not necessarily a bad thing. I have spoke with him on the phone a time or two with questions about area lakes As it turns out for the lakes immediate surrounding my area only one can be sailed in, and then only during the day! Is it any wonder I want OUT OF HERE!!!!!!
Life goes on.
That's all for now, Sail safe but sail!
After we pulled the chain plate off of the port side we noticed the deck plate that goes on the out side holding it in place was not comg loose. As it turns out a previous owner riveted the silly thing to the deck. It took some doing and I 'm still going to have to drill what is left of the rivet out,but its off.
Last night was about pulling off more of the rub rail to get the bolts that hold the deck to hull out. It is the only way to repair the spider cracks. It's not just skin deep. After I sanded out the parts already done it became very evident the cracks go into the glass, not just the gel coat. THIS BITES!
We keep finding more dirt dabber nest. I THOUGHT I had all of them out but it just goes to show you these things make nest in the most hidden places they can find. After I climbed in under the cockpit I found two huge ones hanging from the wiring to the stern light,. Tore out the smaller of the two but the large one was not going to come out with out a fight so while I sent my helper in to go get a hammer to smash it with I took pictures.
This is AFTER I had already knocked a good chunk off with the socket wrench.
Just to give you size perspective of what was left after I had whacked it a few times.
Some where along the lne the previous owner had either one doozy of a sense of humor or was a geniume lame brain. I'm not sure which. How did I arrive at this conclusion? Did you notice the "back plates" under the stern light above? The only other "back plate" on this entire boat is the one above and this next shot of the other wiring connection to a deck fitting. I suppose it is better then nothing.
I just do NOT want to trust my life to it! That does not include how incredibly uncomfortable I am with that set up considering the odds of it malfunctioning right when the lake patrol is in my area. Yes, we have a cop who does nothing but go run around the lakes to make sure we are all behaving our self and have our safety equipment in place. LOL! Seriously He is a pretty decent sort of guy. I'm reasonably sure if it was not for guys like him there are a lot of folks in this area who would ignore safety completely and we would have more accidents from it, so its not necessarily a bad thing. I have spoke with him on the phone a time or two with questions about area lakes As it turns out for the lakes immediate surrounding my area only one can be sailed in, and then only during the day! Is it any wonder I want OUT OF HERE!!!!!!
Life goes on.
That's all for now, Sail safe but sail!
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Boats and 100 degee weather
Yesterday started out kind of slow. I have been wanting to get out to the Venture and fool around but life happens. I finally decided damned the temps full speed ahead! Mostly it has been moving things around.We have been using the boat to store some stuff in light of all the drama that was happening. Since I'm stuck here, with a house I can't sell, for a while any way, the decision has been made, as painful as it is, to move the stuff back inside and stick it in a corner some where and get back to what's important to me! If I can't sell this place for a while I'm darned sure going to get this boat ready and take it ANY PLACE that will sustain sailing even if it is Lake Texhoma or one of the area lakes for the duration!
Having said that! Well it was still a good day. I got outside and in the boat. I started out right after sunset. When I finally looked at the clock, it was about 82 degrees F according to weatherbug at 3:16 AM. . The good thing about the houses immediately around me being empty is the misc noises I make fooling around late at night are not a problem as if my neighbors were really close. Now I can't exactly start up a drill or a power saw but little noises like dropping a hammer or climbing in and out of the boat are not going to give any one a sleepless night. Not having to worry about my trouble light shining into any ones bedroom window makes it nice. It's how I plan to beat the heat for the not so noisy parts any way.
Tried to pull the chain plates off. It's not happening with only one person. Have to have someone man a screw driver on the out side while I pull off nuts on the inside. Did get the measurements for backing plates. I figure to get some 3: x 3/16 inch . I'm figuring 6 feet should be enough to get that part done. Throw another 2 ft of 1/4 inch for new chain plates and I should be good. Am going to get new bolts, nuts etc so all the metals match . That and some bytal tape (spelling) and I'm good to go. I have been toying with how to do this. The voc tech school here has a class that operates a hug computer operated metal cutting machine . You see where that is going, right? Have to wait til it opens but what the heck I'm here any way may as well make the best of it. If that don't work I'll get the Dremel out and do it my self. I looked up sources for the metal . WOW can you say EXPENSIVE! If any one has a source for 316 Stainless 3/ 16" x 2" or 3/ 16 x 4",at a decent price PLEASE post it or send me an email!
Have been playing around with the idea of going ahead and saving up for the solar panel to get the wiring started, Have to get a wiring plan figured out. Its only a 22 ft boat so I'm figuring rough eye balling it , the longest run I should have is maybe 16 ft, not counting mast of course. I've got enough block to raise this gal up and drop the keel, so that is on the agenda s a definite.
Where is all this going?
The baby boy has LEFT THE BUILDING! Now that the set back is almost over, once again I am free at last! Momma's days of being Momma on a full time in house basis are OVER! We had a minor setback this last three weeks but things are getting back on track! I honestly cannot decide who this pushing your fledgling out of the nest is harder on. Yeah, at 28, since the medical issues are resolved, its time for him to be on his own. NO DOUBT about that.
What I do not get is why, once they are "on their own", when your child steps into the "goo" and ask for your help, do they seem to think that this willingness to help them sort it out, as in think it through to THEM finding a conclusion and or solution THEY CAN DO, means in THEIR OPINION, you and your assets are on call 24/ 7 all of a sudden, as if they were three again? OK, I get that it takes time for them to adjust to a new life of living on their own.. That's just a case of they have to get experience and there is only one way to get that. What I do not understand is why it suddenly becomes (in their opinion) your crisis? Can you say OY!
Parents teach your children how to plan! Make sure they have coping skills for really bad days! Teach them that THEIR LACK OF PLANNING IS NOT YOUR CRISIS! My son understands what caused the problem. He was taught the skills to cope with adversity. Some things only come with getting knocked down and pulling your self back up. This was one of those. Time will tell how long it takes for all that stuff we tell our children that they did not want to hear takes root and gets solid. The good news is at 28 he only has about a year and a half before that second coming of age that seems to kick in at 30 starts to take effect.
The good news is he has a really good distraction so now mother won't be the single most important women in his life. He found Ms. Right! I got to spend sometime getting to know her. She is a trooper! She will definitely do to ride the river with . She in not a wimp by any means. We have been talking about what I'm planing on doing with my life . At first all kinds of bad experiences were really making her anti boats. Now you KNOW that aint going to work very long around me, right? We had some talks .She seems to be slowly coming around,. Last night she informed me that being afraid of boats, sailing etc over what happened in her childhood was not sometime she was going to allow to continue,. The girl has MOXY There are very few things that make me want to climb up into someones face but, oh by howdy! I'll not go into the details as it is not my story to tell, but I would so love to keel haul or at least,put a extraordinarily large knot on someones head after hearing about the DUMB STUNT that some so called adults played on some children!.
The GREAT news is this gal is the one that has him inspired to do all that stuff men are supposed to do. Who would have thunk it! LOL
I must have done sometime right. My other son informs me he also has started a relationship with his Ms. Right. She also sounds like a trooper and a basically well grounded gal. RELIEF! Who knows maybe grand children are on the horizon? Time will tell.
well I guess that's it for now. Think I'm going to go get my tools out and ready for later when the sun goes down. I have some hardware to pull off a boat.
Sail safe but sail!
Having said that! Well it was still a good day. I got outside and in the boat. I started out right after sunset. When I finally looked at the clock, it was about 82 degrees F according to weatherbug at 3:16 AM. . The good thing about the houses immediately around me being empty is the misc noises I make fooling around late at night are not a problem as if my neighbors were really close. Now I can't exactly start up a drill or a power saw but little noises like dropping a hammer or climbing in and out of the boat are not going to give any one a sleepless night. Not having to worry about my trouble light shining into any ones bedroom window makes it nice. It's how I plan to beat the heat for the not so noisy parts any way.
Tried to pull the chain plates off. It's not happening with only one person. Have to have someone man a screw driver on the out side while I pull off nuts on the inside. Did get the measurements for backing plates. I figure to get some 3: x 3/16 inch . I'm figuring 6 feet should be enough to get that part done. Throw another 2 ft of 1/4 inch for new chain plates and I should be good. Am going to get new bolts, nuts etc so all the metals match . That and some bytal tape (spelling) and I'm good to go. I have been toying with how to do this. The voc tech school here has a class that operates a hug computer operated metal cutting machine . You see where that is going, right? Have to wait til it opens but what the heck I'm here any way may as well make the best of it. If that don't work I'll get the Dremel out and do it my self. I looked up sources for the metal . WOW can you say EXPENSIVE! If any one has a source for 316 Stainless 3/ 16" x 2" or 3/ 16 x 4",at a decent price PLEASE post it or send me an email!
Have been playing around with the idea of going ahead and saving up for the solar panel to get the wiring started, Have to get a wiring plan figured out. Its only a 22 ft boat so I'm figuring rough eye balling it , the longest run I should have is maybe 16 ft, not counting mast of course. I've got enough block to raise this gal up and drop the keel, so that is on the agenda s a definite.
Where is all this going?
The baby boy has LEFT THE BUILDING! Now that the set back is almost over, once again I am free at last! Momma's days of being Momma on a full time in house basis are OVER! We had a minor setback this last three weeks but things are getting back on track! I honestly cannot decide who this pushing your fledgling out of the nest is harder on. Yeah, at 28, since the medical issues are resolved, its time for him to be on his own. NO DOUBT about that.
What I do not get is why, once they are "on their own", when your child steps into the "goo" and ask for your help, do they seem to think that this willingness to help them sort it out, as in think it through to THEM finding a conclusion and or solution THEY CAN DO, means in THEIR OPINION, you and your assets are on call 24/ 7 all of a sudden, as if they were three again? OK, I get that it takes time for them to adjust to a new life of living on their own.. That's just a case of they have to get experience and there is only one way to get that. What I do not understand is why it suddenly becomes (in their opinion) your crisis? Can you say OY!
Parents teach your children how to plan! Make sure they have coping skills for really bad days! Teach them that THEIR LACK OF PLANNING IS NOT YOUR CRISIS! My son understands what caused the problem. He was taught the skills to cope with adversity. Some things only come with getting knocked down and pulling your self back up. This was one of those. Time will tell how long it takes for all that stuff we tell our children that they did not want to hear takes root and gets solid. The good news is at 28 he only has about a year and a half before that second coming of age that seems to kick in at 30 starts to take effect.
The good news is he has a really good distraction so now mother won't be the single most important women in his life. He found Ms. Right! I got to spend sometime getting to know her. She is a trooper! She will definitely do to ride the river with . She in not a wimp by any means. We have been talking about what I'm planing on doing with my life . At first all kinds of bad experiences were really making her anti boats. Now you KNOW that aint going to work very long around me, right? We had some talks .She seems to be slowly coming around,. Last night she informed me that being afraid of boats, sailing etc over what happened in her childhood was not sometime she was going to allow to continue,. The girl has MOXY There are very few things that make me want to climb up into someones face but, oh by howdy! I'll not go into the details as it is not my story to tell, but I would so love to keel haul or at least,put a extraordinarily large knot on someones head after hearing about the DUMB STUNT that some so called adults played on some children!.
The GREAT news is this gal is the one that has him inspired to do all that stuff men are supposed to do. Who would have thunk it! LOL
I must have done sometime right. My other son informs me he also has started a relationship with his Ms. Right. She also sounds like a trooper and a basically well grounded gal. RELIEF! Who knows maybe grand children are on the horizon? Time will tell.
well I guess that's it for now. Think I'm going to go get my tools out and ready for later when the sun goes down. I have some hardware to pull off a boat.
Sail safe but sail!
Monday, July 9, 2012
07/09/2012
Changing the description at the head of the page has been on my mind a lot this last week. This blog started out as a DIY on The Toy. It has morphed into a DIY about home repair, other projects and life. The Toy is still on the bucket list. I need to order the fiberglass cloth and epoxy to get hull #1 ready to float. For now the plan is fibeglass it, get at least 1 boat seat, preferably 2 on it, put the rudder and lee board on on and figure out the sail. High aspect or low is the question on the ail;. Also I'm putting a net between the main hull and the out rigger. Have the out rigger set up and waiting to attach already. The over all plan on The Toy has gone back and forth between shortening it up, keeping it as is and using it as a banana boat until I do the other hull.
Basically things have morphed into what we call life. It happens. It's all good. There is a reason for eery thing. How things will turn out is any ones guess. That is what makes life such an experience. Things are settling down now that my son has gotten his own place. He is getting set up and doing all the "newly on his own" things. He has done amazingly well on some areas that have very happily surprised me. He went from being my son to this full grown man over night. LOL It makes sense. We are all a lot different when we are not around our parents.
It is rather nice being able to turn on my music full blast and not worry about interfering with any one else's activities. Jimmy Buffet is my current favorite vocalist. In between that and working on the boats a bit at a time sanity is maintained. LOL
Have the paper work to get the Challenger registered. Planning on sending that off this next payday, if not sooner.
Have been working on a way to increase the budget. Off and on over the years I've had some ideas that I have jotted down in various places and have decided the only way to do this is rearrange the order I THOUGHT I was going to get things done in and jump ahead to the writing aspect. Have what is basically a childrens book I'm working on to publish on Kindle, once I get it fleshed out. It's a teaching thing but I believe it will fit into the world of boats quite well especially for children who are blssed with a cruising life style.
Will see how it turns out. Once it is done, I believe I will follow in the wake of one of my newly favorite sailing fiction authors and offer it free for a day or 2 when it is first released.
It's all good. I'm not on the water yet, but I'm slowly making progress. Decided to check out the Adsense thing I keep seeing. I got the basic placement set up yesterday and already I see ads. That was really fast. I do not know how much it will help but it can't hurt so there it is. I HATE the need to go commercial but a gal has to do what a gal has to do. My son moving into his own place means he is not paying his share of the bills any more and has cut my disposable income in half. OH well, it's not like I did not know this day had to arrive. It's all good. I've been in tougher spots.
That's abot al for now.
Sail safe but SAIL!
Changing the description at the head of the page has been on my mind a lot this last week. This blog started out as a DIY on The Toy. It has morphed into a DIY about home repair, other projects and life. The Toy is still on the bucket list. I need to order the fiberglass cloth and epoxy to get hull #1 ready to float. For now the plan is fibeglass it, get at least 1 boat seat, preferably 2 on it, put the rudder and lee board on on and figure out the sail. High aspect or low is the question on the ail;. Also I'm putting a net between the main hull and the out rigger. Have the out rigger set up and waiting to attach already. The over all plan on The Toy has gone back and forth between shortening it up, keeping it as is and using it as a banana boat until I do the other hull.
Basically things have morphed into what we call life. It happens. It's all good. There is a reason for eery thing. How things will turn out is any ones guess. That is what makes life such an experience. Things are settling down now that my son has gotten his own place. He is getting set up and doing all the "newly on his own" things. He has done amazingly well on some areas that have very happily surprised me. He went from being my son to this full grown man over night. LOL It makes sense. We are all a lot different when we are not around our parents.
It is rather nice being able to turn on my music full blast and not worry about interfering with any one else's activities. Jimmy Buffet is my current favorite vocalist. In between that and working on the boats a bit at a time sanity is maintained. LOL
Have the paper work to get the Challenger registered. Planning on sending that off this next payday, if not sooner.
Have been working on a way to increase the budget. Off and on over the years I've had some ideas that I have jotted down in various places and have decided the only way to do this is rearrange the order I THOUGHT I was going to get things done in and jump ahead to the writing aspect. Have what is basically a childrens book I'm working on to publish on Kindle, once I get it fleshed out. It's a teaching thing but I believe it will fit into the world of boats quite well especially for children who are blssed with a cruising life style.
Will see how it turns out. Once it is done, I believe I will follow in the wake of one of my newly favorite sailing fiction authors and offer it free for a day or 2 when it is first released.
It's all good. I'm not on the water yet, but I'm slowly making progress. Decided to check out the Adsense thing I keep seeing. I got the basic placement set up yesterday and already I see ads. That was really fast. I do not know how much it will help but it can't hurt so there it is. I HATE the need to go commercial but a gal has to do what a gal has to do. My son moving into his own place means he is not paying his share of the bills any more and has cut my disposable income in half. OH well, it's not like I did not know this day had to arrive. It's all good. I've been in tougher spots.
That's abot al for now.
Sail safe but SAIL!
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Options, Revenues and Providers
In the course of being part of several sailing and boat forums I've picked up a lot of learning these past couple of years. A lot of insurance info has been on the boards lately. Since eventually this is something I am gong to check out for my self I decided to put a page dedicated to just marine insurance. It occurred to me to open this up for others to post providers they know for all to have handy in one place by using comments. As I was posting that page it occurred to me adding a page for other products those who have already been there and done that have used satisfactorily. I decided to open up the page of products I have used to others to post their favorite BOAT RELATED items, using the comments section.
Revenues. We all need to eat. I am opening this site up to advertising. If this offends please forgive. I figure it is not going to put a huge amount of money into the sailing kitty, but every little bit helps.
PLEASE DO NOT just start clicking thu thinking your helping me if you have no interest in a product. It hurts the site marketability. If however you are interested in a particular product, please do so. The site only pays if you actually buy something from a link. Also please be advised that google does collect information when you click thru.
Revenues. We all need to eat. I am opening this site up to advertising. If this offends please forgive. I figure it is not going to put a huge amount of money into the sailing kitty, but every little bit helps.
PLEASE DO NOT just start clicking thu thinking your helping me if you have no interest in a product. It hurts the site marketability. If however you are interested in a particular product, please do so. The site only pays if you actually buy something from a link. Also please be advised that google does collect information when you click thru.
Saturday, July 7, 2012
FINALLY!!!! It's About BOATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
While I am doing the hopefully FINAL sorting of the stuff in the house, I'm working on the Challenger as my sanity keeper. The Venture is still in the drive way but she is full of stuff I have yet to sort through before I put her up on blocks to drop the keel. This is how I'm keeping my sanity in the mean while. Yeah I'm getting flack from some of the guys over the method and materials I'm using. By their standards and expectations, I'm cheating like an erring husband on how I am doing this. For this reason I make an open and honest offer to those who feel very strongly about how I should be using the two part epoxy on these little fixes. Please feel free to shop and order the materials you think I should be using and ship them to me. I will be more then happy to use them and even give you a blurp as donator. Email me for my shipping address.
Having said that, on to the boat. If you remember I picked this up last summer with the idea of fixing it up for my son. Well he is on his own, several states away and I'm not about to carry it THAT far on the top of my car. I now have another toy to play with . You can tell I'm just heart broken over that development, right? :)~
Finally got her up on blocks to work on.
Sorry about he angle but had us use my cell phone and that aint gonna take a close shot straight on.
Initial work to be done.
There are some gouges and dings along the keel. This one is the worse with out actually being a full fledged breach.
Then there is this one which is a full blown hull breach.
A close up of breach.
Then there is the transom. The story that goes with boat is it got hit by a string lawn mower TWICE.
Been busy sanding her down. Wouldn't you know the sander went kapluie. I have go to learn how to replace bushings in these sanders! I do however have a LOW COST idea on how I am going to temporarily solve that little problem. All I have to do is go digging in the shed which is another spot every thing is stashed in for now. GRRRRR I'll let you know how it turns out AFTER I try it.If it is successful. This idea is so nutty, I'm not telling in advance.
Now some of you guys are going to hate this but I've been using JB weld products for years quite successfully. I've saved TONS of money using their line. They make water weld and I got some. So far I have 2 1/2 tubes invested. Beats what epoxy cost. Yes, I thought about getting some filler and using the polyester epoxy. It cost 18.00 plus a can and I have ZERO experience using that kind of set up. Before I do it on a boat I actually hope to be in the water with THIS SUMMER or what is left of it, I went with the water weld. It's about SAILING remember?
In no particular order here are the current pics.
That's all for now.
Sail safe but SAIL!!!!!!!!
Having said that, on to the boat. If you remember I picked this up last summer with the idea of fixing it up for my son. Well he is on his own, several states away and I'm not about to carry it THAT far on the top of my car. I now have another toy to play with . You can tell I'm just heart broken over that development, right? :)~
Finally got her up on blocks to work on.
Sorry about he angle but had us use my cell phone and that aint gonna take a close shot straight on.
Initial work to be done.
There are some gouges and dings along the keel. This one is the worse with out actually being a full fledged breach.
Then there is this one which is a full blown hull breach.
A close up of breach.
Then there is the transom. The story that goes with boat is it got hit by a string lawn mower TWICE.
Been busy sanding her down. Wouldn't you know the sander went kapluie. I have go to learn how to replace bushings in these sanders! I do however have a LOW COST idea on how I am going to temporarily solve that little problem. All I have to do is go digging in the shed which is another spot every thing is stashed in for now. GRRRRR I'll let you know how it turns out AFTER I try it.If it is successful. This idea is so nutty, I'm not telling in advance.
Now some of you guys are going to hate this but I've been using JB weld products for years quite successfully. I've saved TONS of money using their line. They make water weld and I got some. So far I have 2 1/2 tubes invested. Beats what epoxy cost. Yes, I thought about getting some filler and using the polyester epoxy. It cost 18.00 plus a can and I have ZERO experience using that kind of set up. Before I do it on a boat I actually hope to be in the water with THIS SUMMER or what is left of it, I went with the water weld. It's about SAILING remember?
In no particular order here are the current pics.
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| This is where the sander died . GRRRRR |
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| Almost partially done with the first sanding . |
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| Remember that really nasty hull breach? |
That's all for now.
Sail safe but SAIL!!!!!!!!
Horse of a different color
Well its been a while. I have been in the south. We had arranged to go work for a guy doing some "minor " repairs on his house. Nothing big. Refinish a floor, refinish his wrought iron, little stuff like that. He was wanting us down there and as any on who has redone a boat knows things ALWAYS take longer to do then anticipated and doing this house as no exception. so between him and me, we decided to go ahead, use his tools, and get down there. I wanted to take the Venture since the original idea was a place to work on it and get her in the water. Tires being as high priced as they are we decided to leave her here. go ahead and go do the job to make money for all this other stuff.
Turns out the floor he wanted to refinish was in a room filled with things he really should have put in storage It would have taken three days to just to get that out of there.
Nothing was ready to work on. Spent the first couple of days sorting through his garage looking for tools. and changing lite bulbs. Then he wanted to gripe about it.
Its funny I told him flat out I was not up for anything that required a license yet he wanted me to do plumbing. One thing led to another and he wanted us to do major remodeling like replace his windows in the front of his house etc. Now all of that we could have done. That was not the deal breaker.
The job allegedly came with a 28 ft RV. The orignal agrement was he would provide hook ups for and we would purchase on payments for my son. W wold work out some sort of contribution fr the utilities. Almost immediately he wanted me to rent a spot at an RV park, Now housing and 10.00 a man hour is not to bad but when he took away the housing 10.00 an hour aint all that much when your paying motel bills or rv space plus hooks ups. the profit margin crashed on that one. Still that was nothe deal breaker. The fact that he wanted get work that wold have easily cos him way more then 10.00 an hour done as cheap as possible I can understand.Yes, I still have all the emails about this.
The travel trailer has storm damage which was repairable we knew that up front. When we got there and tore into the damaged area to see how extensive the wood frame damage was, come to find out that trailer has BLACK MOLD in it. I've done black mold twice. Once for myself and once for a lady I did garden wort for as a personal favor. THAT STUFF CAN KILL YOU! Not something I want to Tackle especially not for 10.00 an hour after he had already tried to rip me off on wages. Black mold or mold of any type is a dangerous thing! It is HEAVILY regulated by state and federal law.
Long story short in between that and him trying to gip me out of wages it did not last. The final straw that broke the camels back was his hidden agenda. He knew this was a TEMPORARY THING! He is in my groups and knew , same as any one else does that MY GOAL IS BLUE WATER! NOT living in an land locked area ANY WHERE! He came up while we were working on the wrought iron and tells me his real goal was to use the travel trailer to see how we did on it with the idea m and his brother would take turns hiring us to do work in his brothers RV rebuild place and his house. He was trying to "help" his bother since he apparently has trouble keeping people hired. IN THIS ECONOMY? That told me right there all I wanted to know. When he old me that I about dropped my jaw to the ground. After we go done working I told him we needed to solve the housing problem He allegedly went blank on ideas. He started griping about how I had not brought the boat., which he agreed to before we left. I gather his idea was that we would live in he boat when we found out the black mold was s to bad to stay in the travel trailer. I guess he figured he wold have us by the short hair and in a bind. I told him we were gong to go eat and he should text me if he had an idea. Spending the night in a COLD mountain area in my van with two dogs and packed to the roof was not my idea of how I wanted to live. Did not have enough cash left since I had spent ever thing to just get there to do his job, so we headed south. Sleeping in the van is one ting but freezing our butts of while doing it is a different horse altogether.
Yeah, I should have called OSHA or NLRB. I have something much more effective in mind. I am letting providence deal with him. Momma always said, what you do will ALWAYS come back to you and I expect he is going to get to walk a long walk in our shoes, sooner or later.
The good news is my son found him a place in a very nice area and is now on his own.
Me? I'm back in Oklahoma getting things set to up to deal with house. Have an unexpected gliche but nothing that can't be solved, It is just going to delay selling house a bit. If your a praying person, do me a favor and pray the problem gets resolved so I can get house sold.
In the mean time I am working on tiny things to get house ready to go and working on the 16 foot challenger.
Sail safe but sail.
Turns out the floor he wanted to refinish was in a room filled with things he really should have put in storage It would have taken three days to just to get that out of there.
Nothing was ready to work on. Spent the first couple of days sorting through his garage looking for tools. and changing lite bulbs. Then he wanted to gripe about it.
Its funny I told him flat out I was not up for anything that required a license yet he wanted me to do plumbing. One thing led to another and he wanted us to do major remodeling like replace his windows in the front of his house etc. Now all of that we could have done. That was not the deal breaker.
The job allegedly came with a 28 ft RV. The orignal agrement was he would provide hook ups for and we would purchase on payments for my son. W wold work out some sort of contribution fr the utilities. Almost immediately he wanted me to rent a spot at an RV park, Now housing and 10.00 a man hour is not to bad but when he took away the housing 10.00 an hour aint all that much when your paying motel bills or rv space plus hooks ups. the profit margin crashed on that one. Still that was nothe deal breaker. The fact that he wanted get work that wold have easily cos him way more then 10.00 an hour done as cheap as possible I can understand.Yes, I still have all the emails about this.
The travel trailer has storm damage which was repairable we knew that up front. When we got there and tore into the damaged area to see how extensive the wood frame damage was, come to find out that trailer has BLACK MOLD in it. I've done black mold twice. Once for myself and once for a lady I did garden wort for as a personal favor. THAT STUFF CAN KILL YOU! Not something I want to Tackle especially not for 10.00 an hour after he had already tried to rip me off on wages. Black mold or mold of any type is a dangerous thing! It is HEAVILY regulated by state and federal law.
Long story short in between that and him trying to gip me out of wages it did not last. The final straw that broke the camels back was his hidden agenda. He knew this was a TEMPORARY THING! He is in my groups and knew , same as any one else does that MY GOAL IS BLUE WATER! NOT living in an land locked area ANY WHERE! He came up while we were working on the wrought iron and tells me his real goal was to use the travel trailer to see how we did on it with the idea m and his brother would take turns hiring us to do work in his brothers RV rebuild place and his house. He was trying to "help" his bother since he apparently has trouble keeping people hired. IN THIS ECONOMY? That told me right there all I wanted to know. When he old me that I about dropped my jaw to the ground. After we go done working I told him we needed to solve the housing problem He allegedly went blank on ideas. He started griping about how I had not brought the boat., which he agreed to before we left. I gather his idea was that we would live in he boat when we found out the black mold was s to bad to stay in the travel trailer. I guess he figured he wold have us by the short hair and in a bind. I told him we were gong to go eat and he should text me if he had an idea. Spending the night in a COLD mountain area in my van with two dogs and packed to the roof was not my idea of how I wanted to live. Did not have enough cash left since I had spent ever thing to just get there to do his job, so we headed south. Sleeping in the van is one ting but freezing our butts of while doing it is a different horse altogether.
Yeah, I should have called OSHA or NLRB. I have something much more effective in mind. I am letting providence deal with him. Momma always said, what you do will ALWAYS come back to you and I expect he is going to get to walk a long walk in our shoes, sooner or later.
The good news is my son found him a place in a very nice area and is now on his own.
Me? I'm back in Oklahoma getting things set to up to deal with house. Have an unexpected gliche but nothing that can't be solved, It is just going to delay selling house a bit. If your a praying person, do me a favor and pray the problem gets resolved so I can get house sold.
In the mean time I am working on tiny things to get house ready to go and working on the 16 foot challenger.
Sail safe but sail.
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