Saturday, January 15, 2011
Planks and Plastics
This is why we sawed and screwed with the planks: to keep the plastic tarp off the wooden sides of the boat, in order to keep moisture from accumulating and ruining the mirrorlike 32 layers of varnish on the mahogany.
Friday, January 14, 2011
It's been a while!
And as you can see, winter happened big time!
We'd left Summertime unattended for a snowiest month in ages. So, even though the snow banks curtailed the wind, their pressure also cracked the plank in the front of the boat. So, off to our plank supplier Bauhaus we went, selfservicing ourselves all the way, and then screwed together an even better design for the plank, with gambrel-style end-plates.
We replaced the broken plank with the new one, shoveled some snow, and also taped up the air inlet to the engine to prevent snow and rain accumulating there.
That's it for now, stay tuned for more shoveling!
We'd left Summertime unattended for a snowiest month in ages. So, even though the snow banks curtailed the wind, their pressure also cracked the plank in the front of the boat. So, off to our plank supplier Bauhaus we went, selfservicing ourselves all the way, and then screwed together an even better design for the plank, with gambrel-style end-plates.
We replaced the broken plank with the new one, shoveled some snow, and also taped up the air inlet to the engine to prevent snow and rain accumulating there.
That's it for now, stay tuned for more shoveling!
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