I epoxied the decks onto Katie yesterday. I have a coffee jar full of self tapping screws which were given to me in 1985 by Davie Burns my next door neighbour in Scotland. They have been used and re-used for all sorts of projects. Quite a few of them went into my old Wolseley. I used them to temporarily fix the decks to the gunwales, they're back in the jar now for the next time.
Aye Waste Not Want Not Laddie.
Above is my stash of lead weights liberated from Her Majesty's Map Factory about twenty years after they stopped using paper charts. There's an old divers weight in there too. The middle of the deck was tending to spring up a bit and needed persuading to lie down. The after deck, below was even more bouncy so I had to do some improvising and stealth landscaping.
Ratcatcher John got in touch to ask why I was building with reinforced concrete, no doubt he'll have some quip about my strange launch trolley.
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Coming along very nicely, Graham. Really like your buoyancy ideas. Do the side pods not need drains because the foam is at the level of the opening? Hugh Horton has a wonderful seat for his Bufflehead
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Have you settle on rig or is it being stolen from Pam?
Hi Brian, Limber holes for the side pods is just one of the many things rattling around in my head still to be sorted. I want Katie to have her own rig, which she will get eventually but she might just have to borrow Pam's Polythene in the short term.
I too have lead
But not to hand; so if I want to subjugate an upcoming deck, or similar, I have taken to popping a line round the whole thing, tying it off as a reasonably tight loop with a pad or two in the right place. Then sticking on of my more manly screwdrivers under the line and winding round and round until suitable compression is achieved.
A Spanish windlass
And my parents made me aware that sometime shortly after the Armada hove into view there was probably someone of that ilk entered the family tree.
So maybe that's where the habit originated
CW
Dont throw old wheels away. You might need them one day.
Nice build.
I want you to tell me how to make a blog like yours. With a main page and subpages. Your blog is so neat and really elegant.
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