Literally! So I’m sanding away yesterday and by noonish the temp in the shed reaches 85 F. Add another 10 degs up on top of the boat and that’s pretty warm. So I thought to myself, it’d be nice to have a fan up here. I’ve done it before with the large …
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Mystery Tool. Any ideas what it might be?
My Dad picked this up with a box of old woodworking tools. Absolutely no idea what it is or for. It says The “Gipe” Patent. Google turns up nothing. My only guess is maybe a swaging tool or something to do with rigging cables etc.Of course none of us a…
Added a few features
I added a Wishlist for the boat the other day. Not everything on this list will be required before the boat goes in the water. Just some forward thinking and dreaming. We’ll outfit the boat as we go and get what we need when we can afford it. I found a…
Reminds me of an old tune
I remember watching these video’s a few years before we started our project.
74′ Home Made Boat – Burden of Dreams
It really got me thinking of our dream and what, if anything, we could realistically achieve with my meager skills, meager funds and general lack of functioning brain cells. It reminded me of the song:
The dream never dies just the dreamer
the dream never dies if it’s strong.
by The Cooper Brothers
After watching those vids and thinking hard about what it meant I scaled back our dream. Think we found the project that was right for us and that’s what you see us doing in this blog.
Anywho, I know you’ve been waiting for another sanding video so here it is! Enjoy! Remember this is my life right now! 😉
Later gator’s!
Took the day off
Yesterday I took the day off. Went to Timmies for a coffee. Drove down by the river and watched some ships go up bound. Picked up some groceries. Did the dishes. Made the Admiral her dinner and just vegged. Dunno why just wasn’t really motivated to wor…
Just a brief update
Yesterday I Quikfair’d the stbd side bottom panel from just behind the bow thruster to the end of the keel. That area is pretty freakin’ big. I had originally intended to do the entire side but by the time I got to the end of the keel (about 95 degs in…
Not a whole lotta action
in the ole’ boat shed this week. A bit of fairing & sanding etc. Then today my buddy Peter showed up all the way from Montreal for some nostalgic boat sanding. It was very very nice to have company in the shed for a change (other than a cat or two …
Happy Father’s Day
Happy Father’s day to me! 
Miracle of Miracles the Princess Auto Father’s Day flyer finally showed up in my email. Went to see the Admiral and said: “I been thinkin’!” This usually results in her replying: “Uh oh!” To which I repli…
Production TW28 in Turkey
Was shown this link today. A company in Turkey is producing the TW28.
Here’s the brokers listing.
NORTH AEGEAN TRAWLER 30 – WEEKENDER
At today’s exchange rates it works out to:
$74,400 USD
$80,750 Cdn
Of course I had to photochop the picture of it to see what it would look like with the hull extension I did on our hull.
I’m liking that!
So maybe that wasn’t such a good idea
The rattle can primer as guide coat may not have been the best solution. It is horribly messy, seems to have penetrated deep into the Quikfair and gums up the sand paper. Oh well, live and learn. I’ve already got it on the other side of the boat but no…
