One of the rituals of fall for us has been the final car club cruise of the year. This year we returned to the Calabogie Motorsports Park. It’s a wonderful drive through some very scenic countryside.At the first stop in Almonte, ON for a coffee break a…
Archive | She:Kon RSS feed for this section
Got tired of tripping over sh*t
so added a little organization to the boat shed.Just happened to be on sale yesterday at Crappy Tire so I snapped it up. I added the shut off valve and the pressure regulator that I had left over from other projects.My Jeep has developed a case of “Dea…
It’s that time of year
to start buttoning up everything for the onslaught of winter that’ll arrive soon! *sigh*I had a visit from a fellow boat builder, Peter Lenihan. I don’t know if you remember Peter but he built a Bolger Windemere (Turtle Bay) and launched it last year. …
I’m not happy
with the results of the other day’s epoxy session. I’m going to put boat building on hold for awhile. Hopefully by the spring my knee will be better and my mobility not as restricted. I’ll also go looking for a helper who doesn’t want $50/hr, retiremen…
These friggin’ guys
on the Internet make it look easy! Like hell! Six hours on top of the boat today and I only got one half of the keel epoxied. Up and down, up and down! I feel like I’ve been rode hard and put away wet! ;-)I had a hard time getting the heavy fabric to l…
A little whine with my cheese please
Bit of a frustrating day. The designer specifies two layers of fabric for the keel. The first layer has the fibers oriented in a 45/45 degree pattern. The most common biaxial fabric. The second layer has the fibers oriented in a 0/90 degree pattern. Wh…
Working at a leisurely pace
suits me me thinks!Well on my first day of “retirement” I wandered out to the shed after my morning coffee and started to roll out the long fabrics to laminate the hull.This is the first layer of 1708 biaxial fabric to go on the keel. It gets trimmed a…
Swallowing the anchor.
After 32 yrs in the Coast Guard this is my last day! The second happiest day of a sailor’s life, walking down the gangway for the last time. It’s been an adventure. Now it’s time for the real fun to begin! 
Take me on a magic carpet ride
well not really. It’s a 90 lb roll of fiberglass hovering above the hull!All the keel seams are sanded and just need to be wiped down. Gotta wait for a lil’ breeze to do that so the fumes don’t knock me out!Just takin’ a lil’ break now waiting for the …
Boy is it windy out there today!
Winds were gusting to 65 km/hr this morning. I was just about to climb back up on the boat for another session of seam sanding when a gust blew this section off the roof of the shed!That’s funny ’cause I don’t remember building in a skylight! 😉 This …
