Went to do a little painting and sanding the other day and wound up cutting more holes in my boat. Dane got me going on the cabin side "porthole" windows and we got a good bit knocked out.

Did get the front and rear door windows sanded, along with some filler I had put on the transom. Then moved to sanding the hull a bit prepatory for another coat of paint. Was going to get Dane to work on that but he lobbied for the portholes.

Happy Halloween!

I apparently got the trick end, instead of the treat, at least as far as boat building went.

We loaded up and  went down to my folks, and was going to get some of the welding done on the trailer frame. Have to get that finished up down at the welder before I can bring it back home to get it wired up and a boat on it.

It rained. 

I am not a Dr. Suess fan... yes, I'll admit it. Never cared for it. I can't remember having liked his work even as a kid. Melanie and Dane, they love his stuff. As payback for various sins, I had to read various Dr. Suess books to Dane in his pre-reading days - over and over and over.

Dane is an excellent reader now (thankfully) and can get his Dr. Suess fix on his own.

No, not the weather, but rather the build.

Sometimes things just seem to keep you away from boat building. And then you fall out of the "habit" and its hard to get moving again. Recent travels and decidedly non-dry weather here in Atlanta has kept the build moving pretty slow. Hopefully we can get things moving again.

If you are considering building a boat, be ready for the Noah jokes. You might also be compared with the star on the NCIS TV show who is always building a boat in his basement, but Noah seems more common.

Most of the time I go along with it in good fun. Doesn't really bother me. Recently, I began to wonder if maybe its not such a joke.

There is something about me and hinges that just don't work. If you remember, I bought some nice, fancy hinges for the rear sponson covers and they didn't work. I of course didn't find that until I had them open, messed with and the receipt lost.

Following that trend, the other day I picked up a strip of piano hinge to see about using for the rear deck side lockers. Upon closer examination, I figured out it was the wrong size. At least I figured that out before I cut it in two (it was cheaper to buy a long section than two shorter ones).

Well, at least this time it was on purpose...

Rear door window

Did manage to work on the boat a bit and got the rear cabin door window cut and framed out. The frame pieces are just temporarily mounted in the picture and still need to be sanded, painted, etc. 

Well, a week or so of not much progress on the boat. The only thing I did on the boat was pump out some of the torrential rain we had this morning, and the spray the ants that were coming onboard in three different places. I guess it has the ant seal of approval. I don't know why small bugs (ants, spiders, lizards, etc.) take up with the boat so much. To top it off, I have a rabbit that lives under the hull a good bit of the time :-)

Most of my work (which hasn't been much) in the last couple of weeks has been painting. First off I painted the rubrails. I know, why would you paint a rubrail? Well, it looks better than the PVC I used, and it gives the bare PVC some UV protection that I think it will need.

Most recently the "boat" work has really revolved around the new trailer.

My Dad has been so great about working on it, I hardly recognized it when I got down to his place this weekend.

He's removed all the upper "structure", gotten it cleaned up nicely, straightened the two forward cross members that had been bent in various encounters with the ground, and generally been working away.