Got the first coat of bedliner material on the front deck.

First task was to pump the water out of the bilge (rained last night), then vacuum and clean the front deck area well. A wipe down with Xylene (per manufacturer's instructions) and tape off the edges where I didn't want it.

OK, maybe just a trim.

Took today off to make use of an exceptionally nice day here in Atlanta. About 70 degrees, a little overcast, but no rain. After several weeks of drizzle, rain and/or colder than normal weather, it was nice.

Got the roof edges trimmed flush to size and started mounting the first of the cabin sidewalls. Its really different to stand inside the cabin and actually feel somewhat closed in. 

An alternate title for this could be "do it right the first time".

As I think I mentioned, the "deal" I got on ply for the cabin roof wasn't a good deal. It fell apart rapidly and made a real mess. This week I finally had a few hours to work on things and tried to rework and improve on this mess.

Actually got to work for a few minutes... nice to see something happen again.

Rear Deck at Transom

This last Saturday got a little while between rain to work on the boat. To do that, I was "forced" to promote Dane to lawn mowing status, so that while he rode the mower around and arond, I could supervise him and get some stuff done.

Lawn mowing

Around the many marinas of the world, so many boats sit idle, many seemingly never used.

With life intruding so much, I haven't gotten much time to work on my build over the previous few weeks. In the last couple, it seems I haven't even been out to "visit" a boat that is literally in my own back yard. I've thought of it often, but the more I'm away, the less immediate the desire to work on it becomes. I can only imagine how the same problem arises with people who have boats mored hours away from their homes.

Well, another few days of little-to-no boat work. As I discussed before, having daylight and no rain to work in becomes important when you're building outside. I am still slowly progressing on obtaining some rubberized paint to seal decks and finish that part out.

The latest rains have been much better about not flooding the boat... only minimal pumping required. This shows I have things fairly well sealed (there are still a few open areas that I haven't addressed yet).

I usually don't care much for Daylight Savings Time... I want them to just leave things well enough alone. Well, now I wish I had more of it. With my work hours and the current penchance for darkness about 6:30 pm, I don't really have a chance to work on the boat in the evenings.

I had really hoped to have the cabin closed in a bit better by now, so that I could do interior work more often in the evenings, since worklights are more practical (not to mention it will be getting cold soon). So far, i haven't made it, althought I still have hopes.

Since our last installment, we've accomplished a few minor tasks and one semi-major.

I used the new jigsaw (very impressed with that Bosch 1587AVSK I got) to cut the remaining ventilation slots in the bottom of the rear frames. Since the rear deck is sealed in place, if any water gets in there needs to be adequate air circulation to let things dry out. I'm assuming any water will be condensation or waves, not leaks (sounds good, anyhow, right?).

My run on tools seems to continue. After looking some more (and cutting by hand a bit more) at the inner floor supports since the jigsaw is dead, I decided to move to the foredeck and see if I could clean up some of the poor Xynole laying I had done.