May 1st deadline.
Did not make my May 1st deadline, to mount engine. Frankly, June 1st looking iffy too. 3 weeks ago: "I should have the tanks and decks in by the end of the week..." Anyway, lots of nice emails from BP (former owner), he even sent some ply peel! Nice guy, he built a great boat.
Progress! Bracket is out of the mold, console components I got from CMP (almost 10 years ago!) seem to fit my vision of a doghouse, both tanks ins, molded a livewell, and stuck the livewell into the leaning post. Now need to finish the transom, decks, and mount everything. What I have learned:
- Vinylester is better than poly, but stinks to high hell.
- Vinegar actually works pretty well for epoxy/VE clean up.
- I should not be allowed to mold and lay up things: I used a pile of tires for livewell mold, then spent 5 weeks engineering a way to keep this 700 lb 'water cannonball' from rolling around the deck...
So of course I bought an 8 ft crowder 130 UL to go with my brand new tuna harpoon I bought last summer, as well as a GO12 with Halo20+... because projects needs porn I mean motivation. I am not looking forward to sanding/faring that much surface area, it's like mowing an airport.
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