Leaning Post/ Livewell

[warthog5]

HeHe I love the "Fellow Ships Law" I to use it, but I didn't know the math formula.
The wife sometims would come out to the shop and see me sitting staring at it. She'd say "Are you alright" Sip Sip Sip What ah yea. I'm studying. Sip Sip Sip. HeHe
As usual Strick has shown the way to perfection. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

He is a piece of an email he sent me the other day and I hope he dosen't mind me posting it.

I have an invite to go sturgeon fishing tomorrow but am not going so I can work on my boat. Am I sick or what?

My responce;

HeHe That's a illness we have. Only true boat restores get it, but every day we don't work on our boats is one less day we get to use it. I've done the same thing.

[strick]

During the fall when I was working on my boat in the early mornings I would hear the shot guns going off in the distance.... it was my buddies in the marsh hunting ducks. I was invited many times to go but my disease prevented me from doing so. The only cure is to get it finished so I can use it. I'm hoping the beer will speed up things. Thanks guys.

Strick

[abl1111]

"A Disease " - that's so true. Some people are tinkerer's and other's aren't.

Since I discovered tools as a kid and good directions on how to do things, I cannot remember the last time that I did not have some huge project going on; from tearing my 10 speed apart to re-paint, re-doing a P.O.S. '69 Mustang, building dunebuggies out of VW's, rebuilding motors, then the boats came: gutting and minting an old '65, 17' Boston Whaler, gutting and minting a 19' Sailboat, and now this - the 23' SeaCraft...

And during each project, I promise myself that this is the last one. That's the beauty of fading memory, over time, you forget the bruised hands and body, the fiberglass itch, the frustration, all the agony - and all you remember is, " Hey, look what I did "

So, if my track record means anything - I'll be doing this stuff till I'm an old fart...

[strick]

I'm still waiting for the cushions to be made but here is where I'm at right now. It's all primed with Duratec sanding primer. There will be a big cushion covering the area where the live well sits and for your back to rest on. The front will have a set of cushions as well for leaning against and then to sit on with a back rest. It's going in the backyard for now till it's time to paint everything. I've got a ton of other things to work on [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Strick

[ScottM]

Very nice work Strick!!

[FELLOW-SHIP]

If we hade a beauty contest I think your boat would come in best of show.
P.S. Don’t forget the Beer Factor.
FellowShip [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[strick]

Thanks Fellowship but I still have so much work to do and so little time to do it. The boat still has to be sanded and painted and I still need to figure out what I'm going to do about my bracket. I think I need to take a week off soon and get some beer and get to work!

Sunday I had a little time to make a flange for the livewell that fits over the rectangular opening of the leaning post. As you can see in the previous pics there is a gap of about 1.5 inches down to the livewell. I wanted to seal this area off. The flange fits snug around the outer lip of the livewell top. This was an easy thing to make out of a few scrap pieces of MDF. I just wiped some wax on the mini mold when it was finished and then layed up 2 layers of 1708. It poped right off easily when it hardened. Here are a few pics of it in the raw form. I have to cut and grind it still. I still have to figure out what kind of lid I want for the livewell.

Strick

[Bigshrimpin]

Strick . . . Nice work!! I was wondering how you were going to bridge the gap between the seat and the baitwell.