Another 25 Seafari goes under the knife

[Blue_Heron]

It's been almost a month since my last update. Seems hard to find time to work on the boat. Spent both Memorial Day weekend and the weekend of the 4th out of town, it's scallop season in Florida's big bend, and the shrimp are running on the St. Johns River. I took the kids scalloping June 25th and we're off to Jax this Saturday to see if we can fill a five gallon bucket with shrimp.

Here's what little I've gotten done in the last month. I masked off and painted my boot stripes:





I also did some fairing and sanding on the deck. It's almost ready for primer.








My wife and I met my brother and sister and their spouses at my sister's place in Vermont for the weekend of the 4th. She's got a beautiful place at the south end of the state with a creek running through it. This video is where the creek starts through a series of waterfalls through a gorge that drops into a pool deep enough to swim in.



We spent some time running around on their four wheelers, and to make sure we didn't get bored, my sister put my brother George and I to work making her some furniture. They had taken a maple tree that came down last year and had it sawed into slabs 2 1/2" thick. She wanted George (he's the cabinet maker in the family) to make her a bar top with one of the slabs. I started out to help him with the bar, but there were a couple other slabs that were just begging to become a coffee table. Both pieces are constructed with mortise and tenon joinery.

George's Bar:






My coffee table.

The pieces:



And assembled:



Dave