Stuff Done
04 June 2012
Spring cool
STUFF DONE
June 4, 2012
We cannot believe it is already June and we have seen two Atlantic named storms already. After a full pop ten plus evening yesterday, it is windy but nice today. I have three projects for this week and two of them are already done, thanks to a crew vote on appropriating the funds to hire someone to go up the mast rather than the chubby bilge coolie. The missing Windex™, a casualty of Irene last year, actually left the mounting plate with set screw so it was simple to slip the new one in place since the mounting holes matched up with the old ones. The fellows that did the deed are both sailors and were very professional, meaning quick and good. So, the chubby bilge coolie, that would be me, did not have to deploy the ATN Topclimber™ and spend the rest of the day ascending the mast. That’s a good thing although just watching them do it is cause for a nap. The remaining project is the final segment of the swim deck wood inlay on the rear locker lid. The other two were still factory glued. That was tough stuff to remove. Then I remembered that I used 5200 on the locker lid last year. Big mistake! It took a full afternoon to remove the two square feet of wood (mostly in inch square splinters) on that lid and then I virtually had to used game skinning techniques to slice off the residual. Have I ever mentioned that I hate 5200? I already done, thanks to a crew vote on appropriating the funds to hire someone to go up the mast rather than the chubby bilge coolie. Not only that, things went swimmingly well since the replacement deck/steaming light am convinced that we, as a nation, would incarcerate bad guys by using 5200 to glue their butts to something heavy. Anyway, it is back to the locker lid.