Author: Carbon Gelatin
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More not a boat
Haven’t had time to work on the boat, so I made a mallet. That’s just as good right?
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March of the mundane
We moved the boat from one spot to another this weekend. Does that not feel like a major accomplishment? Should I not be dancing in the street, swinging a bottle of Champaigne around and spraying bystanders with floods of bubbly booze? Something moved, something happened. Here’s proof that something actually happened, and the project had…
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It’s not a boat…
I’ve had a project in the shop for a while. Specifically, a custom desk for my son Eli. This project has been on again off again for almost a year now, mostly due to the constraints surrounding my ability to get in the shop, the needs of my job, and how busy my family is.…
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Distraction thy name is “organizing”
So, I’ve been out of the shop for a few months now. Dealing with some injuries and an overwhelming amount of “shit that needs done NOW” at my job. Resulting in my shop laying unused for an extended period of time. What does this mean? Well, every horizontal empty surface starts to be filled with…
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Well, Now it’s mine… Most of it.
Had the frabjous experience of going to the Florida DMV, Beacon of order and efficiency, masters of simplicity, and filled with all around delightful people. The Mission? Get the boat titled and registered, get the trailer titled and registered as well. The Outcome? Boats titled and registered (for two years). The trailer… not so much.…
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Figured out what to do first
After poking around, prodding, doing my level best to imitate Rodin’s The Thinker (Down to and including sitting naked on a rock). I have finally determined what the very first thing I’m going to do is (aside from initially removing the garbage that was in the boat). That magical thing? *Fanfare* Removing the Swim Platform!…
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Huh?
Huh, a three-letter word that succinctly sums up my thought process on this project. What am I going to do and in what order? My mind already races well ahead of the starting point and into the land of “Oh it would be so very wonderful to have teak decks instead of carpet.”, “What electronics…
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Ah, the midlife crisis.
After a decade and a half of not owning a boat for a number of reasons such as cost, time, children, family, time, the inability to choose a particular model, time, and the fact that I don’t have time (are we seeing a pattern here?); an opportunity to purchase a project boat recently came up.