For a quick update, I'm still working in the same spot, and still just as busy. The golf season is just about to start up again actually, so its about to pick back up. My daughter is soon going to be four, going on forty. She's starting to show more interest in the outdoors now, and insist she would enjoy camping in tents, so that's an adventure we might try and fit in this summer. I'm hoping to start on a canoe next, so we can go some short overnighters with it. We shall see! Tash has taken on a different career, giving up (for now) on the idea of being a civil tech. She finished a cement mason course last summer, and has been working out in bull arm at that, and really enjoying it. So now the new joke around us, is how I wear an apron at work, and she wears the hard hat, I scrub pots, she uses a jack hammer 30 meters in the air... But I'm ok with it, she buys me pretty things when she comes home!
For example!
So, after all this waiting, over two years, I finally get to make some headway on the boat again. I have yet to pick up the glass needed; reason one, they didn't have any and don't normally carry as much as I needed but told me where to go get it. reason two, I have a few hours of gap filling, and some small mistakes to fix up first anyway. So I'll get that stuff done, then pick up the glass in a couple weeks. And near the end of the project, another gallon of epoxy. Book says it'll take about 1.2 gallons, but I expect to use a bit more then that. I'm going for toughness over light weight. I plan to camp with this boat, and want something that will hold up for rough landings with full loads! Whenever I start to build another kayak, I intend to make something more for day cruising and surfing, that one will be better put together and perhaps lighter (I should have learned from my mistakes by then)
But, that's enough writing for me tonight. Here are a couple pictures I promised in my last post, and never got to. You'll notice the bit of tape at both ends, that was just from a little bit of patching and reshaping I did today. I have a few little things like that I need to get done, but I mix epoxy and sawdust to fill the couple little gaps that I have around the boat. The Worse of them seem to be at both ends, given the sharper angles and twist, I'm not surprised...