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Who even knows, man.
He has a vet visit this morning so poor Mookie is zooted on his anti-anxiety meds
It's not a competition and lots of dogs excel, but Turtle might be the cuddliest of them all
It's not a competition but I don't think anyone snoozes as hard as my guy Mookie
We did it! The pdx stolen cars Facebook group does great community work, and I've got this bad boy back needing only some gas and a bit of ignition repair
Hey Portland, if you see the 1986 Toyota MR2 with silly red/yellow wheels and the license plate VCP 230 it's mine and it's stolen, please call it in! It is noticeable and I would be thrilled to get it back.
Turtle has a sore spot on her paw that she's licked raw so she is in the soft cone whole it heals and she is trying to solve the navigation puzzles it presents with force to mixed results
All right we're in business, the honduran mahogany finally came in the mail. I patched a few small holes and epoxied the whole floor to stabilize the cracks. This will get a layer of glass and epoxy yet but was still a surface finish to focus on
My apologies to this spider, but sawdust and spiderwebs is a dramatic combo
Not a ton of progress this last week but I'm nearly done with sanding the floor and have glued a few things discretely. Once I'm done sanding I can stabilize all the cracks and loose wood with epoxy. I can't put the new fiberglass layer on until I patch the wood sides and screw on the new keel.
Next is stabilizing all the wood. I can epoxy the cracks in the floor now but patching will have to wait on the veneer I ordered online getting here, as we're years past easy local access to Honduran mahogany. (We shouldn't really ever have had it, but that is a separate conversation)
Well so much for my optimism, looks like I was always going to be making a new keel. These screws are a rusty mess. Always use brass on boats, kids!
Fiberglass floor is gone, safe for a few stubborn patches that fight on. Now chipping the slots clean and removing the brass screws holding the keel on. I'm hoping I can refinish and keep using the keel (the bent ends are cooked, but removable and separate so that's fine) but we'll see
On we go, separating the old fiberglass from the wood when I'm lucky/good involves running a palette knife between the two to shatter the brittle old resin. If the fiberglass is weaker it leaves a patch that's annoying, but it mostly isn't
The outside isn't bad, just one old crack to patch and then some filler and a shiny new paint job
Now ripping up the floor fiberglass, which is easily (in relative terms) don't thanks to the same uv damage that caused the ugly delamination
Started with ripping the old gunwales off. They were punky enough that I was getting rid of them regardless, but whoever "overhauled" this in 1981 ringnailed the inwale and outwale together from the outside, bad moisture practice and also a fastener requiring destruction for disassembly
Check out these sweet permits from Grand Teton National Park in the early 80s
Finally ran into an obscure book I was curious enough about to sign up for interlibrary loan and even if I can't get the book this is the most exciting search prompt I've seen in a long time