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catsittingstillI have been waking up at 6:00 am. I don't sleep as soundly in the morning as I used to, and Kip is getting up at that hour to go teach 7:00 am classes, and once I wake up I start thinking about the canoe...
The insomnia stage--I think it means I'm in the last big push.
Anyway, I've been noticing, it's getting cool in the mornings. It still hits the high eighties or low nineties in the middle of the day, but it's in the low sixties at seven in the morning. Instead of the high seventies.
Fall is coming.
Aaagh! The most beautiful time of the year to canoe is coming and my canoe isn't done! Aaaagh!
And it turns out that Jeffries is happy to joint and plane your board for an extra 30 cents a board food, which saved me a lot of time when I took it to Maryville High School because Martin helped me cut it up and cut the scarfs to piece it into gunwales.
So now when my forearms start burning I can lay off with the sanding and glue the gunwales together. I'm going to do scuppered inwales this time but I have plenty of walnut left over for that.
And I have begun thinking about placement of the seat and middle thwart. Plus I shall make a wide place on the inner gunwale for the clamp in yoke to clamp to, since I'm going to need a yoke if this boat is going to Quetico, and clamping to the outwales is heavy and clumsy. So when I can't work with my hands I can stare and mutter and measure and pace a lot.
The insomnia stage--I think it means I'm in the last big push.
Anyway, I've been noticing, it's getting cool in the mornings. It still hits the high eighties or low nineties in the middle of the day, but it's in the low sixties at seven in the morning. Instead of the high seventies.
Fall is coming.
Aaagh! The most beautiful time of the year to canoe is coming and my canoe isn't done! Aaaagh!
However, I am making progress. I went to Martin (who builds them with his shop classes) and bought some backup epoxy (he gets it six gallons at a time and was happy to sell me a gallon and a half, at cost.) I stopped by Jeffries Woodworks on the way and bought walnut. Because, you know, I had perfectly good ash but it just doesn't go! With the colors! The butternut accent strips just cry out for walnut trim!
And it turns out that Jeffries is happy to joint and plane your board for an extra 30 cents a board food, which saved me a lot of time when I took it to Maryville High School because Martin helped me cut it up and cut the scarfs to piece it into gunwales.
So now when my forearms start burning I can lay off with the sanding and glue the gunwales together. I'm going to do scuppered inwales this time but I have plenty of walnut left over for that.
And incidentally I found a piece of white pine so thick I can resaw it to make bookmatched white pine decks. Which will look smashing in between the walnut inwales. And I escaped Jeffries for under 20$.
And I have begun thinking about placement of the seat and middle thwart. Plus I shall make a wide place on the inner gunwale for the clamp in yoke to clamp to, since I'm going to need a yoke if this boat is going to Quetico, and clamping to the outwales is heavy and clumsy. So when I can't work with my hands I can stare and mutter and measure and pace a lot.
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Date: 2010-09-02 03:20 am (UTC)I'm assuming you mean a board foot. But the notion of board food is wonderfully whimsical. I wonder what they eat?
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Date: 2010-09-02 11:58 am (UTC)Food in general is sometimes referred to as "board" as in "room and board." Food for boards...I was tempted to say sawdust, but that would be cannibalistic. Hmm.
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Date: 2010-09-02 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-02 10:15 pm (UTC)This should show them, if I did the code right.
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Date: 2010-09-05 02:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-07 11:23 am (UTC)Some people install bulkheads and even hatches, even under the small decks, so it would be possible to use the very ends of the canoe for storage. In my opinion, this works against one of the strengths of the solo canoe, which is that the ends rise easily to the waves because there isn't much weight in them (most of the mass is near the center of a solo canoe so rotational inertia is small.)
Also the canoe becomes less and less stable the farther from the middle the paddler crawls--which means you can't reach anything in the very ends except when you're standing in shallow water next to the canoe. So it's not as useful.
However, I need to keep a spare paddle in the boat (in case I drop mine in the water) and I usually push the blade of the spare under the deck. That way it's out of my way, but I can reach the handle easily if I need it in a hurry. So I guess that's kind of storage, of a specialized sort.
Hopefully that isn't too much more than you wanted to know :-)