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Oct. 2nd, 2010 05:52 pmI went canoeing yesterday for an hour in the afternoon. It is getting chilly (I actually wore long pants today); I hope things warm up a bit in the next week or it will be too cold to canoe by the time I finish Constance.
I discovered that all my canoe carrying muscles and canoe paddling muscles appear to have atrophied. Patience felt like she weighed half again as much as she did last summer. I thought working on Constance would keep my muscles strong, but apparently not.
Also I have run into a snag with arranging the seat and back thwart on Constance. I tried to set up a chair to mimic how I would be sitting in Constance (butt and feet at the correct relative heights (with the assistance of the coffee table and a couple of two by fours) with a bar clamped across the chair back at the right relative height compared to the seat. It's not very comfortable. I thought the back thwart was usually a couple of inches behind the back of the seat (that's the appearance in the pictures) Plus when I expanded her middle out to the design width the decks that I so carefully fitted yesterday don't fit anymore.
I need to re-fit the decks, put them in, and put her in the water with clamped in thwarts (I'm faking some up out of two-by-fours) to figure out how far back I want the thwart from the seat. Which also means I need to fake up a seat. Plus I may need to seal the gunwales with something (a quick coat of epoxy?) to keep them from being water damaged.
I feel simultaneously like I've been working hard all day and haven't been doing anything at all, as I haven't made any progress on the canoe itself.
I discovered that all my canoe carrying muscles and canoe paddling muscles appear to have atrophied. Patience felt like she weighed half again as much as she did last summer. I thought working on Constance would keep my muscles strong, but apparently not.
Also I have run into a snag with arranging the seat and back thwart on Constance. I tried to set up a chair to mimic how I would be sitting in Constance (butt and feet at the correct relative heights (with the assistance of the coffee table and a couple of two by fours) with a bar clamped across the chair back at the right relative height compared to the seat. It's not very comfortable. I thought the back thwart was usually a couple of inches behind the back of the seat (that's the appearance in the pictures) Plus when I expanded her middle out to the design width the decks that I so carefully fitted yesterday don't fit anymore.
I need to re-fit the decks, put them in, and put her in the water with clamped in thwarts (I'm faking some up out of two-by-fours) to figure out how far back I want the thwart from the seat. Which also means I need to fake up a seat. Plus I may need to seal the gunwales with something (a quick coat of epoxy?) to keep them from being water damaged.
I feel simultaneously like I've been working hard all day and haven't been doing anything at all, as I haven't made any progress on the canoe itself.
