Canoe Update

[catsittingstill]

I epoxied in the seat rails.  I also coated the outsides of the rails with epoxy so the varnish coats would build up faster.  Doing both of these in one operation didn't work out as well as I expected.  Yes, the bags of rice I used as weight were plastic bags, and did eventually come off the epoxied rails (epoxy doesn't stick to flexible plastic well.)  However the colored design on the bag ended up on the rails when the two parted company and I had to sand it off.  In the process I sanded off one of the subtle pencil marks that showed where the back of the seat would go.  This is not an insurmountable problem, but it is inconvenient.

Once the epoxy was mostly cured (enough that I was confident the seat rails wouldn't fall out)  I turned the boat upside down, and varnished the seat, the thwarts and the outside of the hull.  I pretended I did not have enough varnish and scraped and scrubbed it out as thin as I could, because this produced the best varnish job I have ever done when I did it on Constance.

Unfortunately my hands are now all over sticky and I don't dare touch my instruments until the varnish dries.  (Yes, I'm touching the keyboard.  No, I just don't love my keyboard the way I love my instruments.  That's just how it is.) 

I think I will need to practice *before* I varnish.

I suppose I could look at my music papers and translate chords to roman numerals and see if I can figure out what cadences I've been using and ways I might try to change things up in the future, though.

Varnish Coats:

Outside of Hull 1
Inside of Hull    0
Seat                 1
Thwarts            1
Gunwales        0