Ready for paint and canvas

Moved the dinghy yesterday, on the old pickup canopy is a good place for it to be stored when I’m not using it for a while and don’t want it in the truck. Let it sit out in the heat of the day for a day to give the glue and wood filler another day to cure good, will put the first coat of paint on it this morning. Yup, still have the mini camper I built a few years back.

Sometimes living alone sucks but one advantage was not getting any crap while building the dinghy in my front room. To her credit Marie never fussed when I built projects in the front room in the winter months.

About a year ago when I started going to the watering hole for a little social hour most days I put forty bucks into a gambling account, I don’t gamble a lot cuz it is generally a losing proposition but I would bet about five bucks a day. For months the amount went up and down some but recently it bounced up to a hundred bucks so I drew sixty bucks out.

Flow over the bullshit.

Bullshit

So called tax free weekend here but not for all things, still had to pay it on the paint and thinner I bought yesterday, and the water timer, the cocksuckers. 

Was at Gene’s at 7:AM yesterday, to put freon in Lonnie’s P/U, then Lonnie treated me to breakfast at the Red Wagon. 

The Redneck dinghy gets moved to the property today. Just need a one man dinghy for some fishing but it will likely handle three or four people, it’s bigger than I imagined it in my mind. Won’t be fishing for a few days, will work on the boat early mornings before it gets hot.

Keep on trucking, and flow over the bullshit.

CUMING ALONG

Decided that being as none of the materials are marine grade anyway that I wouldn’t use expensive glue/sealant, so I just used liquid nails. Today I’ll tack on the front panel and then it goes to the property for painting and the covering.

The covering is going to be a painters canvas I have, will be painted right on to the boat like they did in the old days. Gene said they used to race mini hydroplanes at the lake and they were also canvas covered. I consider it the poor mans fiberglass and it holds up very well. I have a 9X12 foot painters canvas I got at Harbor Freight a few years ago for 15 bucks so it is enough material for the entire outside of the boat.

Going to make a couple removable floorboards for it, I’m not stepping on the ¼” skin, I recall that back when there was a lot of wood boats that they had floorboards in them. I’m not impressed with the ¼” plywood from Home Depot, will never buy it again.

Keep on trucking, and flow over the bullshit.

MAKE OR BUY

Sherry asked if I’m making or buying oars, I’m going to make a kayak type oar but nothing fancy, it won’t take much to move a little redneck dinghy along. I suppose it will be another two weeks or so before it hits the water, I just work on it a bit each day.

Jenny, ever seen a cardboard boat race? Some of them are built pretty good and used for some time, the kids may like that.

Been building things all my life but Gene’s trade is building things and he said that you shouldn’t buy 2X2’s, that you should buy 2X4’s and rip them into 2X2’s as you need them, won’t have as much trouble with twisting and warping that way, I’ll damn sure keep that in mind in the future.

Going to spend more than a hundred bucks, seems like prices go up more each week, two 4X8 panels was over forty bucks and a gallon of oil based paint will be thirty bucks, plus a gallon of thinner. Maybe I should have collected a bunch of free Styrofoam and made a plastic dinghy. Hum, may do that next just for the heck of it.

“It sounds like you are doing a good job.” Cracks me up when folks say things like that, no, I’m just making a lot of fucking noise driving a few hundred nails.

Hooked a nice one yesterday, can tell by the fight, but it broke lose bout half way in.

Keep on trucking, and flow over the bullshit.

Won’t be doing that

I’m not going to put fiberglass on the boat (dingy), I’m likely only going to be using it for a few years. I ended up buying ¼ inch panels instead of thinner panels, won’t add that much extra weight.

I’m using DAP clear flexible sealant instead of some kind of glue, it holds things together just fine and adheres to wet surfaces. And galvanized roofing nails. The seams will be sealed from water entry the way they did them back in the old days, will show you when I get to that point. A dingy made with cheap materials will still last for years if stored upside down and painted when needed.

Lonnie is back in town so will return my mower and pick up his that I fixed for him.

Just one small crappie yesterday, not a keeper.

Keep on trucking, and flow over the bullshit.

Your pictures

Posted here for those fussing they want to see pictures of the boat being built so I can row my redneck pirogue down the bayou. Like I said, nothing fancy and no great craftsmanship, building it as cheap as I can. Next I will buy and start putting the skin on it.

Building it inside the apartment but took the frame outside for the pictures.

Improvise…. Had a buttermilk biscuit mix I wasn’t getting around to turning into biscuits so I used it to make some hotcakes.

Keep on trucking, and flow over the bullshit.

Stay crazy

While the rest of the world goes insane.

Right now I’m wishing I had a belt sander. Maybe I’ll buy one to help the economy. The cheap miter box sure is handy for my project being as I don’t want to bring the table saw over here.

August is the hottest time of summer here, good thing spirit invented air conditioning. Finely used to wearing glasses and don’t hate them anymore. In fact they are pretty handy.

A man from Corpus Christi recently moved here, he said it is getting terrible over there, so many people looking for trouble or starting fights and the watering holes are rough places. I don’t know, just reporting what he said.

Facefuck just overwhelms you with crap and wastes too much of your time and for some reason is addictive.

Keep on trucking, and flow over the bullshit.