Most of the weekend was spent moving Amy into her new house. I also moved my boat shop in the storage shed into her garage. So now I have a ton of space and power. Amy’s brother Mike was a huge help in the move. Thanks dude. Originally, I thought I could get all my wood work in the back of my truck and that I’d drive it up to Halifax in July. I was way off, didn’t even get half of it in truck, so hopefully, Amy’s parents will lend me their trailer.
Amy and I basically put my shop back together Saturday afternoon, so on Sunday I got to work on the hatch again. Took me four hours to get the rear molding cut and shaped. Rough cut with the jig saw and then used the spoke shave to get the curve down. But it is on and ready to get cleaned up. Will do the front side molding next week. Was too tired to do anything else.
Thanks for the comments. I do appreciate it. So, I’ll go with the simple binnicle. 
Fine Lumber was closed this Friday so I was not able to purchase the mahogony for the front and back hatch moldings. Damn. Will have to do that this coming weekend. However, Amy and I did get the hatch cleaned up and sanded. We sanded on the deck balcony of her apartment, so her neighbors got to hear the buzz of a couple of sanders most of Sunday. Took about 8 hours even with the orbital and mouse. That little Black and Decker ‘mouse’ sander is just awesome, especially at the ~$40 buck price point.
Notice the mahogony red filters on my mask. Eck.
So great to have batteries again. Got to trim the ends of the slats to the wheel house frame with the battery router, so I didn’t have to load up the truck and find power this weekend. Yay! After that, it was an hour of cut’n and plug’n bungs. Amy on the drill and I on the fill… little glue and a light tap. Other than that, another light week in the shed. Just don’t have that much to do with taking more measurements and saving more money.
Talked with Bryan at YachtSmiths a few days ago, Tesha got the insulation fireproofed and we may be buying the mast tubes in a few weeks.
Still am not hip on the compass binnicle box that I made. It is just too ‘rough and square’ and not nearly shapely enough to look good. I played around in SketchUp and came up with something super simple, but at least it has some curves. I also finally put the wheel house model on the overall Tesha model. Any comments on if I should go with the square box or nix it?
Didn’t accomplish much at all on the boat this week. Amy and I went out to Big Bend to do some canoeing and mountain biking for a few days. I did work a few blocks while there. Not that I need any more, but I had cut so many cheeks when I made them last year that I decided to work up a few more whenever I had some idle time. So, in Fern Canyon, off the Santa Elena Canyon, on the Rio Grande, in Big Bend, I worked a few blocks with a rat tail file. I must be sick.
On another note, Amy rented a new place and with it comes a garage. So, I’ll be moving out of my storage shed and renting her garage. It has power and a toilet…. I am going to miss my tree. Yeah!
