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... $50 on debit card.
Epoxy and fiberglass tape....$70 on debit card.
Safety goggles and earplugs...$ 8 on debit card.
The smile on a young girl's face as she builds her first boat................Priceless.
Construction of the Good Ship Hello Kitty has begun. I may have to push the launch date back, however. I neglected to take 9 year-old attention spans and skill levels into account. You see, she found the scraps more interesting than the boat. I resisted the impulse to call her back to the task at hand. Instead, I let her play with the scraps while I cleaned up to the lines of the planks, and when she requested help with the sign she was making out of the scraps, I stopped what I was doing and helped her. You see, the point of this project is to spend time with my daughter. So far, we had the bottom and sides cut and trimmed, the frames laid out, and the transom cut.
It was several weeks before I could lure her away from her cartoons again and back to the boat. This is HER boat, and SHE is the lead builder. But the planets were finally in alignment, and Kathryn and I went to work on the boat again. We tacked the midsip frame in place,
stitched the bow and transom on,
mixed up the epoxy and filler,
and smeared the epoxy onto the joints.
Although Kathryn wasn't overly enthusiastic at the beginning, she soon got excited because "It's starting to look like a boat, Daddy!"
Alas, progress has been furhter postponed, because SWMBO has commandeered the boat shop for a ``Garage Sale.'' I will post further pictures and progress notes as they become available.
[This message has been edited by bythelake (edited 07-13-2001).]
[This message has been edited by bythelake (edited 07-14-2001).]
Epoxy and fiberglass tape....$70 on debit card.
Safety goggles and earplugs...$ 8 on debit card.
The smile on a young girl's face as she builds her first boat................Priceless.
Construction of the Good Ship Hello Kitty has begun. I may have to push the launch date back, however. I neglected to take 9 year-old attention spans and skill levels into account. You see, she found the scraps more interesting than the boat. I resisted the impulse to call her back to the task at hand. Instead, I let her play with the scraps while I cleaned up to the lines of the planks, and when she requested help with the sign she was making out of the scraps, I stopped what I was doing and helped her. You see, the point of this project is to spend time with my daughter. So far, we had the bottom and sides cut and trimmed, the frames laid out, and the transom cut.
It was several weeks before I could lure her away from her cartoons again and back to the boat. This is HER boat, and SHE is the lead builder. But the planets were finally in alignment, and Kathryn and I went to work on the boat again. We tacked the midsip frame in place,
stitched the bow and transom on,
mixed up the epoxy and filler,
and smeared the epoxy onto the joints.
Although Kathryn wasn't overly enthusiastic at the beginning, she soon got excited because "It's starting to look like a boat, Daddy!"
Alas, progress has been furhter postponed, because SWMBO has commandeered the boat shop for a ``Garage Sale.'' I will post further pictures and progress notes as they become available.
[This message has been edited by bythelake (edited 07-13-2001).]
[This message has been edited by bythelake (edited 07-14-2001).]
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