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On the pus side, the new fridge looks great! I’d say go cruising, that little dimple will keep til later. :)

It’s a diesel tank Rich, it’s a day tank because that’s about all the fuel it holds and usually they are plumbed into the main fuel tank with a pump so that it can be easily refueled with the day’s...

That’s why it’s slow incremental progress Mike. :)

That particular wire run is going to be relocated now that it is easy to get into that corner, instead of going across the middle where the hooks...

I made some slow incremental progress today on a detail I’ve been thinking about for a while. The day tank for the cook stove has always struck me as a bit of an eyesore.

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nothing really...

Nice score on the dinghy Chris.

You’re way neater out of the gate than I am Ron. Looks good!

I didn’t know that, that’s interesting. Thanks for sharing.

That was a nice surprise, I had completely missed that until I went looking for the email. Thanks Tracey!

Thanks Chris, I hope you and your family are out enjoying summer on the water!

Once again ready for the water.

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and even in the water.

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And the catches us up.
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After the deck edge was trimmed up a layer of dynel finished it off.

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And a couple coats of paint to pretty it up.

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Then we left town for a couple weeks, which stopped our...

Thanks guys! Ned, you have me wondering about just how many trips we’ve taken now. I’ll have to go count them out from our log book. It might be kind of fun to know.

They have grown right up Gareth.

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I’m glad to hear that Bill, knowing that folks are getting some enjoyment from this rather long saga helps me keep the motivation to carry on the story.

The old ply and glass stopped right at the edge of the cabin top, which seems like a good way encourage water intrusion. This time I let the ply over hang the cabin so that I could add a drip rail...

Hi everyone, I hope your summers, or winters are off to a good start. It’s been busy here, we got Amazon in the water yesterday the bilge pump down to only cycling every twenty four minutes or so...

Very nice Ned!

I think I’m about four weeks out, which is later than I’d like, but I can live with it. The cabin top is a necessity but replacing those cubbies with something that actually works well is the project...

There are couple projects that need doing Ned. :)

one on the outside.
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and one on the inside.
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That’s a lot of corners Ned! I just started to get serious about my pre launch projects today too and I’m kind of wondering what the heck I was thinking! :)

Thanks Dave. Our compass is a box compass.

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old school enough?

Could be you’re right Gareth. The button I got didn’t make a difference. I think there is a bit on electronics in the switch module that is needed to make it all work. So I gave up on eliminating the...

Hi Ned and Garrett, good to to see you guys!

That’s a lovely dash Ned.

My new switch will be here Saturday, so we’ll know soon enough Garrett.

That’s a neat bit of work mating those chunks of lead together. Nice job!

Thanks guys! Those clusters look good Martin. Everyone is good here Hugh, just pining away for spring! :)

Part of what I want to do with this project is replace the power, start, and stop buttons with a key switch and buttons more in keeping with the boat. This is turning out to be a little more...

Hi Hugh! I’ve gone a slightly more conservative route.

Many unnecessary holes later,

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and a lot of filing later, the gauges fit pretty good.

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Hi everyone, I hope you all are doing well. I’ve been working on a little gauge project and thought it might be fun to share it here.

So here is the rough and ready gauge installation I did when I...

I’m actually thinking about putting doors on it once the rest of the top is up Chris. It’s definitely a step up from prior iterations.

Hi everyone, it’s been a while. After leaving Amazon in the harbor over the winter last year, I decided that it would be better for the boat to be hauled out instead of repeating that again this...

I can relate to that affliction. :)

We’re hogging all the cold, wet, and windy weather up here Chris. This was the end the season week up here too. Amazon is on stands next to the house as of Monday and I’ll be building a new shelter...

It looks pretty good really. It’s probably a good thing that it’s in your town and not mine. :)

Yay, nice to see that things are back on track!

When my dad first saw it he said, oh good you went with traditional colors.

His dad went with red and yellow on the kids dingy too. Don’t want to lose track of them. :)

We swapped out dinghies on Amazon today.

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I think that’s going to work just fine.

A boat where they didn’t figure out how to extend the stem past the plank ends.

That boat was tied up across from Amazon when they stopped in Juneau. I didn’t realize they ran up all the way from Seattle on solar power, that’s pretty cool. It’s a neat boat, it’s pretty small...

Thanks Chris, I was hoping to have the super guppy on Amazon and out cruising this week but we are under small craft advisory through the end of the week. Oh well, maybe next weekend.

Well I guess I’ll wrap this up. Final weight ended up being 85 pounds. Apparently paint, oar locks and those floors really added up. But that’s still not too bad and the floors and stringers added a...

We were going to take off in Amazon for a week this morning too. Today looks good but there is a a big front coming in and everywhere we could go will be four footers through Wednesday. So we’re...

I would use dynel cloth instead of glass. It lays around corners better, has a nicer texture for what your thinking about, and is nicer to work with. I did just what you are proposing on Amazon’s...

This is a big job! Thanks for bringing us along.

We’ll probably all be switching to biodiesel here one of these days.

That’s what I was thinking too. Sounds like the mizzen overpowering the rudder.

Glad you liked it Steven.

I added a couple stringers to the bottom.

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and a floor and post in the center under the seat.

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It was 80’ degrees here Sunday. That water probably felt great. I know it did at TwinLakes.

Congratulations on getting your new boat out on the water.

That could probably be arranged if someone really wanted them Chris.

Here’s a little movie.


https://youtu.be/bVeilxNFVFw

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