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Re: WesT hit the nail on the head
By:Mike McCrea
Date: 5/17/2001, 9:05 am
In Response To: WesT hit the nail on the head (Dan Ruff)

Wes also wrote "one of the joys of building was just sitting back and looking at the boat as it came together".

I probably spend 1/4 of my shop time admiring my work. Granted, I'm not completly inert while doing this...I'm thinking about the next step, putting tools away, thinking about the next step, cleaning the workbenches/floor, sitting at my desk drinking a beer while thinking about the next step, running my hand along the hull feeling for high spots,

I detest feeling that I have some artifically imposed "deadline" to meet on boatworking projects. I WILL screw something up if I try to rush. I have.

"Forgive me hull for I have rushed, I shall now spend twice as long sanding my mistakes away just to get back to where I started"

I'm a firm belieever in going slowly and deliberately, thoroughly thinking throug a step before starting, doing the best prep job I can as I start a new step and taking the time to learn as I go along.

Done with some sense of leisure boat work is a pleasure...done with a sense of a looming deadline it is just another damn chore.

Messages In This Thread

Do I have enough time...
Kirk_n_AZ -- 5/16/2001, 12:27 am
Well. Have you started yet? :) *NM*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 5/17/2001, 3:50 am
Re: Do I have enough time...
Lisa S -- 5/16/2001, 11:08 pm
Re: Do I have enough time...
Angela Watson -- 5/16/2001, 9:05 pm
Re: Do I have enough time...
Shawn Baker -- 5/17/2001, 10:43 am
Re: Amen! Amen!
Don Beale -- 5/17/2001, 11:28 am
Re: That's what we did
Grant Goltz -- 5/19/2001, 8:17 pm
Re: TV Bah Humbug!
Shawn Baker -- 5/17/2001, 12:15 pm
Something else totaly O.T.
Hafte -- 5/18/2001, 3:37 pm
Re: AM Radio
Don Beale -- 5/18/2001, 11:47 am
AM Radio - RED SOX!!! *NM*
Chris Menard -- 5/21/2001, 8:19 am
Re: AM Radio
Arthur -- 5/18/2001, 4:52 pm
Re: AM Radio
Shawn Baker -- 5/18/2001, 12:24 pm
What's TV????
Angela Watson -- 5/17/2001, 1:43 pm
Re: What's TV???? O.T.
Rehd -- 5/17/2001, 3:15 pm
Re: What's TV????
Bill Price -- 5/17/2001, 2:05 pm
Re: We're in trouble
Shawn Baker -- 5/17/2001, 3:46 pm
Re: We're in trouble
Chris Menard -- 5/18/2001, 10:04 am
Re: We're in trouble
Rehd -- 5/17/2001, 4:35 pm
Books on Tape - While You Work *NM*
Dan Ruff -- 5/17/2001, 12:30 pm
Re: Amen! Amen!
Rehd -- 5/17/2001, 12:01 pm
Do any of us?
Jim Pace -- 5/16/2001, 8:05 pm
Re: Amen to that! *NM*
Shawn Baker -- 5/17/2001, 10:37 am
Re: Do I have enough time...
Chip Sandresky -- 5/16/2001, 4:27 pm
Re: Do I have enough time...
Byron -- 5/16/2001, 2:09 pm
Re: Do I have enough time...
Ken Sutherland -- 5/16/2001, 1:54 pm
Re: Do I have enough time...
Scott Fitzgerrell -- 5/16/2001, 12:49 pm
WesT hit the nail on the head
Dan Ruff -- 5/16/2001, 11:41 am
Re: WesT hit the nail on the head
Greg Hughes -- 5/17/2001, 12:14 pm
Re: WesT hit the nail on the head
Mike McCrea -- 5/17/2001, 9:05 am
Re: Time enough
WesT -- 5/16/2001, 9:24 am
Re: Do I have enough time...
Greg Hicks -- 5/16/2001, 7:58 am
Start now and you will have plenty of time
Paul G. Jacobson -- 5/16/2001, 2:43 am
Re: Probably :)
Rehd -- 5/16/2001, 2:24 am
yes!!!!!.
sage -- 5/16/2001, 1:46 am
Re: Do I have enough time...
Don Beale -- 5/16/2001, 12:44 am