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Building the SG Night Heron (a bad day 14)
By:Mike and Rikki
Date: 11/2/2003, 10:56 pm
In Response To: Re: Building the SG Night Heron (days 11? and 12?) (Robert N Pruden)

You said it well!

Today we worked on the details and readied things to lay the CF but I had to call a halt when Dave got a little too smart, a little too beligerent, a little too distracted by the football game on the TV in the garage, and a lot too buzzed drinking beer. There's nothing worse then someone not 100% focused on the task at hand, and too dismissive of the fine points of laying composites. Alcohol and many many things do not go together!

Being the anal type who wants to see a perfect yak, today I installed 1/2 dowels cut to fit the stations areas for after laying the CF, then sanded the hull interior. I started working on the deck beveling when I found myself doing all the work and not getting the fine points of the bevel process across, this was then followed by the CF. For those of you who drewam of a roll of CF, I left Dave snagging it on the gunwales. It's going to be an expensive lesson for him on the evils of alcohol and building, but an important one on safety in the workplace. Better to snag the hell out of some CF then saw a finger off or fall off a ladder, or smear one's self in epoxy.

For those of you worried about the Night Heron, I left the hull secure and the deck parts stowed safely away. More later

: More like this Mike: "you can't be anal and "slap" together a
: beautiful boat in ten days". Either she's built right (20 days) or
: she isn't and you're having nightmares about what you shouldda done the
: first time. Your instinct to do it right has saved you many nights of
: tossing and turning because of a dream in which a flaming horned figure is
: pricking his trident at your brain for NOT beveling the panels exactly.
: You guys are doing an amazing thing, none-the-less, Dude.

: Robert N Pruden

Messages In This Thread

S&G: Mike's Mad Dash
ChrisO -- 11/1/2003, 12:57 am
Building the SG Night Heron (days 11? and 12?)
Mike and Rikki -- 11/1/2003, 2:10 pm
Re: Building the SG Night Heron (days 11? and 12?)
Robert N Pruden -- 11/1/2003, 8:48 pm
Building the SG Night Heron (a bad day 14)
Mike and Rikki -- 11/2/2003, 10:56 pm
Re: Building the SG Night Heron (a bad day 14)
Robert N Pruden -- 11/2/2003, 11:06 pm
Re: Building the SG Night Heron (a bad day 14)
Mike and Rikki -- 11/3/2003, 1:06 am
Re: Building the SG Night Heron (days 11? and 12?)
Mike and Rikki -- 11/2/2003, 12:01 pm
Re: Building the SG Night Heron (days 11? and 12?)
Bob Kelim -- 11/1/2003, 3:28 pm