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  1. I Got to Work on ALL Three Boats Today! ? It felt like winter again today… 30’s… snowflakes… ?. But, I cut and fit my my last plywood piece for my ski-boat build: the starboard front deck: (Ski-boat build blog:) I spent some time with Avocet, finishing the two mast cradles. Where I’m parking this boat this summer the mast needs to be up and “sail-ready.” With two cradles, I can have the main mast up (for proper appearance) and the mizzen mast horizontal in the cradles over which I can place a rain-guard tarp: (I’ll likely get a longer tarp for more protection.) For fun, I then tried raising the front of the horizontal mast using the main halyard. Didn’t take a photo… but the mizzen was angled up from the stern to bow. I wanted to see if a tent-tarp could be thrown over the angled mizzen mast for camping. Nah… didn’t like it. Then I remembered that the guy from whom I bought the boat last year was already playing around with designing a tent-tarp and he had tossed into the cabin his experimental inexpensive trial tarp. I got it out and tried to figure how what he had designed so far. He had installed some strap eyes along the top. HEY!! Nice!! Using halyards, the tarp could be hoisted something like this: I could likely fit a longer tarp… providing more cover… maybe foot or two all the way to (or past) the mizzen mast. Plus, perhaps the aft end of the main sprit could be hoisted with the mizzen halyard (maybe with the mainsail tied up to the sprit?) to provide a ridge over which a tarp could hang down to be tied to the strap eyes. I could move the strap eyes on the top of the coaming tank to the top of the yellow rubrail, preventing a little sitting surprise to someone trying to hike out on the coaming tank for balance. ? On to the Norma T to finish my sleeping platform. I started this project last year and intend to place a small tent onto the platform and side seats… plenty of room. (A photo of this is at the top of this page.) So, from my last piece of plywood that I bought for my ski-boat, I cut a single piece to fit on top of the honeycomb support I made last year to make a large platform: I then cut it longitudinally into three long pieces. After a couple coats of epoxy, I will use a “tape-hinge” to allow me to fold the platform. I think I’ll start with duct tape and see if it’s enough. With the large platform folded in three and the honeycomb pieces disassembled it all nicely fits in the skinny section of the front cockpit, between the centerboard trunk and the seat. I’m really pleased with how everything turned out today. If the weather is good tomorrow (it’ll be sunny, hopefully warmer) I’ll start getting coats of epoxy onto the ski-boat deck underside and the sleeping platform pieces. I just got a weather report indicating record lows for tomorrow morning. Luckily, I bought a large enough propane heater for my ski-boat build. ? Warm summer IS coming. And, I’m looking forward to trying out my two new boats, exploring lots of lakes and river systems, and trying some overnights and camp-cruising.
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