Spindrift Progress (or lack thereof)

[Tom Lathrop]

I use a home built styrofoam box with a hole in the removeable top to fit the small SOLO brand plastic cups. In summer, I put water and ice cubes it the box to keep epoxy cool. In winter, my shop is warm enough that I don't have to resort to drastic measures if the epoxy is fairly warm to start. I think some warm water in the box would work fine in winter.

I used to have a small bar refrigerator left over from my son's college days that I used to keep left over batches of mixed epoxy in the freezer until I needed them. Saves a lot of mixing time and waste. This is especially good when there are a lot of small gluing jobs to be done in one day. Hurricane Dennis got the fridge 1999 and I got another from a garage sale and used the first with a 40W bulb in it to warm the epoxy in winter time. Hurricane Isabel got the second one this year and I found another smaller bar fridge. Rust got so bad that I canned both earlier fridges and built a wood box under the workbench which works just as well with the light bulb.

Life goes on.

Tom

[Steve Day]

Oyster,

York is about 90 to 100 miles west of Omaha on I-80, depending on what part of Omaha you're going to. When we go to the airport to fly out of there, we generally can make it in about 1:45 from the house in York.

If you look at a map of Nebraska, York is about 1/2 way between Lincoln and Grand Island. Incidently, we are almost exactly halfway between Chicago and Denver, too.

There is not a lot of water around here to float a big boat - that's one of the main reasons we keep the Beneteau on Mobile Bay.

How far are you from Norfolk, VA?

Steve

[Guest]

From downtown Norfolk on an average day, it takes me 3 hours, 45 minutes, to four hours if I go in the middle of the day. I can go to Virginia Beach in the same time, a different way. The Navy base is another 20 minutes. The Coast Guard main base is across the river. I go up there a little easier because of the new Hwy 664 I think it is. I got a possible trip to Bayou Le Batre Al. this up and coming month.

[Steve Day]

Oyster,

We're on our way to Guantanamo Bay this month and will be passing through Norfolk. Looks like you're a bit too far for me to sneak down on the way through.

We keep the Beneteau on the east shore of Mobile Bay in Point Clear, AL at the Marriott Hotel marina. I don't know where BayouLe Batre is, unfortunately.

Maybe next time,

Steve

[Guest]

Bayou Le Batre is directly across from you on the bay. I will take this offline, as it doesn't apply to this board's workings here.