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Table of Contents
There may be a better way to make all these posts more easily navigable, but the best I’ve managed is this table of contents which is roughly divided into “building the structure,” “overthinking everything,” “making mistakes,” and “Look, it’s a boat!” That also happens to be the chronology of the project, so that worked out.…
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It’s Been Three Years…
since my last confession. Today the boat escaped the basement at long last. I had to make room for HVAC workers and new HVAC parts. Until today, one thing has led to another, and the rowing project has been sidelined over and over. June 12, 2026. I am amazed: freed from its claustrophobic shipyard, the…
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Launch Day. Week. Month…
I needed to get the Honda prepared to use as a carrier: new battery, wipers, some indicator lights, inspected, registration renewal (only 1,000 days late), new tag, used rear rack for canoes, appropriate ratchet sockets, a 200-mile shakedown cruise to Johnson City and back. All’s fine. It’s good to go (except for that ignition wiring…
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Day 93
Today is the first anniversary of starting this project. One day of project time is just about four calendar days. I really wanted to have the boat “completed but not finished” today and I almost made it. I got dizzy working out the light-bar clamps and tilts to mount the rigger on the vertical member…