"Finishing Touches"

On June 29th we leave for Burgeo. I put together my maps on a 500m scale. I printed them off on legal size paper from my Blue Charts from Map Source and had them all laminated. 32 in all.

Once around the apple tree James and home for...... I just wanted to illustrate the length of our paddle at a 500m map scale that's about   (----------------)  this long on the actual map. Shot from my deck. With my lawn chair saw horses. Heee Haaw! THese are the 32 maps from above.

A most important finishing touch is this label. Not just any label. This is one of our club boat labels that we put on our kayaks for identification purposes. Very handy should you become seperated from your boat on shore or in water. It makes identification of owner simple which is extremely important in a rescue situation when rescuers come upon and empty and usually overturned boat. I have mine behind my seat with a thin coat of resin over it. Another sunny day achievement. lol

Beef Jerky is in the dehydrater, GORP has to be bagged, final food purchases have to be collected then I should be ready.

"Alleluia, Alleluia!! Nordkapp Owners"

This is a paint can lid remover. It cost me $7.49, I think they saw me coming.

This is a Nordkapp hatch cover remover and re sealer. It simply is the cat's meow of a Nordkapp owner's gadgetry. Save your finger nails in the winter and all season long let me tell ya!

This thing works like a charm. The inventor is Will Forsberg. You all probably know about it and I am just finding out. You taper the end so as to have somewhat of a point to seal the hatch cover back on. I tried it today and it works like snot. Clyde turned us on to this a few weeks back. Same time I dinged my hull.lol

Cut view after a bit of filing and sanding.

I posted yesterday about an untidy shed. That bothered me.lol. Now it's tidy. I like tidy!

More space for more gadgetry perhaps.

"Putting That Pump Away!"

My Little work shed. Cluttered but I know where everything is.

Does that count!

Need another sunny day for spring cleaning.

Todays project was designated for hull repair but since I had the fiberglass out I decided to finally put that pump on the hull of my boat . Homemade toggles and all.

Might as well add an under deck water bottle holder. I am trying to organise

my deck for our paddle from Rose Blanche to Burgeo at months end.

Secure and tidy. That mission accomplished. Sometimes you just have to spend time

if not in the shed....near it.

I may have mentioned this in another post but when I work on my boat I use two lawn chairs as "saw horses". Works like a charm and you can adjust them accordingly. That's the way it is when your shed won't fit your 18 foot boat. I like sunny days.

"Maintenance"

Putting my boat back together after a bit of TLC. Re-gooped the bulk heads, took out the old seat that projected above the coaming and stuck in a Wildwasser back-band, and attempted to put in some foam padding on thigh braces to replace stuff i took out, but on this occasion thought I'd go "Green" . So I bought this expensive contact cement that was well pretty much useless as you can see by the shims. It just wouldn't set, even after five hours. I therefore bought some cheap and probably not environmentally friendly stuff and voila, worked like a charm! 15 minutes snug as a bug. My f/g boat needs way less maintenance, but still TLC.