DavidR8's shop shenanigans

[DavidR8]

.... well, like they say, "boat" is an acronym for "break out another thousand"...... I doubt sail makes it cheaper. Good luck, and hopefully you plan on bringing us along as you bring the old girl up to snuff....

Yes I will but I think I’ll start a different thread.

 

[YYCHM]

Does your boat have an engine?

 

[Dabbler]

Does your boat have an engine?

All boats below 25 feet require a paddle. Even if it is a sailboat, or has a motor. In the straight, it is not good practice to sail without a backup motor. If the tide is contrary, it can save your a**.

 

[DavidR8]

Does your boat have an engine?

Yes, a 7.5 hp four stroke Honda.

 

[DavidR8]

All boats below 25 feet require a paddle. Even if it is a sailboat, or has a motor. In the straight, it is not good practice to sail without a backup motor. If the tide is contrary, it can save your a**.

There’s one passage where in my Crown 34, flat out against the current I could only do 2 kts over the ground. 15 hp Yanmar pushing a 12x8 two blade prop. I definitely wished for more power Scotty that day.

 

[DavidR8]

Made some chips in the new shop
I need to put my wood lathe on a mobile base but because it’s nearly four feet long, any mobile base I found was too short.
But there were handy tapped holes in the bottoms of the cast iron legs. Dug through the scrap pile and found these pre-bent chunks of 1/4 aluminum. They came in a box of materials with all those machines I bought years back.

They were exactly the right height for the casters. Drilled a hole for the bolt to thread into the bottom of the leg and enlarged an existing hole for the caster.

 

[DavidR8]

Last of the cabinets are up.