Evanston: disorderly conduct
Evanston: disorderly conduct
I am giving my back and respiratory system the day off.
I seriously misjudged how long it would take to sand varnish from the small amount of wood on GANNET. When I stand in the companionway, the deck is not much above waist level. If these aren’t the smallest bulkheads in the world, they are close. So why is this taking so long?
I used the power sander on Saturday and Sunday for a total of six or seven hours, resulting in the above depressing mess, and I guess I’m only about 2/3s through.
I’ve worn a face mask most of the time, but still have breathed in some dust.
Of my back, GANNET now has her own bottle of Ibuprofen.
The only wood on the boat that isn’t in the photo, which was taken from on deck through the companionway, is a partial bulkhead directly below the camera that supports the forward end of the cockpit and deck but does not go all the way down to the bilge, and where the closest visible facing pieces curve up to the overhead. The two floorboards also extend out of the photo and are about three feet long overall.
The piece out of sight below the camera has been sanded, as has the wood on the port side of the picture and the forward side of the main bulkhead The pieces to starboard, the floorboards, and the 18” square battery compartment cover seen just forward of the main bulkhead, beneath the empty ice tea jug and other clutter, have not.
Armed with twenty more sheets of sandpaper and renewed resolve, I may venture north again tomorrow.
The Deks Olje is on track to be delivered Wednesday.
You can also see in the photo the pipes for the quarterberths and the track for the forward bolt rope for the starboard berth. I’ll remove it to sand, as I already have removed the one to port. There is a similar, much longer track pop riveted directly to the side of the hull for the bolt rope on the outboard side of the berths.
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Odd how often a recently learned word or name or place, something you’ve never known before, again comes to your attention.
Tom Waits has been a round a long time, but I had never heard of him until we watched THE TIGER AND THE SNOW a week ago.
Yesterday in DILLINGER IN HOLLYWOOD, a collection of interesting short stories by John Sayles, the writer/director of THE SECRET OF ROAN INISH, I came across, “Her voice is on the rough side of Melissa Etheridge, heading fast for Tom Waits-ville.”
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Friends in Australia tell me that the ash cloud from the Chilean volcano has crossed the Tasman and is spreading over Australia.
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The Decorah eaglets are due to fledge this week or next.
Monday, June 13, 2011