mosquitos, terrible heat, cursing!
Late last night Lynn and I decided to try and put on the starboard trim piece using the tips I saw in the Glen-L fiberglassing HOWTO video. Knowing how much Lynn hates working w/ me made me even more nervous and tense than I would have been working on my own. So, predictably, things went poorly and I reaffirmed all of Lynn’s fear about working w/ me….ah well…
We started working at dusk and the first thing I hadn’t anticipated appeared – a swarm of mosquitos! We don’t see them much around here, so they were a bit of a surprise. Then we discovered that we couldn’t use the same technique as Glen-L’s video as we were drilling into epoxy – requiring a predrill. This meant that we had to switch from countersink to drill bit and back. My hands were covered w/ epoxy putty, the mosquitos were attacking and then I broke off the countersink bit! Then we moved the boat into the garage to escape, only to bring every mosquito into the shop and locking us into the swealtering heat….
I’ll spare you the details – only to say that Lynn was very brave to continue holding the trim while the mosquitos attacked her feet.
Here’s the result, quite pleasing in the end:
Here’s another view, from under the bow, looking up at the trim as it arcs around the hull:
