Who could turn down a free boat? And since we built a dam and created a small pond about a year ago we now have the perfect place to launch it. Of course the boat was free for a reason. This is no QE2. It is a tiny six foot dingy. Once several holes in the hull were repaired with fibreglass...
...the inside was painted with leftover house paint (to cover up some ugly spray paint tagging) and a new seat was made from a plywood off-cut, which was glued and screwed to the old one...
...and a central support was added to strengthen the broken seat using timber from an old barbecue stand...
....it was then ready for sea trials....
Just don't mention that I managed to tip out of it while showing off to my lovely wife.
I'm not sure where the last three months went but Happy New Year!
Resolutions for 2015:
- Write more blog posts.
- Finish the Entertainment Unit (covered here).
- Build the kitchen.
- Build two Adirondack chairs.
- Restore a second wardrobe.
- Get hand surgery for a 27 year old injury, which will make achieving 1-5 a challenge.
October to December were not completely given over to earning a living. As a Not Christmas Present, I built a 'shoe tower' for Shirley to match the recently restored wardrobe No.1 (covered here).
It's made from plywood and stained to match the antique wardrobe.
And Shirley bought me a Not Christmas Present - a macadamia nut cracker (from Ohiwa Macadamias - a very good quality mechanism), which I mounted on a nice piece of Australian silky oak. (It seemed only fitting as macadamias originally come from Australia and it has a particularly lovely grain).
So we will have to see how the year progresses....
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