 All right, what do we have here? Yeah, I don't know if we're putting solar panels on there, but we're making the sails Hmm. I totally don't feel like working on the boat right now. I Just want to keep digging. I feel like I need to do something to ease the town trips, so I'm not Not doing a gas motor Yeah, the pedaling is hard The pedaling with the digging every day is what's hard If I wasn't digging every day, it'd be fine Yeah, I need to get some help Or I'd like to get some help I guess I don't need it I've got some bolts like that, and some pipes and stuff I think I'm ready to do something Okay, I thought I have something useless for this too. I think I have enough junk to start. Yeah. Oh Where do I start? I guess I start by getting the boat on the land. Oh, okay. I already did that Now what? Let's do what I know I need to do. I know I need to cut that stuff off Yeah All right, let's just start with that now wait Start by doing some more thinking Then I want to reinforce this down to here. I brought some stuff for that Because there's gonna be a mast up here That's gonna have a bunch of pressure on it And I want a pipe coming down here and one down the other side and that should be That should reinforce that enough to not move This one is gonna take a little more doing and I think I Have something for this I'll cut that off Then put a piece across here and down to the sides And I guess something either down here or up there. I don't know. I'll get these pieces in first Know what else is going on here? I Don't know what to do this part back here yet Hmm, I don't know All right, it's about dismantling stuff like this If that ends up with weird parts That are gonna be good for something I don't know what if it's something Okay, I got some stuff cut off. That was harder than I remember flipping it over. Anyway I wanted to check the bottoms while I have it out because This pontoon I noticed some bubbling I don't know if you'll be able to see it on camera, but Here's some I what I think happened here Is the resin wasn't totally cured because I guess I didn't put enough hardener in And I was hoping that by leaving it out in the sun for a few days. It would be all right But I guess not and I noticed when I was in the water Um, and I was just cleaning off the boat Um Was sticky Shouldn't be sticky And uh, yeah now it's got all these little blisters So I guess I need to sand those off and Maybe go over the whole thing With some fresh resin make sure there's enough hardener in it this time The other pontoon's amazing It's nice and smooth up there great finish Yeah, I don't know I screwed this one up There's nothing that would sink the boat or anything but You know the little blisters will definitely slow things down I'm having something of an issue here This should not be coming off Now I checked all the way at the other end of the pontoon here and it's doing the same thing And chances that I didn't put enough resin in Or enough hardener in the resin over the entire thing is kind of slim I guess it's a possibility. Maybe I did The other possibility is Aliens came and no the other more likely possibility Or equally as likely possibility is that I created this problem five years ago when I originally made the pontoon. This is the original surface here Maybe it's just not that strong and even if this is adhering to it. It can just peel off some of this So I'm not sure what to do here yet One option is to just take off as much of this stuff as I can sand the snot out of this thing Take off as much surface material as I can and then go over it with more resin Like a bunch build it up a little bit I could also put a whole other layer of fiberglass on the bottom here That's going to add weight to one pontoon and not the other seems kind of silly And it's not It's not that it seems like it's going to Sink or anything so Yeah, maybe I just go with option a scrape this off And just try again and hope that I just screwed up the resin here And the stuff under it is okay Of course I could just throw it back in the water and forget about the whole thing All right, let's take care of it Okay More information. It's not coming off up here. And this is still the same resin as this stuff like It gets that off without much difficulty when it gets to about there Yeah, then it doesn't come off anymore. So what's the difference between there and here? All right, jerry figure that out You know, I do have a possible answer It's possible That maybe I just screwed up the initial resin I put over the whole pontoon And I only went up to like here And then when I put over more smoothing layers, I went all the way up to the top now if I screwed like That initial layer of resin I would probably have just put over the whole thing all at once So if I screwed up that batch that would account for The whole thing being a problem because it's down here and it's way over there too And then If after that I went over with smoothing layers and you know ended up smearing up to here with that You know past the screwed up part that would explain why this sticks Hopefully that's what happened because that would mean I could fix it By just getting the gunk off and Putting a good layer on not screwing it up It's like it's a pretty rare thing to happen, you know screwing up the mix, but it is definitely possible to put the resin in there and then Put the hardener in and just accidentally not put enough Or I've even had a few on a few occasions. I've completely forgotten the hardener in which case You know, you just kind of put it out in the sun and wait a week And then hopefully it cures What if I did that? Hmm, that would be a stupid place to do that. I mean everywhere would be a stupid place to do that anyway Another possibility is I just didn't sand this Well enough before I put the resin on Maybe I should just go get my angle grinder and the entire thing I would I would take care of a few of those possibilities Yeah You know if I angle grind enough off I could then put a whole other layer of fiberglass on the outside And it wouldn't add any weight If I angle grind enough off All right got my angle grinder Let's get full battery Got some flappy discs. I got three of them just in case extra battery While I was going to get my angle grinder. I was thinking about the situation and uh I think just taking off a layer on the top should solve The most likely problems There's always a possibility that there's something else I just I'm missing here, but yeah if I take off all the new resin If I screwed up five years ago It would have just been on the surface layer because that's where I added this color everything other than that Should be the same as I always do it But it was I think I think it may have been that powder color I used in the resin Don't ask me what it was. This was years ago I don't think that was good stuff So I'm going to try to take that off. So basically go down to the fiberglass I'm going pretty well I've gone through two batteries so far I've not gotten all that far Oh, this is gonna take me a week because Let's see Okay, if I charge the batteries tomorrow morning Then come out and do some more of the afternoon. Maybe it'll only take a few days I'll just charge them every morning presuming the sun's out All right. See you tomorrow Maybe with three batteries