 All right boat, I think you're getting a floor Now the width gets a little bit wider as it goes up here I Could just cut the skinniest size and that would fit everywhere But I think I'll just custom fit all the boards so they all fit nicely And maybe put numbers on them so I know which way to go or whatever This is the strongest board or at least that's what it feels like to me So I'll use that one as the first board and I'll find another strong one to put at the other end Because the the ones between are gonna rest on each other. I'll get to that in a little bit All right, let's cut this guy This isn't the strongest wood, but it is very light Which is why I wanted it for a boat. The wood is laurel or laurel I'm still learning about you know, American woods, but I've been told that this is pretty light actually it's very light It's it's pretty strong, and it has good weather resistance. This is a little more flexible than I want it to be It's not bad, but I went into my pile and picked out the thickest board So I'm gonna do the rest of this with the thicker boards. I think these ones are fine here like one board will hold me up And they're gonna be linked together and if I'm if I have anything heavy I'm putting in the boat I'm gonna put it back there anyway, so I'll just leave these ones These are all cut by chainsaw so there's a fair amount of variation. So here's two thinner ones There's a bunch of thicker ones Back here much All right now I want to link all the boards together So when you put way down one it puts the weight on all the boards and this board doesn't quite fit But I think they're still gonna shrink a little bit. I bet this one's gonna fit in a few days So I screw and glue a block onto this board and it's upside down right now It'll be flipped over like that and this is gonna end up going under the board next to it Now I'm going to put longer ones Under every board alternated like this so they can slip under each other And then any time you step on one board It's gonna rest on the the piece that's attached to the next board and that way it'll spread the weight out So here's the first one right here, and then this one's offset So that it'll be able to go under and they won't hit each other I am relying heavily on glue because I don't have that many screws at the moment stainless screws at least And they're nicely. Yeah, I know that they're locked together Let's do that the whole way down. I'm not gonna put too much pressure on it right now. Obviously I'll wait till the glue dries So why don't I just take one board and glue it right along the whole bottom? Well, it's because then the floor is all one piece and if I want to take it off That's gonna be huge pain in the butt. This way I can take off individual boards If I want to save weight for something or if I need to replace a board or whatever It's it's much easier to deal with everything Well, that is significant and stiffer now nice all right Before I rip any of those screws out I'll get off it and let the glue dry But now I want to paint it Jamie, why would you paint the beautiful wood? Well, it's a working boat and I I need to I need performance more than they need Beauty although paint can be beautiful on its own way. Anyway, I Just want to paint the tops to keep rain and sun off the wood That'll make the wood last a lot longer and also it'll keep the wood from soaking up a bunch of rain Getting heavy and weighing down the book the boat when I'm not even carrying anything Oh, and the red is oil paint. That means it's gonna take like three days to dry or a week Oh, I could probably use it after three days. Well, I Guess that means I'm gonna have to take all the boards off paint them Go back to use my temporary boards for a few days or a week or whatever and then I can get my real floor Oh, that's gonna be the hardest part of the whole thing. I don't even get to use it right away Give those a few days and I'll get them on there and in the meantime I'll just have to stick with my temporary boards. Oh, I can't wait to get that in place So why am I only painting the tops and not the bottoms? Well If you paint all the way around a piece of wood it makes moisture harder to get in it makes it harder for moisture to get in But then it also makes it harder for moisture to get out so any water that gets in is trapped This way, you know, it's protected from rain. The rain will come off down the sides But any moisture that does get in the wood will still be able to evaporate out the bottom in the sides Now I'm wondering if I should put two coats on this I guess I should it will protect it better. All right, all right All right, that should be good nice and red. All right, Bo just be patient for a few days And I really like how that map came out in a couple days. I think that's ready Well, I better get a shot of it now It's never gonna stay this clean five of us just went to the store and back It's about a 10 kilometer round trip. So it's like an hour ish, you know plus however long we spend at the store So one person sits here in pedals one person sits over there in pedals Little kid at least well the littlest kid who can't swim stays inside the box And then anyone else goes in the front and the front takes all the cargo stuff. I Gotta say I really am enjoying this boat. It's a it's a good mix of performance and comfort like not ergonomic excellence and Comfort doesn't matter when you go on, you know, sometimes eight-hour long round trips I'm really happy with this Now I gotta think about those solar sails But to do the solar sails I'm gonna need a few days of Dry weather and it's been raining off and on so I'm not in any rush though The solar panels won't be here for a couple months and the motor won't be so I have some time Also, I was originally gonna keep this boat out of the water But it looks like that's not gonna happen because it's I've been parking it right here So I have been wiping off the bottom like every day every other day So as long as I keep doing that it should stay nice and clean and smooth on the bottom. Hey choppers. What's that? That's a saw