 wanted to get a shot of this guy because I'm thinking of painting my boat with his pattern that's coming out on the camera. I got all the crap ground off the outside of this and then I immediately put some resin on it so that today I could hopefully sand it. Yeah I made sure I put lots of hardener in, I mean not more than it should be. Yeah. Alright where do I start here? I guess I can start by getting off all the little dirt globs, not dirt globs but like you know chunky bits that ended up in here because I had not entirely smooth resin. There were some chunks. Yeah let's come off pretty easy. Got all the major nubs sanded off and now it's raining. Not a lot, just enough to get everything moist. I'm hoping this blows over pretty soon. Ah son of a, no I'm fine I'm not gonna get this done today. I decided after I got all the real rust bits off I decided I didn't want to sand anymore. I wanted to try just spackling. I think I've got a pretty good surface on here. A few bits of dirt I'll sand off but other than that it's looking pretty good. I don't think I need to sand this. It's not perfect but it's close enough to forego the sand. Now sanding is pretty horrible so it's very easy to convince me not to sand it. Yeah this looks good. Definitely not perfect but not bad. I'll take it. All right it's the next day now I really need to decide do I sand or do I just go with spackle surface and I think I just leave spackle surface. It's pretty good. If I start sanding I'm gonna lose that glossy surface. I'll get I'll get a little bit smoother overall but I'll lose the gloss so I think I'm just gonna wax it and call it done. Upgrading my seat while I'm waiting for the wax to dry. All right next to reinforce this area. I could probably handle the pressure of sails just as it is. I like to have some don't have to worry about it. That'll keep this thing from moving that way or that way. Put one on the other side too. I'm about 90% sure those will not interfere with the cover here. Oh and I think I can test my chair now. I leaned this against it while I was hardening just to give it a bit of a curve that way so it have strength that wouldn't curve that way when I sit in it. Hopefully I'd rather curve that way. Oh that's nice. Oh that's a good amount of flexibility. I kind of leaned back. I hope that doesn't break. That kind of break. Oh yeah! Nice work. Yeah I think this is good. Oh you know what my chair goes on that side. Whatever they're both the same. Put it on the side with the steering. I have two of these things that came from something else. I think they go right there. Did it trim in and grin in? Good. Oh I like it. Yeah good stuff. Alright now that middle box there should not be moving anywhere. I need to reinforce this guy. Or should I do the sail connectors up there? I don't know. Eat some lunch. I brought some lunch with me. Got this silly thing stuck up here. Well hypothetically be the pivot point of the sail thing. That will also be roughly the lowest height that it goes down to. Because the mast would come back through here and then up above that the sail would curve down and end up being even with the mast at the bottom. So I need that to be like roughly eye level so I can still see out the side where it comes down and then where it's up in the middle I can see through no problem. And then also when the sail's up that'll be the bottom and I'll still be able to see under. Yeah. I think right there. Yeah. Right there. I was thinking if I fiberglass the sides of whatever this thing is and then fiberglass it to this thing somehow. I don't know how you. Then I can cut the middle out and then I'll have two big hinge points that are lined up for each other. And I have a steel pipe stainless steel pipe that fits through that. And that can be the hinge pin. Oh yeah sounds pretty good. So fiberglass around this and then connect it to this somehow. Alright. Man I'm getting full sun blue skies all day so I'm taking a quick trip back home to plug some stuff in. Alright plug stuff in got a charged walkie-talkie administered hugs and kisses stole a snack and I'm out of here. Resin those in and as long as they don't move before it cures you'll be able to go over this with a bunch of fiberglass and make it really strong. If I'm lucky I might be able to fiberglass those in today. Sun's getting low. Yes! Got it. Oh I'm just about out of sun. Clean up and get out of here. If I can get this much productivity tomorrow I should have the front thing done. Might even be able to start painting. That looks like the new propeller but has nothing to do with propulsion.