 All right, what to cover my boat roof with? I think I've decided. I think I'm gonna use four sheets of this four by 10 smooth aluminum plate. It's two millimeters thick. It doesn't have the diamond texture on it, which I would have liked. However, it will fit all the way across without a seam. And I want to coat the top, paint it with something. So it'll be nice that these ones are covered with this plastic garbage. So what I'm thinking is, I take four of these sheets, put them on there, then pull the plastic garbage off, and then paint them as soon as possible before they start oxidizing. And I'm thinking I will use this stuff, epoxy chemical resistant, or epoxy chemical resistant. This is the part. Securing part, this is the other part. Right, I've had these for a while, component A, component B, right, okay. I'm just gonna mix a little bit of these together to make sure, you know, it's still in functional condition. You'll clear it. Hey, stay back. I don't want to just get on you. This has not been mixed in quite some time. Yeah, I mean, not a long time, but it definitely needs to be mixed up. The epoxy is supposed to last a long time when it's stored though, so there's a good chance it'll be good if I just mix this part up. The other part looked like it was okay. That's not wet. Yeah, once I get it all mixed up, it'll be white. That smells really bad. It does smell really bad. You guys should back up. I'm just gonna do it. Yeah, no, back up, back up, back up, back up, back up, back up, back up, back up, back up, back up, back up, more, up, good. That's more like what it's supposed to look like. Should be the same amount of each one. Hey, dry time to the touches three hours, re-coat four hours, cure seven days. So if I wanna put more than one coat, I have to put one coat on, wait four hours and then they can put another coat on. So I guess we have to leave this sitting here for like three hours before we can really see if it's hardening. This is gonna be a pretty time-sensitive operation. I need to get four sheets of metal on the roof with enough rivets to hold them in place. Then I need to pull all the plastic off them, roll epoxy over the whole thing and then I'm not sure how thick it's gonna go on. I'm gonna maybe presume I need to do two coats and maybe after the first coat I'll sprinkle some sand. Then four hours later I can do a new coat. So I should be able to do all that in one day. I'm definitely gonna need a nice, sunny, totally not raining day and then preferably not rain for the next couple days, at least a day. Six rivets in that one. Next. Okay, operation is mix two parts epoxy in this container which I think will not melt from the epoxy. Then go up here, go to the fourth, the last sheet, pull off the blue plastic, take my sandpaper, rough it up real quick, pour epoxy on, then roll it all over. Then take some sand which is right there, throw a few handfuls on the epoxy, move to the next one. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Right, okay. Well, you can put that in the bottom. All right. Still have blue skies, no rain in sight, good thing. I did test this epoxy yesterday and it appears to have hardened today. It takes according to the can and it did seem to do it this way. Takes three hours before you can touch it without it sticking to you, four hours before it's solid enough to recote. And it wasn't really kind of solid until this morning and I did it yesterday. And it takes seven days for full cure. So I'm gonna have to not go on the roof for a full week. All right. Now up to the roof, calm, quick and precise. That went amazingly smoothly. Nice. What's that? Yeah, you can come on the boat right now. So now in a few hours, I wanna come back and go over this whole thing and hopefully stick down all that sand. I mean, it's pretty stuck now, but yeah, just go over it all. And I have plenty of epoxy I used. These may be half of what I have on this. A little bit less than half. And this epoxy I got for $10 a gallon. I got a few gallons a few years ago from a guy who was done with some big project and getting rid of it. Stuff's, wow, stuff's really expensive if you buy it, new, not from just some guy. Oh, it's great, it's not, look at that. Oh, it's not even too hot now. I think the epoxy is helping already, just having the white color. Oh, great, let's put a fingerprint up there. There is another thing I wanna do in here. I need to grab these floorboards down there. Oh yeah, I need all kinds of floorboards and stuff. Now with the roof, I wanna put some caulking above all these pipes to fill in all the little spaces like that. Because when I curved these, you know, I did it by hand, so they're not perfect. So I figure if I run a bead of caulk along each one of these, it'll fill in any spaces like right there is a space. Right there, it doesn't need it, but you know, yeah, fill in all the little spaces. On all the ones where there are seams, there's actually epoxy coming through. So that's gonna fill in the space. So maybe I need to check if silicone caulking, which is what I have. I bought it last time I was in town. If silicone caulking will interfere with the epoxy at all if they'll mess each other up. I can definitely do the ones where there's no seam. I don't know, maybe I'll just do it anyway and see if it's probably gonna be fine. It's only been an hour. This is already pretty solid. I bet I could go over it right now. Yeah. Probably just because the heat made it cure faster, I'm guessing. Problem is I just put the caulking under here and along all of those. And I don't wanna stand on it until this stuff is totally solid. And I hear a two year old yelling, Jamie washed my bomb, so I better go do that. All right, I wanna apply more epoxy to the entire roof without actually standing on it this time. Nothing to stand on over here. I could stand on that boat. It's 10 feet across, three meters. So if I'm on the edge, I should be able to reach the middle. If I, you know, reach. You know what, I think I have an idea. I totally have an idea. I have a thing, a thing over there that I can stick in the boat. Oh, it's not gonna fit over here because this thing's in the way. All right, maybe if I just stick a ladder sticking out and I can stand on the end of that. You know what, maybe I can just King Kong off the side. Yeah, I can reach that. I can reach it. I'll just have to monkey bar along the side here. And from there I can reach. All right, I can reach everything. I think of all the stuff I've built here. Possibly the most important is the thing that I have that sprays water. It's, you know, where I get my water out of. Water comes out of the water tank and comes out of a kind of like a hose nozzle and squirts out. So whenever I have to wash a kid's bum I just hold her bum there and turn it on and like fire hose it off. That's it. Okay. Right now, my oldest daughter is cooking lunch, cooking some plantains. And I got Captain America over here. Let's get that roof-free pan. Oh, was that the most elegant procedure I've ever done? Hanging off the side of the boat. I'm near the mess, but got it done. Okay, that's, whew. Now hopefully it doesn't rain in the next few hours. Looks like it probably won't. Weather usually comes from that way. Hopefully it rains tonight though. It hasn't rained in a while. We could definitely use some. Whoa, what a cool boat. I mean, this was a cool boat before. Oh, the really cool boat. Ooh, plantains and cheese. Thanks to whoever sent me this cheese. Thanks, man.