EBB's PHOTO GALLERY THREAD

[ebb]

THANKS BILL,
Didn't need posting yet, BUT, the upside-down hinge looks pretty good.
And sure is an example of "form follows function." (backwards piano
hinge artistically considered)
Those are #10-24 flathead 1/2" MS with tiny skinny washers and nyloc
crown nuts. Hinge is less than a 1/16" thick - dapped-into the surface of
the composite.
The material is 1/4" meranti with a layer of epoxy and s-glass on both
sides - like 5/16" thick. The phenolic philippine ply is quite stiff - but
adding the fiberglass changes it into another material entirely.

Forinstance the top, with of course the captured hinge to help stiffen it,
has little give to it as a unsuppopted table top, yet it's essentially a lid.
Size overall: 36x32. Frame is 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 Honduras, all corners rounded.
No idea how to finish it yet. Like wood color, also like space, so it may
end up cloud white.
The cloth is cut and laid on dry, epoxy squeegeed on quite firmly. Pull
all the extra syrup in or off the weave. Finished surface is 'textured' and
requires little prep to float on a smooth epoxy coat..


DON'T TABLES HAVE LEGS?
It'll probably have a body thrown across it, knowing me, at least twice.
So, went home with measurements of the 10" tall cubby under the table,
thinking that a wide strongarm construct might project out for support.

It's too complicated, too much construct and even with angled braces
to the hull, table just too big. Also the 3 cubbies would be trashed.
They support the 'shelf' that the table end will bolt to. There's all that
time it took to get it right along that side. So I went thru amazon's
tedious algorithmic money-sucking stalker looking for … a pedestal..

It takes hours. The search constantly leads you astray. When you stop
to take a look, they make a game to keep specifications hard to find,
or secret. Just down the page they line up other kinds of stanchions
to lead you further away from your focus, and to box you in with dozens
of oriental imitations you never thought you didn't want.

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THIS WEEK : SPAULDING IS BACK TO WORK

[ebb]

Mast back in boat, with new additions working around my "inventions'
that are not appreciated because they are outside normalcy. Ebb
insisting to Carol Hasse that a cutter bowsprit was desired.. now have
light weight Trogear V sprit extending 3' forward.. requiring at the
masthead a strange extension, by an unknown to me yacht-designer,
as a standin for the usual bail.. looks like a horn.. not my style!

and while I was informed "the mast was going in sometime this week"
wasn't informed that it went in the next day, without my being there.

The business with the mast is to get it ready for measuring for sails.
Covvid, wildfire smoke, closures and general malaise has taken to
the middle of September to happen. Now the just arrived Schaefer
1100 furler
gets rigged and I wonder if the old man will get to be invited to that
event..?? Says it's a 42lb addition to the pleasure of sailing, all the
long stuff came in a gigantic tube weighing 65lbs, I cldn't lift it!

My disenfranchisement from the Spaulding Boat Works guest docket
now seems de rigueur. (I think because I let the varnish go, really
needs help!) And equally I seem to have been disinvited from the
Alberg Fleet virtual Sunday zobreakfasts, socially defective, that's
another story I'll drop entirely, always om been a loner for various dna
psycho-pop demeanors. Do I mean tremors? Even tho I've yearned
these golden years for just easy comraderie, laffter and respect,
I've become a tired bad old grouch. !@#$%^&! (it's 4am..)

Photos to come. Which I hope Bill will post.

..
[Now the third week of Oct. Waiting on halyards. I have line,
nobody asks for it.. will be paying for line that will take a week to ship.
West Marine is 5 minutes down the street in Marin City. How can I
be involved in this charade??. This is professionalism on a stick..]

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[frank durant]

Good.....no...Great.....no.....totally awesome to hear from ya!!

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