A LITTLE BIT OF CATCH-UP
The HARDEAILS have been installed on litlgull (who's varnish I've abandoned
and the boat looks horrible. Just went back a year in my inbox and found
a couple great photos by Mike Klass of Tom Heering's rendition of one side of
the rails.
The pushpit really is two three-legged curved corners with the center open.
The stanchions here have bases that bolt thru the deck.
All sheer stanchions now have welded 4 bolt vertical bases and moved off
the deck to the toe-rail bulwark. Chris at Spaulding insisted on full bronze
matching square plates for the exposed outside. Less bling when they green
over with benign neglect .
It would be most appropriate if the comfortable looking shop at White Water
Marine where Mike took a couple of first photos of Tom's masterpiece were
right here in these pages.
Getting rid of the wishbone bowsprit has caused a cascade of problems how
to support the anchor roller far enough forward and the Facnor tube bowsprit
likewise extended forward of the stem fitting. My intuition is out of
commission. The Facnor has to come from France (via Tunisia). Only UPS
can squire foreign purchases thru the morass of foreign boundaries. Haven't
even seen it yet
The old Pulpit forward legs are taking up too much real-estate. Have a mockup
of the a.roller and it needs wiggle room to point chain and line down the aisle,
because the idiot skipper put a Bomar hatch in the front deck (into the
forepeak.) Keep smacking into unfortunate good ideas I had.. Have no-one
to humor me, I mean to fling ideas around with. I'm now in the old man box.
No back patting, when folks reach out it's under my arms they reach for,
looks like FredFeeble needs help keeping upright.. Probably does.
Tom Heering's rails are incredibly gorgeous, right up where craft becomes art..
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