What's new? Well the fun has started. I'm playing a different role than when I was a kid. Back in the day, my brothers and I had this down to a science. Pack a lunch, get gas, and go cause time is a wasting. Now sharing the ride with little girls and a wife that don't have boating experience does tend to slow me down. That's OK.
In time I'll get to the before and afters of the restoration. I'm still dealing with some issues left over from the "Walter Brown Experience". Walter is a great guy, and I learned alot from him, both good and bad. This has certainly been educational, but I pay'd dearly for a mistake that I thought I took the necessary measures to prevent. Lesson learned... unless you share the same goal, hiring help is risky. My goal was reasonable perfection at a fair cost. His goal was work fast in moments of slow business. Unfortunately this means taking short cuts, rough work, and still takes longer than it should. Live and learn. The next boat project I'll save money buying all the tools I need that don't already have, and doing all work myself. Tragically, I will have to one day tear this one down again to fix a cosmetic flaw that I just can't accept, and otherwise built to last forever.
