Saturday, August 30, 2008

Hurricane Readiness


So instead of sitting out on route 90 with the cats in a box, we're staying put in New Iberia. There is an evacuation order for New Iberia, but we'll see about that!

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Boat has roof!



Most of one, anyway. The welding should be done this week. Just in time for hurricane season!

Saturday, August 9, 2008

week # 561 of the experience


As you can see we continue to frequent various local jam sessions of cajun music. The folks are real friendly and it's pure heaven for someone like me who loves fiddles and accordions and plaintive howling. Joyce quietly sits there and steals their spirits.

The yard took my two guys again to work on another boat, so I went ahead and continued without them with the help of a Lao welder named Sayfon (ci-phone) and we did quite well putting in the framing for the roof plates. John and Randy should be back next week.

We finally got our engine, we had to drive down to Cut Off, Louisiana to personally lay hands on it, so to speak. It's an in frame rebuilt that seems to run well that we got for the price of a core, so I have my fingers crossed. Worse case scenario I send it off to a shop and have it cherried out for another 6k and I still got a great deal.

Joyce is getting ready to fly up to RI. to see family, I stay here with the cats and the boat.

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Saturday, August 2, 2008

Boat has windows



so we're getting the cabin walls up and immediately cut the windows out as the temp jumped up 20 degrees. Next week we hope to get the roof on and then we should be able to bake bread. Things are starting to move along a little which cheers me up, this is turning out to be a lot more work than I expected, much like building a house, which I swore I would never do again. As usual, the engine is coming early next week, monday or tuesday, it's been coming now for 6 weeks, but they say they ran it and it "runs real good" and it is just down the road an hour or so. The engine room isn't ready yet to install it, but I need it in front of me to take exact measurements to get things lined up perfectly to hook it up. The deck over the hold is down, it's 2 by 10's in wood which lets me pull it up easily to get in and do stuff. And on it goes, it is a lot of fun and every one enjoys working on it.