The garage is shrinking!

…. or….  how to prove you are insane.

First, I’ll rewind to yesterday.  During the past week, dad finished laminating the outside of the bow web, which meant that after a quick grind and touch-up, it was ready to have all the slots cut.  We did this in rather quick order with a hack-saw, dremel and chisel.  No picture of it because I forgot, but here it is being tacked into the starboard hull half.

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With the bow web tacked in place, the only thing that needed to happen on the starboard half was really the aft beam bulkhead…  Since it’s so small and the port half would sit up on boards for a while to line things up anyway, we decided that it wouldn’t be a show stopper and to do things while we had an offer for help. (thanks a million, again, Fred!)

Again, no pictures in progress.  The three of us manipulated the hull half into an opening that it should not have been able to fit in.  We really should have built the strongback even lower than we changed it to, but it’s too late for that now.

We un-hooked the garage door opener and tied it to the ceiling.  Also removed part of a hanging shelf.  After much twisting, turning, scraping and who knows what else, we had success!

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Still need to put some boards between for room to trim the bow, the DB case, etc, etc…

But for now, after a 2.5 hour morning, it’s off for some breakfast!

Time spent: 2.5 hours this morning, an hour last night, and 2 hours during the week