Day 6: I'm Feeling You Noah

January 23, 2013

   Mr. Noah, it has been 6 days building, and I already feel your pain. In addition to having to defend your odd little boat to nearly every critic on the planet it seems, it is taking FOREVER to get it done it seems! I just wish I had God telling me what to do rather than sitting and staring at it blankly for an hour, waiting for a solution to come forward. The skeleton is about half up, I was up till 2:30 A.M working on it. It is so weak I have a hard time imagining it working on the sea, but I'm not afraid. Firstly adding the shell will give it SO much more stability, and the internal arrangement will help hold it together.
   So today, I started off messing around a little bit with the design. I think that I have decided to first stitch the hull, then carefully stitch a few key spots to the spine, then let tacks do the rest. My initial worry is that the nails or screws will cause the layers of the plywood to separate. But I think if I get it stitched, glued, and tacked, then slathered in resin before any moister begins to make the layers separate, I should be alright. Resin is expensive, (about $20 a gallon) but I'm hoping that once it is all ready to coat, I will be able to do the whole ship in 2 gallons, maybe 3.
    As expensive as this is, I'm glad I have Ryan as a partner. Our deal with the guys is we will buy and build the boat stuff if they pay for the gas to get us to the coast. Today I have to drive past Home Depot on my way home from the office today where I have my internship, So I think I'll go and buy some more zip ties, maybe the first of many cans of bond-o, and a box of small, long nails. As soon as I can, I'll have a couple pictures up, till then, toodles!