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Jim June 30th, 2007

Well folks, I think I had mentioned that my goal was to have the boat on the water by the first week in July. Unfortunately, it looks like we’re going to miss that deadline by several weeks. The reason? Mismanagement.

My sister, Pam, has been bugging me to write about her contribution to the boat project. So here it is, in total: Two Saturdays ago, Pam appointed herself “supervisor” of the boat project, and then promptly fell asleep in a chair not far from where I was working on the boat. She did wake up briefly, and was able to successfully measure out the location for the screws in the sheer strake, but then decided that this type of work was far too hands-on for someone from the managerial class like herself. So, now the boat is behind schedule. It is amazing that a project, which was only briefly managed, can suffer so badly at the hands of mismangement. Such is life, I suppose.

Pam, the mismanager, with a few of her direct reports.

But instead of focusing on our failures, let’s talk about successes. I finished the planking on the boat and installed the deadwood. My dad (ever ready with a pun) pointed out that the whole boat was made of dead wood, so this step might have been a bit redundant. I then put two coats of epoxy moisture barrier over the whole hull. This all happened within a week of my graduation to full-time boat builder, so as of a week ago, the boat looked like this:

Of course, the epoxy coating ran in spots, and I had to sand those out. However, I was then able to flip the boat over and get working on the interior. I’ve installed the foredeck framing and the rubrail. I still need to put in the daggerboard case, sheer clamp, deck, and seat planks plus clean up the whole interior:

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