So we've had a border living with my wife and I for a while now. He is really never home as he works for 3 weeks at another location, then is home but is really never here. He adds a little bit into the rent for the garage for him to store the vintage car he's working on. The garage is split in 2 so I figured I would use half as there's plenty of room for what he needs in the other half. The amount of shrapnel car parts and tools and random crap I found in there was staggering. I've already been to the dump once with a full truckload, he's brought 2 loads of steel to his work to trade in, and we still need to do probably another 2 loads to the dump to clean just one half of the garage to the point of being a workable area. That being said, it's about cleaned enough now that I can work without it feeling claustrophobic.
After reading the book "The Wood & Canvas Canoe" from cover to cover, I realized that it would probably be to my advantage to build my steambox first. You know, get those things done now that I'll need so that I don't have to stop mid-project to build it. It's a project in itself as I built it 4ft square and 8 feet long. Admittedly it's mostly out of 5/8'' plywood and not exactly the most stunningly beautiful thing in the world, but it will do it's job. I would've liked to build it out of cedar, but to be honest, just to have the smell of cedar steaming did not justify the cost of it. So, I decided I would hang it on a pulley system from the ceiling, keeping it out of the way when it's not in use. Pretty clever huh? Yeah so I'm not the first to do it that way...
Finally, after cleaning up the garage, building my workbench, building and hanging my steambox, and buying an embarrassing amount of tools, I am ready to begin building the form on which my canoe will be built. This, I believe, will be the part that I have to be most careful with, because one wrong measurement or warp in the form and it could totally affect the look and glide of the finished boat. Here goes....
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