I'll get it started with one from my drone.

I have the fleet ready for use whenever that may be. I'm hoping to at least get the boat in the water when they lift the launch closures

Beautiful day... people out and about and a barge coming in for a load of cement. 

 

My back yard , last summer. Hoping to get it looking like this in another month. Been fucking cold here.

5 hours ago, steve from amherst said:

My back yard , last summer. Hoping to get it looking like this in another month. Been fucking cold here.

Looks good.   

 

Weather has sucked. It might snow again. I haven't even taken the boat out to get it ready, it has sucked so bad. 

River valley fog out my back door.

8 hours ago, Polaris 550 said:

Looks good.   

 

Weather has sucked. It might snow again. I haven't even taken the boat out to get it ready, it has sucked so bad. 

All of April has been like march weather. right at freezing every morning and some days not even breaking 45, blows.

13 minutes ago, steve from amherst said:

All of April has been like march weather. right at freezing every morning and some days not even breaking 45, blows.

Welcome to my world,  lol.

45 minutes ago, steve from amherst said:

All of April has been like march weather. right at freezing every morning and some days not even breaking 45, blows.

I hear you, I think we got more snow in April than we did in January. 

Here's the wife's latest project I'm helping her with.A friend gave us 2 old oars so I cut them down and she put the vinyl on the one sofar. I took a piece of wood and did a cutout and it's not quite finished yet and she sold it already. I'm gonna start looking for old oars and also doing them out of blank wood. 

1 hour ago, smokin george said:

Here's the wife's latest project I'm helping her with.A friend gave us 2 old oars so I cut them down and she put the vinyl on the one sofar. I took a piece of wood and did a cutout and it's not quite finished yet and she sold it already. I'm gonna start looking for old oars and also doing them out of blank wood. 

 

 

Hey, George, one of my paddles that I keep in the boat has a lot of the shellac/finish coming off. I brought it home in the fall as a winter project but never got around to. Your post reminded me of that.  Just curious, after I get all the old/peeling stuff off of it, what should I use to refinish/stain it? It is not daily use paddle, just one of the required ones that I keep in the boat. Is regular shellac/stain all that is required or is there something more special that should be applied? 

18 minutes ago, irv said:

Hey, George, one of my paddles that I keep in the boat has a lot of the shellac/finish coming off. I brought it home in the fall as a winter project but never got around to. Your post reminded me of that.  Just curious, after I get all the old/peeling stuff off of it, what should I use to refinish/stain it? It is not daily use paddle, just one of the required ones that I keep in the boat. Is regular shellac/stain all that is required or is there something more special that should be applied? 

You can use a good outdoor varathane or urethane and put a few coats on it. If it's gonna be in sight and you want it to pop get some bartop epoxy. This one I'm doing for our friends where I dock my boat. Once I strip it and the wife does the vinyl I'm gonna epoxy it. 

Edited April 25, 20205 yr by smokin george

14 minutes ago, smokin george said:

You can use a good outdoor varathane or urethane and put a few coats on it. If it's gonna be in sight and you want it to pop get some bartop epoxy. This one I'm doing for our friends where I dock my boat. Once I strip it and the wife does the vinyl I'm gonna epoxy it. 

 

Thanks George. 

This paddle just stays in my side locker and is just there for those in case I need it emergencies. Normally it is there year round as I normally don't take them out of the boat, even during storage.

I'm pretty sure my wife has Varathane or Urethane somewhere.

Enjoy your day. 

Be prepared....

Hit the State Park today...nice to see a lot of people enjoying the nice day.

 

The original iron ore line built in Northern MN from the iron range to Lake Superior in 1884. That's lake superior in the background. Snapped this pic while walking the dog this morning.

Baddest speedboat on the planet hanging out at the trailer park marina. Pretty cool. 
 

 

Edited April 26, 20205 yr by AKIQPilot

Had to go to Wally to get Dad's fucking donuts (kidding, they are my mom's fav and I would do anything to make sure she has 'em) and finally saw it. Knew this day would come... just had to wait for it.

11 minutes ago, Snake said:

Had to go to Wally to get Dad's fucking donuts (kidding, they are my mom's fav and I would do anything to make sure she has 'em) and finally saw it. Knew this day would come... just had to wait for it.

Is that guy in a gas mask or something. 

2 minutes ago, AKIQPilot said:

Is that guy in a gas mask or something. 

That is a model M17 gas mask.

Edited April 26, 20205 yr by Snake

3 hours ago, AKIQPilot said:

Baddest speedboat on the planet hanging out at the trailer park marina. Pretty cool. 
 

 

Obviously, you haven,t seen or heard of a speedboat called MYWAY, from our neck of the woods. It had a world speed record in it,s class of around 225 MPH. It is equipped with 2 helicopter jet engines, and is the fastest boat by far in any of the North America poker runs it enters. The acceleration is incredible, and so is the sound, as it flys by all the other boats. The owners name is Bill Tomlinson.  Use google, and check it out.