Squaring Up
Squaring up the starboard hull.
This photo shows the starboard hull backbone, lined up on a zero mark (the blue tape), and blocked in place along a reference wire stretched along the floor. The lower bulkheads have been “welded” in place using a high-strength filleting compound of epoxy, glass micro-spheres, and colloidal silica (the white substance at the intersection of bulkhead and backbone.)
We also just got approval from Kickstarter to run a project to provide funding for lab-testing of some of the new technology we’re using on the boat, and to bootstrap our educational programs. More on that soon!
Aside from the occasional guilty feeling of personal laziness, I’m really enjoying these posts.Report
This. I like living vicariously through David, but there is this constant sad reminder that I have a relatively hard time getting motivated to simply clean my garage.Report
It’s funny. I’m singing in two bands, writing a dissertation, blogging, and teaching my own new course, and still I think, “Well, it’s not like I’m building a boat!”Report
Oy. I’m on the lazy-ass far end of the people lamenting they’re lazy thread.Report
Rufus, Tod,
You may remember back in Part 2 of my Thermomixed Up series this quote from Megan McArdle:
There is, of course, the joy of acquisition. And why give that short shrift? The high may be temporary, but the same is true of climbing a mountain. Why valorize one over the other?
And this one from Part 1:
One of the running themes of the economist Robin Hanson’s excellent blog is that arguments like the ones found in these books are actually an elite-status proxy war. They denigrate the one measure of high-visibility achievement—income—that public intellectuals don’t do very well on. Reading “Shiny Objects,” you get the feeling that he is onto something.
And this quote from Reihan Salam in my Sarong… post:
“[W]e are in a sense living through a cultural war in which some who’ve chosen, say, more leisure and prestige are waging a symbolic struggle against those who’ve chosen more income — the object is to devalue the accumulation of material possessions, to characterize it as “greedy,”…
This build is the longest time that I’ve had a regular schedule in my entire life since high school; 8AM till 4PM or later, Monday through Friday.
One of the unexpected benefits of having a regular schedule is that I don’t waste nearly as much time or emotional energy worrying about whether or not I’m spending my non-building time productively. If I want to watch TV, I watch TV. If I want to write blog posts, I write blog posts. No wondering if I should be doing something else.
The other benefit, and one I’ve long known about, is that working on boats (or mowing the lawn) leaves a lot of room for thinking about things while you work. While we work, we talk about “stuff” or even just doing repetitive work and ruminating.
So far that’s taken me through Greed, Envy, and now Sloth. No doubt Pride will soon make an appearance.Report
Just be sure to do a post when you get to Lust.Report