Boat Restoration Adventures

Rain, rain, go away and more secret designs

Since yesterdays post was so long, I thought I’d take the time today to do a mini-update. Given the verbosity of my writing, this may end up being another ‘war and peace’ style epic, but we’ll see how it goes!

The pain and frustration of naming a boat (or rescuing one from the pound)

”A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”.

— William Shakespeare.

All the things I don’t know about boats

This is part rant, part story, so bare with me as I take you on an adventure that only I can.

If you’re new to the saga, please I recommend you go back to the first post and see why all this is happening — this is a crucial link to…

A tale of two rivets.. a horror story

Once upon a time there lived a little rivet named Steely Dave.

Steely Dave was a hardy little thing and often showed off his strength to all the other rivets in the box.

Today I learned..

Well, it’s the holidays and that means plenty of time to work on the BRB! My plans today were to begin sanding the top section of the hull so that I could do the primer in the next day or two.

Top secret design ideas

It’s midnight and I should be sleeping, but instead I’m looking at pictures of boats.

Zoe and I have been madly googling trying to figure out what the BRB (Big Red Boat) could look like. I feel that it’s super important in these early stages to have an idea of…

Day 1 – Removing lichen and mould

I spent a good week or so trying to find out the best way to remove lichen from a boat.

Here’s what I had to contend with.