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as of the making of this video, there are 84 man hours in Fas N 8.
Patrick -------------------------------------->
putting the family to work!
1/30/2008.
1/26/2008.
I suppose it would be good to let you know where the name for the boat came from.
I had just finished an expedition Kayak, that was my own design, that had taken quite a lot of my time. When I announced to My wife my intention to start on another boat that was even bigger I could see that this was causing some resistance. I had watched her eyeing a really pretty expensive sweeter with 10 pearl buttons the other day at the Mall.
So I decided to go ahead and get it for her as an it will be all right to build a boat gift.
She was delighted with the gift but when she tried to button it up her boobs were so big she could only fasten 8.
Patrick
I like the word "gumption" because it's so homely and so forlorn and so out of style it looks as if it needs a friend and isn't likely to reject anyone who comes along. It's an old scottish word, once used a lot by pioneers, but like "kin," seems to have all but dropped out of use. I like it also because it describes exactly what happens to someone who connects with Quality. He gets filled with gumption.
The greeks called it enthousiasmos, the root of "enthusiasm," which means literally "filled with theos." or God or Quality. see how that fits?
A person filled with gumption doesn't sit around dissipating and stewing about things.
He's at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what's up the track and meeting it when it comes. That's gumption.
. . . . The gumption-filling process occurs when one is quiet long enough to see and hear and feel the real universe, not just one's own stale opinions about it. But its nothing exotic. That's why I like the word.
You see it often in people who return from long, quiet fishing trips. Often they're a little defensive about having put so much time to "no account' because there's no intellectual justification for what they've been doing. But the returned fisherman usually has a peculiar abundance of gumption, usually for the same things he was sick to death of a few weeks before. He hasn't been wasting time. It's only our limited cultural viewpoint that makes it seem so.
If you're going to repair a motorcycle, an adequate supply of gumption is the first and most important tool. If you haven't got that you might as well gather up all the other tools and put them away, because they won't do you any good.
Gumption is the psychic gasoline that keeps the whole thing going. If you haven't got it there's no way the motorcycle can possibly be fixed. But if you have got it and know how to keep it there's absolutely no way in the whole world that the motorcycle can keep from getting fixed. It's bound to happen. Therefore the thing that must be monitored at all times and preserved before anything else is gumption. . . . ..
Throughout the process of fixing the machine things always come up, low quality things, from a busted knuckle to an accidentally ruined "irreplaceable" assembly. These drain off gumption, destroy enthusiasm and leave you so discouraged you want to forget the whole business. I call these things "gumption traps."
There are hundreds of different kinds of gumption traps, maybe thousands, maybe millions. I have no way of knowing how many I don't know. I know it seems as though I've stumbled onto every kind of gumption trap imaginable. What keeps me from thinking I've hit them all is that with every job I discover more. Motorcycle maintenance gets frustrating. Angering. Infuriating. that's what makes it interesting. . . .
From -Robert M. Pirsig's
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Chapt. 26
This all rings such a bell of truth for me as I build this boat. Patrick
the fit
screwed, glued, and tattooed!
skin complete
recently hired, project manager
CAPT BILLY
HOURS TO THIS COMPLETION POINT:
PATRICK 104 1/2 HOURS
CAPT BILLY 30 minutes
I would like to take a moment and explain a little break in the action of my boat project. My dad passed away March 10th. He would have been 92 April 19th. He will surely be missed by myself and family. I consulted him many times about my boat project and he was very sharp mentally to the very end of his physical life. Here is a cheer that goes up to you, dad, I love you! Pat
attaching the skeg!
Let the fiberglass work begin! 4/3/08
one layer of woven roven.
then covered with 10 ounce cloth.
Woodie helping Pat with the Woven Roven Cloth
Gabriel helping Pat with
the 10 oz 2nd layer.
4/20/08
Pat applying micro ballons and epoxy fill
4/21/08
Now for the fun part of grinding the hull!
Wish I had timed this for the wonderful weather of Florida winter! 4/24/08
BOY, IS THIS HOT WORK!
booboo or as my granddaughters say "ouchiewawa"
man hours to this point:
total............146
Woodie..........5 1/2
Gabe..............3
Captain Billie...5 minutes(too much drinking and womenizing,
he"s been docked a hundred hours)
Pat in his bunny suit
$1682.......spent to date.....4/24/08
three coats of underbody.....
sanding between each..........
getting ready for the final bottom color............5/10/08 thru 5/28/08.
Getting ready for the boat flipping party within two weeks! Stay tuned!
sanding fill
re-coat
OH NO! I am not sure if capt Billy is such a bad influence on Pat, or if this is just a bad case of over exposure to fumes?................................JoAnn
5/30/08 All final bottom coats finished. Color: San Mateo Wheat
preparing the hull for the
roll over party.
Two by four crate assembly.
06/01/08 thru 06/04/08
three final top coats of mothane paint
