boat sliding doors « 1969chriscraftroamer46

BIG NEWS! My pre-splash honey-do list of things that absolutely had to be finished to splash the boat is officially done. I also brought my remaining stash of mahogany lumber, ShopSmith, and table saw home, and removed all electrical lines inside the tent that powered the woodshop. I also removed the compressor piping and hoses, and prepared the refrigerated air drier for transport. I’m cleaning out the tent in preparation for disassembly next week.

The ‘must-do’ punch list is FINALLY blacked out!

No more mahogany lumber or table saw

ShopSmith is gone

Cleaned out a bunch of garbage cluttering up Tent Modell XXX

$25 worth of wasted AlexSeal filler

The Boatamalans sure were a wasteful bunch. I found hundreds of dollars worth of wasted materials that they dropped off the scaffolding and didn’t retrieve: rolls of plastic masking film, rolls of masking tape, boxes of razor blades, numerous buckets containing a quart or more of hardened primer and paint, etc. Never again.

Anyway, I’m still on schedule for probable splash next week. But over the winter and spring I was very busy getting the helm sliding doors installed.

The doors were primed at the tent and finally ready for paint

I took them over to Weaver Boatworks so the doors could be painted in their spray booth. It was late November 2022 and too cold to even think about painting them in the tent.