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| A Work in Progress |
Rome wasn't built in a day.
-- Old saying
LUTRA Update: Building Blues and Bloom
There are two things I yammer on about:
- Small is beautiful. - E.F. Schumacher
- Curves and angles add to building time and effort. - Me
Yeesh. I should listen to myself.
We're just rounding the one year mark on what we'd estimated to be a four month project. Six months if the stars mis-aligned.
A winter build - now approaching another? - interrupted work with deep-freezing spells and general hypothermia, leaving us staring stupidly at simple tasks. Weather - exceptionally cool/cold and wet stretched from that winter, through spring to latish July, bringing mildew in its train. A series of guests (whom we thoroughly enjoyed) brought a warm spell that ended promptly with their last departure. Back to hypothermia. Our short-handed community has needs with few to step up. Our own life has chores that can't be indefinitely deferred.
It adds up to a blues riff.
But one step in front of the other. The structure is complete and we're building and tacking on gear (hatches, tabernacles, bow rollers, cleats, rails, rudder/tiller, etc.). In a week or two - barring further issues - we'll start the simple interior, then windows, then launch. we're hoping for 2025.
So we persist. We dream of returning to life at large among the islands.
We bloom.
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| It's a challenge taking photos from point blank! |
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| Rowing Cockpit from Forward Longitudinal Seat/Lockers between Self-Bailing Decks Main Tabernacle at Main Bulkhead |
Longitudinal seat lockers to Leanbank/Fo'c'stle Hatch
Fore and Main Tabernacles visible
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