My new "place of employment" has oodles of yard space, and Brownell's transport fee was a wash with the savings of winter storage fee at the boatyard, so I bought some plans for a Stimson Shed.
A couple of weekends ago I bought an ungodly pile of 1x3 lumber. 10 pounds of 2" screws later, I now have an ungodly pile of broken throwaways, and a nice neat stack of (32) 16' bow frames.
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Today was The Day. No, not Haulout Day, that comes later. Today was the day I put some lumber in the sky. A 35' 2x6 ridge beam is perched 14' above the ground, (supported for now at only three stations).
Working singlehanded made this an interesting evolution. I had only a few hours of the afternoon free, and so had no distinct goal of progress for the day. It was a series of "let's see"s.
Let's see if I can even lift this 35' beam and carry it over there.
Let's see if I can figure a way to stabilize these bows while I set things up.
Let's see what happens when I boost this end up a bit, then that end, then this end, then the middle.....
Let's see if I can find a ladder tall enough...
All culminating in a pretty exhilarating moment when I grabbed a handful of screws and turned around to see the outline of this thing against the sky.
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