Project Log: Thursday, January 1, 2015
And so begins another year which, inevitably, suggests a
time of reflection on the year just past.
I made a lot of progress on the boat in 2014, wrapping
up the exterior paint work--finally--which allowed me to
at last move on to closing in (weatherproofing) the boat
with her ports and windows, and installing new hatches
and deck hardware, and some long-postponed work to
rebuild the head compartment and other critical areas.
Review: last year's punch list as of 1/11/14
Still, much had changed since the beginning of the
project in 2010. Our plans for the boat were less
definite than at the onset of the project, and as a
result I continually reassessed and reworked the final
to-do list to reflect changing requirements and to
simplify the jobs. This also required me to
re-evaluate what I was pushing for back in May 2014, and
why. The net result was that I stepped away from
the idea of launching and trials, and enjoyed other
pursuits for the several months of summer.
Frankly, this was a great relief.
With enhanced clarity of vision, and a renewed eagerness
to complete the project once and for all, I got back
into the swing of things in the fall, and focused on
wrapping up all the final bits of trim work and details
required to edge the project through that final,
time-consuming 5%. By year's end, I'd made good
and satisfying inroads to the list, working steadily but
at a much more pleasant pace that kept the job fun.
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