I haven't inflicted my boat-renovation stories on you all for a while now, so here's some more. This past weekend would have been great for sailing (well, OK, it would have been freezing cold and wet and windy, but sailing would still have been better than sitting at home). However, it turns out there is STILL some trouble with the stupid injector in the engine. (There's only one, which doesn't help. I would like to have an engine with more than one cylinder.) So instead I did some work.

I finished putting up shiny brass curtain rods in the forward cabin, so now there's only two rods to go and the whole boat will be matchingly re-curtain-rodded. The last two involve bending as well as drilling the metal so I keep putting it off.

I took off the little fold-out table and the louvred door from the main cabin. The former will be replaced with a new, improved one which I will start making this week or next week. The latter is now in my garage, with half the old varnish sanded off. I'm going to do some decorative carving on it. (I hope. I might end up doing some really ugly amateurish carving on it by mistake.) Also I varnished both the main walls and the bookshelf. They look varnished in the pic on my web site, but that's just the camera flash. They were very dull and faded-looking. Now they're like wooden mirrors. Awesome!

As usual when I try to paint or varnish on a moored boat located near a busy ferry route, I ended up wearing about half the varnish, but I didn't get TOO much of it on the upholstery this time.

Brunnen-"why does varnish look so good on wood, but like dirty purple glue when it's in your hair?"G