Tuesday 6 December I started off on my own again this morning figuring out how to make a template for the cox’x seat extension. The most obvious solution was already at hand in the form of the seat we had already made. The template in 3mm MDF only needed to extrapolate its dimensions forward to…
Monday 5 Dec I had a quiet time in the shed this morning which is what I needed to figure out how I was going to support an extended cox’s seat in boat 2. This modification seems necessary after sitting on the coxes seat for a couple of hours getting a sore back in St…
Thursday 1 December Denmark Mobile Welding needed our boat on its trailer to measure up for the trolley which they were building today. I dropped it around there before we started at the shed. Paul W joined me in the shed and started by painting the deck paint on the footrests and the cox’s floorboard….
Tuesday 29 November Blogs are getting shorter I’m afraid. I was on my own in the shed today which is just as well because I had forgotten to organise a lifting crew to turn the boat over so we can start on the inside. I stripped the masking tape gently off the boat to reveal…
Mon 29 November Another great rowing session on Sunday morning. Starting at 7am, three crews took to the water. This morning Mark cycled in just after I had opened the shed. I had decided that it was necessary to put a third coat of opal white on boat 2 and started by giving it a…
Thursday 24 November Yesterday we had a record three sessions rowing St John on the Denmark River and Inlet. Today Lesley was already in the shed when I arrived. She had brought a box full of goodies for morning tea. We discussed how the twilight row had gone and how there should be a written…
Tuesday 22 November Summer weather two days in a row, wow! And more to follow tomorrow. In the shed early today and I started by fitting my prototype footrest. It needed a bit of planing of the corners to get it to slot into the cross beam and slide back into place. Harry watched and…
Monday 21 November On Saturday I made a trip to the Anaconda shop in Albany, not a place I’ve been to before. It’s a camping and fishing store. Thanks to a very generous donation from John and Kerrie Davies I was able to buy 10 inflatable personal flotation devices (PFDs) for our rowers to use….
Thursday 17th November Beautiful warm weather yesterday for the last of Sally Ward’s instruction rows on St John. Thank you again Sally. The opportunity for a row proved popular and two shifts went out onto the inlet in the morning while I took my own boat out of the water for some much needed TLC….
Tuesday 16 November Sally Ward, our Scottish celebrity from the boat launch who brought the Scotch to toast the new boat, was at the shed before me this morning. We were joined by Lesley and set about giving yesterday’s paint a light sand. That was finished fairly quickly and we went straight into painting the…
Monday 14th November The rowing at the weekend in St John was a great success with Sally Ward again on hand to offer advice and guidance. Lesley enthused about the calming effect of rhythmically rowing across the water. Paul wants to help standardise the commands the coxes use. The boat was beautifully cleaned out by…
Thursday 10 November We have had a couple of well deserved days off and have gone back to the old routine of working on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. On Monday I did come in briefly when I was returning the PA system to the Denmark Community Resource Centre and leads to the High School. I…
Saturday 5 November What a day! Thank you to all those who came and made this a memorable occasion.
Friday 4 November I was quite relaxed in the knowledge that just about everything was ready for the launch of St John and the display of boat 2. Adrian had beaten me to the shed as I had dropped a tow rope I use to launch my boat, off to JP who was launching his…
Thursday 3 November I went around town putting up the Launch Day flyer in shops and cafes to add to the publicity we have already got in the local papers and on the radio. It will be interesting to see how many people come along to the launch. In the shed I started by taping…