November, December, The Demon Boat, Etc...

If I still have any readers after what has been, even for me, an extended break: YOU WILL REMEMBER THE BAYLINER SAGA. That little floating piece of junk, while giving a whole new meaning to the phrase 'Small Craft Warning', occupied quite a lot of my time these last two months; the end result is something of which I am quite proud. Therefore, I'm gonna make you look at some pictures of it.

Special thanks to Father-in-law Marion and Brother-in-law Josh for their invaluable help with the approximately forty-eight million staples it took to reupholster the entire interior, including those damned curved (what Marion calls 'Kerfed') sideboards...



Another hearty 'Well-Done' to the folks at Rancho Marine Recycling in Rancho Cordova, California, for the bad-ass service and can-do attitude. They had the EXACT SAME boat in their junkyard, and went out of their way to sell me the impossible-to-find port and starboard glass. This was to replace a) the starboard window that got broken last winter when water puddled on my crap boat cover and caved it in, and b) the OTHER window, which had been replaced with Plexiglass in some Pre-Cambrian era before I became the damned thing's daddy, and had bugged me since the first day I brought it home.