Facing the Music (or the Polypropylene)

The music is that we are unlikely to get this done in time to truck her out to the west coast so we can live aboard for the summer this year. Bummer. We will be back in the fall, and will have the winter here to work on what we don't get done now. I suppose the good bit about that is that it will be less of a press! The bad bit is that living in a motor home will be less romantic than living aboard in the marina. Sigh.

Meanwhile, the setback of the tank rebuilding has generated its own set of interesting projects, one of which is the welding of a polyethylene water tank. After looking at everything he could find on the internet, John has built himself a plastic welding nozzle. Currently he is making cardboard templates with which to cut the irregular sides of the new tank. The polyethylene sheets and "rope" for welding them arrived very promptly.