one job at a time...

Adventures with Ag-Gag, an eye opening read, and a great interview with Neil Innes...

Part of what makes working on boats crazy making is it's so damn easy to get sucked into an ever-expanding spiral of inter-related projects till you reach a point where stasis ensues and no matter what you do nothing gets finished.

As it happens, that would be where I happen to be right now...

The decision to lose the inboard motor (we'll call that project #1) spawned a reworking of the old engine space (project #2), and as we're rebuilding stuff in the main cabin a rework of the galley (project #3) and a new dinette (project #4)...

Still with me?

Since we no longer have an inboard, we picked up a 6HP outboard which needed some sort of cunning plan to hang it on the transom without all the negatives associated with such madness which incurred my cutting a big honking hole in the transom (project #5) which required a re-design of our self steering gear (project #6) but since I also have a new rudder on the list previous to all of this why not move the rudder to the stern as twin rudders with an integrated self-steering gear as part of the mix (projects #7-10).

Of course, since it's a boat, we have a newish deck leak that needs attention (repair #1), four portlights that need replacing/rebedding (repair #2) not to mention the stanchions and just the usual day to day stuff that comes up...

Oh yeah, I've also got to paint my dinghy!

So, all of a sudden I'm in stasis mode because nothing that needs doing gets done because something else needs doing but that can't be done till something else gets done that needs something that needs to be shipped down or some such.

If you have a boat this should all make a kind of perverted sense.

The trick is never to get involved in a series of inter-related projects and confine yourself to one doable project at a time. Truth is, it's a rule I try to follow but sometimes stuff just gets away from you and the snowball gets rolling downhill and madness ensues.

Listening to Patty Griffin

So it goes...