"I'd give you everything I got, for a little piece of mind..."
- John Lennon
Ya know, it's hard... work always seems to get in the way of life...and then when 'life happens', you want nothing more than to crawl away and die... I have felt this way for a few weeks now with work, and added to the stress of being half-owner of 2 large machines (boats) and the enormous steaming pile of bullshit that has gone along with it, I almost feel like my head is going to pop off at the neck, and leave my brain, nervous system, and eyes in place on my body so I can feel, see, and think about the pain that it is causing... I am feeling truly positive...
Anywho...with that said...
Both boats are in John's driveway now...sitting there, all alone with no one to play with but each other. Mainly because I work too much and John..well, he works too much, too. I got home an hour ago - it's now 1am - and I have to be back at work at 9:30am...
"I'm so tired...I'm feeling so upset....Although I'm so tired, I'll have another cigarette..."
The boat shit has been really interesting... the yellow boat, well, it's now mostly blue...the Yellow paint was put on REALLY bad, and when we started power washing it, the paint started coming off in strips - so basically, the boat will now be blue cause A) it looks better, B) we can make the blue shine WAY better than the yellow ever did...
I'll post a pic of it soon...show you all the progress
We also have totally de-barnacled the boat. Man, THAT sucked... I guess this guy didn't put a fresh coat of antifouling paint on there anytime recently, cause it was COVERED COMPLETELY in barnacles. But, a power washer and a plastic putty knife got them all off. Now just needs a light sanding and some fresh paint and will look great under there...
However, I don't think we are going to do much with the cuddy cabin besides paint it... It won't cost much to line it with fresh carpet (maybe $150) but who knows, we'll see...we just need to get it in a nicer condition cosmetically, cause mechanically its solid - most of the lights work, a couple of gauge lights aren't lit, but whatever. Gonna clean up the teak swim platform as best as possible, as well as the doors leading to the cabin...then it shall look really nice, and we should be good to go...
The other boat - holy crap its a MONSTER out of the water - really is VERY clean on the bottom, to our surprise. The hull is in almost impeccable shape, 'cept for the normal shit that happens when a boat is 23 years old...
And get this...we just bought a complete motor for it for $1500 including shipping... its only got 10-20 hours on it, and runs AMAZING (saw the video...should be here sometime next week) and basically is a drop in, dieect replacement for what we have...so we should be good to go then - at least if we wanted to take it out...which I don't think we'll do, cause that would be silly to fill up the gas tank to go out for one day, then winterize...but whatever... we'll see.
"I can't sleep, I cant stop my brain, you know its 3 weeks...I'm GOING INSANE!!!
YA KNOW I'D GIVE YOU EVERYTHING I'VE GOT FOR A LITTLE PIECE OF MIND..."
Lyrics stolen from "I'm so Tired" by the Beatles
from the 1968 release commonly referred to as
"The White Album"
If you don't have this album you are dysfunctional...
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