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After slashing my hand on Thursday, my RN friend banned me from working yesterday and the weather was crap. Today was mostly sunny with quickly passing showers so it was game on. Naturally 5 mins in , my hand split open and bleed on the job everywhere. After a quick application of more Steristrips (acts as stitches), I was bandaged and good to go with refusal of medical advice, I got stuck in. So here is the progress shots. I have braced and sistered all the wood beams after removing the rotted sections. The corner must take the load of a large cleat to tie the boat to a dock, it must be strong enough to tow slowly. I will add some extra bracing pieces Monday, throw in some paint to protect the works, then put down the new boards. The post holding up the roof was basically free floating as a previous actual carpenter imbecile ( not this salt chippy) had removed 80% of its base when installing it. It's now fully strong and bracketed with 150mm bugle screws holding it firm to all the timbers including a sister piece. I can now bounce up and down on the corner and it's rock solid. With a few more infill beams added then the boards screwed in, it will be finally shipshape in that area. All the fasteners are stainless marine grade, an absolute must on a boat. No nails as they become a nightmare for inspection or repairs. Many of the boards were fine but split when pulled up- I hate nails. The fun part is having to screw 150mm bugle screws in from the outside. For the sides, I had to push the boat away from the dock then drive the screw in as the boat floats back into the dock. Working on water adds challenges but it's fun.

BOAT...bring out another thousand

Good to see I am not alone in the water loving disease. Looks like great fun.

I curse and complain about the dry rot of wood and constant need to use quality materials and still have maintenance. Especially as I fix my friend Michelle's deck on her house boat. Today after crap health, I went to start work after a big shed trip to Bunnings Aerospace. Grabbed a broken fishing knife to cut some simple cable ties...voila, I slashed open the base of my left thumb/palm deeply. As a certified bleeder on heavy doses of rat poison aka Warfarin, I fucked up and bleed like a pig. Fortunately my supervisor is a RN so went into ER mode. It took 15 minutes to stop the bleeding, used steristrips instead of sutures. Ideally medical super glue is better but bleeders can't be choosers. Now rowing the 500m to my boat adds new meaning. Each row's pain reminding me of my mortality and most of all stupidity. With rain forecast for the next few days, I will lick my wounds, recover then do the blood cover deck. But I would still rather the anguish, fuckups and pain of living in the water. Even bad days are good .

No it's just a distinctive face. No clue on the other

Daniel Craig

Keep on keeping on Red. Myself I row 1 km a day in the tinny to get much needed exercise. Slowly getting fitter.

I hope she is ok, chin up and take your time.

He caught small gar fish and some of the prawns that attracted the prize. A lovely fat mulloway- jewel/Jew fish. He went absolutely nuts when he saw the first prawn arrive, his favourite. Now I just have to get some raw tiger prawns and cook up my chef's special. Jew fish in a 🐅 prawn butter cream sauce top with prawns. Yummmm 🍺🐠😁

But the fish 🐠 don't read rules. Step 1. Throw in a prawn jighead. Step 2. Wait 60 seconds. Step 3. Take bragging shot After a hard day, at least the fish God's love me. 2.8 kg wet and 1.8 kg of fillets. Yum

Yes it's a real pain in the bum for NSW. Officially it's illegal to spend more than 30 days on board in the state per year. That's for any boat. But if you cross a border your fine 365 days. It's ridiculous and not enforced by maritime unless you are trouble. It was changed during the Olympics to clean up the harbour. Officially no one lives on marinas in NSW, but everyone knows it's a joke and water police and maritime won't enforce. It must meet rego and marine standards, electrical and has gas certificate. Must be insured. Officially it's a floating office. No photos today, spent day do Centrelink bullshit.

Once I have done the deck, I might add a additional 3-4ft to the deck as a BBQ and fishing area. Will be floating free but attached, have enquired about some older floating dock. Will also be adding more floatation at back, it sits lower by 6 inches. First real work on the beast after 24 years floating, so not bad at all.

Thanks

It's how the fucker makes his money by sueing.

Zoro supervision as the moon rises.

Arrrh my mateys, she be Edward woodwood. The house is actually on big floating concrete dock pieces filled with foam. On top is wood structure which basically floats on top. Only some of the decks where fresh water settles have rotted. It's structural pine H3 beams and cheap Bunnings Aerospace deck boards. The beams have short sections rotted that I will replace by sistering to existing and will brace together for added strength, then new boards on top. A quote would be $5k minimum. So far $180, and should be done at $300 in bits and bobs. Today I assessed the job with beer and bird as supervisor. Tomorrow start the hard yakka.

The deck on Michele's house boat has gone soft, so time for a rebuild. I will post photos in next few days as I fix the deck. Zoro is upset as the boards have been removed and looks weird to him. He still comes for a fish but he noticed the difference.

So that's what Trump looks like without skin.

Scoped Beretta .223 custom made in Italy. Hole in one, even the longest golf course.

Avogadro's mole is fundamental to all the advances in chemistry, physics, biochemistry and medicine in our modern world. It is one of the greatest discoveries of human history by creating molecular sciences. Without his mole, we would still be living in the steam age, disease and starvation would be our miserable lot, before a old age death at 35. It made "Science" possible rather than a hotspotch of naturalists and philosophical societies. He deserves to stand on the shoulders of Newton and Einstein who would happily admit his mole created modern life.

Yes, some birds refuse to eat it unless it's alive and healthy. My mate Zoro, the super model of birds - a Greater Egret, will only eat live fish, prawns and squid. I can feed him live ones, which he will take, but if it's not fighting to get away, he looks carefully and refuses it. Does the smart dog thing of tilting his head to show he is thinking about it and weighs the risk. Zoro will now come when called to fish on the verandah and always hoots to say hello. Funnily if he misses a catch, he will grunt and hoot in disgust as he does if disturbed by others on the dock. He clearly communicates differently for the circumstances. He even has different speech to tell the Night Heron to "fuck off, I am king of the dock". He even hangs out looking inside the boat through the glass door to see what's up. If the doors open he will poke his head in to check us out. He is a absolute character and given he arrived as a adult, he is remarkably friendly for a wild predator. If he catches one that won't fit head first down his throat, he drops it on the dock for us to have. He has done this with really big Garfish, too big to safely swallow. He always orientated the animal to slide down head first, this stops the risk of a fin or spine catching in his throat- that would be fatal. The Cormorant that always fishes under my friend's houseboat is a massive greedy guts and will swallow fish half his weight easily. Watching them hunt blows me away, they can fly underwater faster than most fish ever swim and be under for minutes. A perfect hunter above or below the surface. Sorry the pic is from crap phone. Zoro is 3 feet away, as I drink a beer and he fishes. Note he is growing his Sexy feathers on his back and will soon have bright red legs and his beak will change from yellow to green. Then he will dance the fantango and find a mate. Living on the water in a world renowned RAMSAR bird sanctuary sure has its benefits.

Neither The Rooster came first or no eggs.

Which came first, the Chicken or the Egg?

Awful day.. The sun was shining, dolphins swimming and the birds were in full larakin mode Had a young friend drop in for a fish from mates houseboat. 1 1/2 hrs, 5 Jewel fish, I flathead, I bream. Bloody hardwork drinking beer and chatting. None were big enough to keep bar one who whilst undersized, swallowed the lure, so will die anyway. Jew fish fillets for dinner tomorrow. Life is hard somedays... apparently.

Didn't implode... What about covid..millions died. The economy tanked and promises were bullshit. Trade war with China... And a attempted coup. Lots of bad shit happened