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Are you building a boat?
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:39 pm
by cjensen
It's never looked more like a boat to me than it did yesterday sitting in the front yard!
According to several passerby's, and my mom, I'm right!
...rearranged the garage yesterday so I have room to fit my wings for the fist time (hopefully tonight!).
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 3:37 pm
by tmbg
aw man, I wish I were building a boat!
I'm already sick of building these big metal rafts
Re: Are you building a boat?
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 3:48 pm
by Brantel
cjensen wrote:...rearranged the garage yesterday so I have room to fit my wings for the fist time (hopefully tonight!).
Good luck Chad, let us know how it goes and we want pics on the site by morning, complete with detailed directions!
Why don't you take a nice vacation down here in East TN for a while and help me get my "boat" to the point where you are now. We have plenty of lakes, thanks to the TVA, to float them in.
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:01 pm
by cjensen
Just a quick update on the wing mating ceremony...it has been postponed to Wednesday, so I'll have details Thursday morning!
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:09 pm
by Brantel
cjensen wrote:Just a quick update on the wing mating ceremony...it has been postponed to Wednesday, so I'll have details Thursday morning!
Awe man
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:17 pm
by TomC
Ahhhh! I remember it well. I first put my wings on in my 2 car garage. Since its not big enough, I had the fuselage parallel with the garage door. This meant that one wing was into the garage and one stuck out into the driveway. Quite a site. I remember crawling up a ladder to unplug the garage door opener so the obvious would not happen. It then started to rain so off came the wings, back to the basement, and wait for another day when the process was repeated. What a time! It sure looked great! You have to watch yourself or you'll be sitting around admiring you handiwork, not finishing the job at hand.
Good luck and enjoy yourself.
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:19 pm
by captain_john
Chad, Cool!
With this heat you are gonna need a boat, seeing as you got rid of that nice old one you had!
CJ
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:23 pm
by cjensen
captain_john wrote:Chad, Cool!
With this heat you are gonna need a boat, seeing as you got rid of that nice old one you had!
CJ
Yeah, yeah...I'll be kicking myself for that one of these days!
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:36 pm
by BrickPilot
You know, after building some fuel tanks, I bet most builders could easily build a simple fishing boat. Some of the curves up front might be interesting, but not impossible. Probably quite a few boat kits out there.
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:45 pm
by painless
Chad:
Just stick a good sized Merc on the firewall end and your wife won't be mad at you for selling the boat anymore.
It should really plane great!!
Sorry about that, but I couldn't pass that one up!!
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:47 pm
by cjensen
Good one Jeff! Seen any boats up there in WI I could buy???
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:50 pm
by painless
cjensen wrote: Good one Jeff! Seen any boats up there in WI I could buy???
Oh ya sure...You betcha! I'll send a bunch of pics to your wife for ya!
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:54 pm
by cjensen
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! She is FINALLY over it...let's keep it that way!
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:04 pm
by 4kilo
It's funny. When I went through my boat building phase a few years ago, people were always asking me if I was building an airplane!
Pat
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:26 am
by Brantel
Chad,
Congrats on getting the wings on! Looks great!
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:30 am
by cjensen
Thanks Brian! I'll get a new thread started shortly with pics from my site.
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 7:23 pm
by N200PF
SWEET CHAD!!! I've been waiting for you to slow down but you haven't! You're going to have your 40 flown off before I get my wings on!
- Peter