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Real Progress!

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I I am almost done adding the last layer on the bow. I have to add the remaining layers on the center and bow of the boat. Once the layers are added, I'm going to add some foam rubber to the bottom Noodles in order to protect them from scraping when the boat is being transported to the lake. I want to make sure that I don't have to do anything else to the bottom of the boat for a very long time. This time I brought enough liquid nails and I finally brought the right caulking gun for it. I found it very hard to pull the Noodles off, once the adhesive is dry. It's been raining real hard, and the Noodles I layered using the liquid nails for construction, didn't come apart during the heavy rains. It showed the strength of the adhesive's water resistance.

A Day With Murphy!

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 I  started adding more Noodles to the bottom of the boat. Everything was going great until I brought two tubes of Liquid Nails that wasn't the same as the first Liquid Nails I purchased last week. I couldn't understand why the Noodles kept falling off. The first tube of Liquid Nail that I brought was a heavy duty formula for construction projects. The Noodles bonded very quickly after adding the  construction adhesive.  In my frustration, I discovered that not all Liquid Nails adhesives are equal. Some are more like glue that peels off your hands like skin. It dawned on me that the tube of Liquid Nails I brought last week, was made out of hard brown paper. The tubes I brought over the weekend was made of plastic. The construction adhesive is more difficult to clean off your hands than the Liquid Nails that comes in the plastic tubes. What made things more difficult were that the Liquid Nails weren't all in the same place because of the different kind of applications they

Design Update!

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I was told that I needed to add three more layers of  noodle water floating tubes to the boat, so it won't sit too low in the water. That means that I'm going to have to get at least two heavy duty jacks so I can lift the boat off the tires that it's re sting on. A friend of the family, who has experience in boat building saw the boat, and gave me some advice on improving the design. I wish I would have ran into him a year ago, when the boat was light enough for me to still lift and turn it over. I guess it good that I ran into him when I did because good advice always come with experience. I did some brainstorming today to figure out how I was going to put the boat on it's side. I used the lever technique, and I was able to lift the boat up on one side using a pole that belonged to a chain fence. I call it the see-saw technique, where you put weight on the other side while lifting up the object. Well to my surprise it worked. Having to work on the bottom of the boat