Day Ten

Date: 5/19/22

Current Time: 4:15

Today’s Time: 6:30 hrs

Overall Time: 62:30 hrs

I started out the day by rubbing the oars with steel wool then getting another coat of varnish on them. I did the same fore the underside of the rail. After that, I used some white vinegar and water to try to clean my brass screws. Apparently, if you soak them overnight, it gets rid of a lot of discoloration. The only reason I wanted to try this is because the slot of the screw was discolored, everything else will be hidden in the wood. 

(After six hours)

(After six hours)

Around the same time I finished this, my grandparents arrived with a brand new trailer! 

My grandfather took off one of the wheels to discourage anyone from stealing it, and we left it (with permission) in the maintenance lot. I can’t take it home because I don’t have it registered. 

After we all had lunch, I got back to work. I want to make a nameplate for this boat, and to do that I think I will try to use a dremel tool to carve it out. So I started hunting for some wood to use for the nameplate and after that started practicing on some scrap wood. 

As I was looking through the many attachments Greg has for his dremel, I realized that one of them was a mini wire brush! There were still some spots I wasn’t able to get to with the full sized angle grinder brush, so I used the dremel to get the last of the discoloration off!