still some flowers left

[piranha]

small red dahlia.

the boat's starboard side has the first layer of cloth on the hull.

we went to look at the boat P had been working on when we first met him, which has now been in the water for a bit more than 4 years. since that's the prototype for a lot of the tech P uses on our boat, we wanted to see how some of the things had held up. pretty good -- almost all of it seems intact. outside brightwork isn't, but that seems purely due to lack of maintenance. there's an area that appears "active" on the port bow where there are a couple of cracks in the paint. that boat has only one layer of glass; we're doing two.

we also wanted to remind ourselves what the inside looks like, and we're pretty much going with the same general ideas -- we already have the cherry/cedar for the sole, and we'll do clear pine tongue-and-groove for the ceiling (unlike landbased houses, the ceiling is the inside lining of the hull; the area above your head is imaginatively called "overhead"). and birch veneer for the cabinets, and mahogany trim.

P and i will have a fight over the hull colour. he thinks it should be white. i want a dark hull. i think i'll write to the epoxy company so i can get first hand information that it won't cook the epoxy. it's not like we'll go to the caribbean any time soon.

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That's a beautiful picture. Just the perfect red flower.