Oh hey, its another #BoatPost update of #SVBellaCiao.

Last week I brought a friend who does a lot of demolition projects and she taught me to be ruthless. We also basically filled the cellar at home 100% filled with salvage, so it's time to just destroy. So yesterday I took out three bulkheads and removed a shit ton of wood. This revealed more rust than I could have imagined, but it's above the water line so I'm less worried about it.

I'm feeling really good about this progress! Maybe it'll soon be time to sandblast!

i've been hesitant to go to #SVBellaCiao the last couple weeks bc i was sick and on saturday i'm doing a big travel and don't want to get sick again. and in the few weeks since i've been to the boat, I've become enthralled with mechanical design engineering, is this my new calling? should i buy a 3d printer and a lathe RIGHT NOW?

staring down the barrel of a new hyperfocus, utterly unable to do anything about it

Another boat day now that I'm back on my feet.

Today's work isn't too exciting, but I did nix the old fridge. The dumpster at the wharf is always full of boat detritus so I can't throw away as much as I want to, and I always have to take the time to make it as small as possible.

If I had more energy, I'd bike back to the harbor and fill my backpack up with another load of wood and bronze that might survive the rebuild, but I don't wana push it, so I'll just stay home and rest.

Some side thoughts:
It's very funny seeing how my standards for "salvageable" have changed since the winter. I just found a bag of "stuff to keep", which I'd now categorize 90% of it as "stuff to toss".

Even if I never manage to get her seaworthy, I'm really enjoying this process. I feel like when I was a kid and my dad and I took apart the garage door opener to fix it. Nonstop fascination and learning. She was an overpriced lesson, but I'm a happy student.

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It's time for a #BoatPost, #moinstodon. Winter is coming and since Bella Ciao has holes that let water in from the top AND the bottom, we gotta put a tent on her for the rainy(er) winter season. Here's some "Before" pics and some "After" pics to compare. There's no tarp yet, but a decent structure to hold it up. It was 21:30 as I was screwing these frames together without power tools, trying to keep quiet for the neighbors and the tarp woulda just been too loud.

So what you're looking at is a simple A-Frame with some extra doohickeys to try to keep the tarp above the stanchion (the railing to keep one from falling out of the boat). If water can get into any local minima, then it'll pool and collect more and pull down more, and eventually ruin the tarp. So the idea is to not let any meaningful amount of water collect. I gotta do a lil more, but I made a decent dent in the work tonight. #SVBellaCiao

Hey look it's a #BoatPost day. Today I'm gona start working on Bella Ciao's starboard side, which has mostly remained untouched except for accumulating crap. I would love to keep the wood stove intact, but I don't think a winterized boat on the hard and a functional woodstove are both in the cards for me. I'll probly eventually break and take it out, having never used it. Then I guess I'll keep warm with hot water bottles while I work in the winter months, if winter ever comes to #Hamburg this year.

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