Getting on

My bruises, scapes and bumps from the car-dooring are slowly healing up.  I still have a very sore elbow and hip.  Hey ho, hopefully in another month it will all be a faint memory and a few scars.

Boating continues to be prohibited.  The inconsistencies and lack of logic could be annoying.  Surfing is permitted, but if one stands up on a surf board with a paddle, then one has become a recreational craft and use is not permitted.  It is not ok to catch a fish, but, apparently, it is ok to shoot a duck. One is not necessary, the other apparently is necessary.  I don't really understand, but I try to keep my head down and not get trampled or run over by the crowds of people jogging, cycling, meandering along the pathway by the foreshore.

To fill in the next few months, I have begun a building a cradle boat, from plans supplied by CLC.  I am exploring new frontiers in home delivery - two sheets of plywood turned up today, a box with epoxy and other bits and pieces is hopefully on its way from Whitworths, and the router bit I need is coming from the charmingly named Total Tools. If only I could get a nice bit of mahogany over the internet, I would have everything I need.

I started this afternoon, transferring the outlines of the side panels and bottom onto one sheet of ply.  It is nice to be boat building again, even if it is a boat that will never see water. 

The cradle boat is a 50% scale model of the Eastport pram dinghy, which I see can be constructed as a nesting dinghy.  Now there is an interesting idea.