Ooo! Sparkly! Redfury's Grinding again!

[redfury]

Fortunately, the back thing turned out to be annular tear of the disc between L4 and L5. For those not familiar with back injury, that's the most common spot to start to have problems with. It's essentially the vertebrae below your belt line. Basically I got a few "dry rot" spots in it and have been taking it easy on restrictions and going to physical therapy. The pain is way way down. I take Aleve to keep it from getting aggravated and have been on office duty at work with short field work. They are going to evaluate my possible return to work after Dec 4 and see about integrating me slowly back into it. Part of me is happy, part of me is skeptical since they say this kind of injury takes a while to heal, so I'm going to squawk if I start getting pushed too hard. Not planning on ending up with a back fusion at 42 like 3 of my other friends, all of which are disabled and couldn't use a boat unless the water was calm. Well, we know the water is never calm in a tri hull...lol.

The cover held up well to the snow. Officially we got 17". I let it sit there for almost a week and then brushed it off. It's not perfect, but as long as I get out there and get the snow off on occasion, I'll be in good shape. the nice thing about it though, is that no matter what, summer storage with the tarp when I can't use the boat, rain isn't going to pool up on it at all. that's better news than any problems with snow.

 

[redfury]

Mid winter update. The Weather here has been pretty mild all things considered. That original snowfall ended up being pretty much it for now. I'm sure we've got snow coming still, but it's been pretty quiet. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to take advantage of it outside. The back continues to improve, I can work on projects around the house and do my work again, but I still am limiting myself to small engagements when I can.

I picked up some vinyl wrap that I plan to use on the motor cover. I worked with it on a small project. Certainly has a learning curve, but I tried it on my old Boat horn, which was full of compound curves. The plan for the engine cover gives me a lot more simplicity since it's just going to be a band around the majority of the middle of it, the rest will be repainted. I'm currently sanding off all the old paint. It's not a huge priority, but it's nice to get something accomplished in the down time. Once I get the rest of the body sanding done on the cap and get it primed and painted, I hope to see much faster progress, though I'm sure visually there won't be nearly as much "wow" factor to the transformation. The plan is to take a week of vacation and work on the boat this year. Hopefully I'll pick a week that doesn't rain... Pics to follow! Stay tuned!

 

[nurseman]

Good to hear from a fellow Minnesotan! After that first snowfall, I thought we were in for a rough one too! Glad to hear you are on the mend!

 

[redfury]

Well, it looks like the good weather is here to stay. Short of a freak snow storm like we had last May, I'll be getting back to the boat. The winter storage cover worked perfectly, not a single problem with it, so I'll continue to use that design until I find inside storage for it once it's complete and worth spending that kind of money on. Money is going to be tight this summer, so I can't expect that there will be a whole lot of updates. I still plan on finishing painting, as that will only cost me in the range of 50-100 bucks, and I can pull that off. It's those darn medical bills that gotta get paid and some debt I accumulated over a tight winter with cut hours and a few other changes. Life. However, the plan is still to get the boat painted, the motor hung and the boat hardware reinstalled. Rigging the boat will be the next job as well as starting on the interior. If I'm super lucky, I'll have the boat out on the lake for a shakedown run, but we'll have to see about that.

 

[redfury]

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well look at what we have here!

 

[Yacht Dr.]

Dude..that turned out pretty spiffy. Congrats man !

 

[nurseman]

Very nice!

 

[83mulligan]

Looking good, Red!

 

[redfury]

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Windshield is in place... Drool.... I'm sooooo happy with the way this is looking!

 

[redfury]

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slowly....slowly! Getting the final stages of paint applied to the boat.....

 

[redfury]

 

[redfury]

Aaaand, the boat is officially registered through the 2017 season! Now all I have to do is get new boat numbers for it , hang the motor, rig it all up, put in the interior and give it a whirl on the wet stuff! Date TBD.

 

[redfury]

Here's another glamour shot..

 

[Woodonglass]

Hey, your pix are NOT posting correctly!!!:blue:

 

[redfury]

Which pictures? 4 of my previous 5 posts have pictures... Hosted by Iboats.com and my Google account.

 

[nurseman]

Post # 351 and 353 don't have anything, :noidea:

 

[Woodonglass]

Yup, If you can see em We can't!!!

 

[redfury]

Okay, well they show up on my screen, but they are hosted through google photos....I may have to change permissions in that folder...

 

[redfury]

Huh, well, I'm not entirely sure what is going on with the way I'm hosting photos...I used to run through Picasa, so I'll have to look into how I'm uploading them. Let me know if you can even view this photo....

 

[redfury]

Here's a few more photos...I think..lol