When my sister and I were kids, we stayed up late every Easter Sunday to watch the 1956 version of “The Ten Commandments” starring Charlton Heston. I don’t know why ABC airs this film every Easter weekend (I was informed they now play it on Saturday); because I’m not sure what relevance it actually has to resurrection of Christ. Perhaps someone can enlighten me. I suppose when you’re young you don’t question these things… Though, I did wonder why the Egyptians in the film were lighter than my classmate who was half Egyptian/half Caucasian…and I thought the rocks on Mount Sinai looked like foam.
Regardless, I’ve come to the conclusion that this holy weekend makes everyone think Biblically. At least for me, 9 out of 10 people who saw me working on the boat had to refer to Noah’s arch--asking whether a flood was coming or if I was collecting two of every species. I had a lot of commentators and a number of drivers slow their cars down as they drove by...including the mailman. It’s not too common to see someone building a boat in their Northern Virginian driveway. Trust me, I know from personal experience.
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| The mailman adding his commentary |
Despite the distractions, I was able to get some critical stuff done. I’ll break up what I did in a couple of blog posts.
To attach the hog, my dad used his router to create notches in our bow stem and transom. The hog is like a spine that runs from the front of the boat to the back (I later attached the seats to this. I will post this soon). We cut a long narrow piece of clear lumber for our hog and placed it in the bow stem notch and ran it to the notch in the transom. . Below are some pictures to illustrate:
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| My dad routing a notch in the bow stem |
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| I took this picture after I did some epoxying, but this is how the hog sits in the bow stem notch |
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| Our hog. We will cut the excess off later. |
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