Daddy, it is Sunday afternoon and I did a pile of sanding on the most damaged boat. I took Lorrie's Jeep and went to where I pulled the boats up with the visiting girls yesterday. I found all three boats partially afloat. The river rose another two feet last night. I arrived at 10:45AM and pulled them back ashore. I moved two hulls to higher ground and moved the 2 by 4's as well. All of them were floating in mostly submerged grass and stinging nettles. I lost one, but 10 2 by 4's were saved.
I loaded the last hull on top of the Jeep, tied it down and came home. If I had not gotten to the river this morning, I would have had everything washed away. The tree where I first tied the whole unit, is more than 30 feet out in the river and the water is still rising after yesterday's flood warnings. It will have to come up an additional 3 feet to endanger the boats again. I pulled the boats a fair distance up hill.
I got the boat that had been ripped along its bottom home at 11:45AM. Looks like a long branch still attached to an uprooted tree poked through the plywood and then twisted to rip the bottom away from the sides of the boat.
I sanded for two hours and it was a chore. Part of the paint was gummy. There must have been an adverse reaction between the resin and the paint, or I may not have used enough catalyst in one batch of resin as I finished the last hull. Anyway, it gummed up a stack of sandpaper sheets. I'll finish tomorrow.
Thanks for getting me to the river in time.
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