Monday, June 2, 2014

August 18, 2013, Sunday

6am and the sky is hazy, but layered, not unlike layers of cheesecloth. Two boats have gone out and it is beginning to rain.
I am writing a song for you: 
Oh, the fish don't cry when the rain comes down
For they're already wet, so they don't frown.
They eat the bugs crawling on the ground
That wash in the water when the rain falls down.
REPEAT until you tire of it.


I may cry, I may frown as trouble is rising all around. Daddy, who loves me from above, wraps me in his perfect love.
Sends his angels don't you see, they are coming to rescue me. Jesus loves me this I know. he, hee.
Now, on to boat design things. A motor pontoon or a motor launch is not fit for sailing. I want sails eventually, because of ecological changes coming. Therefore this pontoon raft will need modification or a complete replacement. How?
Free thinking, brain storming---no critical evaluations. Lower a center pontoon to form a wide keel. Make a keel outright. Use the quarras, or make a side board. in sail mode I would like full length as most efficient
Analyze: mobile side boards best for extending boat, but quarras best for finished length.. OK go with these. Easy mounting made by making a  scabbard-like sheath against existing pontoons.
Add four foot lengths from now on. Because this is cheap and allows both sail and solar collector room. Step mast to 12 foot long 2x6's  with glued 2x4 casing attached. Mast to be removable. Sail of a lanteen type. Maximum deck width 12 feet. Maximum length 50 feet. Then maximum lanteen sail spar length 70 feet, assuming a 60/degree equilateral triangle. If 90* triangle a 74 foot long spar. Both versions flat cut sail with curved free hem. Blanket stitched to 1/4 inch nylon sheet, or polyester. Aluminum pulleys on turnbuckles. use aluminum cleats.
The rain has paused. Cars with voyeur people are about again. I am reading "And Having Writ" and "Blood Brothers." It is muggy, it will rain soon.
Doc brought his boat in and two boys came by with their parents to inspect my raft. I will finish cleaning out the cabin cruiser tomorrow. Thanks for the rain, Lord.
Good night daddy

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