Thursday, September 27, 2007

Not much to report

So life is good. I've been keeping pretty busy at church but not too bad, it's a comfortable busy.

I'm thinking about becoming and amateur boat builder...Sounds good right? Some of the people in my congregation went to a wooden boat show in Port Townsend, WA and brought me back some flyers. One of them was from a company called Chesapeake light craft. They make wooden boat kits and mail them to you. I thumbed through their catalogue and found a boat that would be perfect. It takes 100 hours to build and the end result is beautiful, assuming you have the skill and patience to do it correctly. Well that got me thinking, and I did some looking on the Internet. Have you noticed that most "good" ideas have got their start somewhere on the Internet? There are these people out there in Internet land that build boats from plywood in their garage, and there is a sub-culture of "those people" that build boats from one sheet of plywood. They're called OSS, one sheet skiffs, now we're cookin. There are all sorts of plans and challenges on the Internet around building these little boats. And as luck would have it I live on a small lake that would be the perfect OSS proving ground. You can only imagine how excited Heather is about this project!!
Here's what you do, Google "one sheet skiffs" and you'll see what I'm talking about... pretty sweet eh?

I'm thinking this is a church activity in the making, think about all the cool stuff we could do with the Biblical stories about water and boats. Sky's the limit, so to speak?

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