Boatbuilding fever WTF is wrong with me?

glatt · 07-15-2013, 12:32 PM

I wasn't able to keep it at the lake in PA for a variety of reasons, but I'm not too thrilled with it being in the back yard now. Kind of ugly. I wish I had a garage. I'd hang it from the rafters.

Griff · 07-15-2013, 12:52 PM

Put legs under it and call it your new kitchen table.

glatt · 07-15-2013, 01:32 PM

Maybe I could rig up a hay loft door in our attic with a pulley system and store it up there.

Griff · 07-15-2013, 01:41 PM

You'd get a much more useful attic space. Are you going to refinish the boat?

glatt · 07-15-2013, 01:47 PM

Well, the attic has blown in cellulose insulation and no floor, so it gets no use now. But I could, in theory, hang this from the rafters. Maybe put down a narrow walkway over the joists so I can get up there without the worry of stepping through the ceiling.

I'd have to turn the gable vent into a door, make some sort of telescoping or sliding boom and attach pulleys to it. It would probably be easier to build a shed.

07-15-2013, 12:52 PM	#2
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Put legs under it and call it your new kitchen table. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-15-2013, 01:41 PM	#4
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	You'd get a much more useful attic space. Are you going to refinish the boat? __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-15-2013, 12:32 PM	#1
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I wasn't able to keep it at the lake in PA for a variety of reasons, but I'm not too thrilled with it being in the back yard now. Kind of ugly. I wish I had a garage. I'd hang it from the rafters.

07-15-2013, 01:32 PM	#3
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Maybe I could rig up a hay loft door in our attic with a pulley system and store it up there.

07-15-2013, 01:47 PM	#5
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Well, the attic has blown in cellulose insulation and no floor, so it gets no use now. But I could, in theory, hang this from the rafters. Maybe put down a narrow walkway over the joists so I can get up there without the worry of stepping through the ceiling. I'd have to turn the gable vent into a door, make some sort of telescoping or sliding boom and attach pulleys to it. It would probably be easier to build a shed.

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