Actual Boatwork Getting Done

Though I have only scheduled a couple days a month at home, I managed to get some actual boatwork done in this week while I was in town. My schedule was to be home a couple days next week, but trucking is really slow between the holidays and so I took them this week. While I’m concentrating on filling in the boat budget, I’m not putting any pressure on myself to get things done. Mostly, I fiddle around when I’m home. I’m not sure what got into me this week but I was motivated to get busy.
I have written before that the depth sounder on Emma was a useless and flaky. There was a little Hawkeye depth sounder attached to a door hinge so it could swing out into the companionway. The transducer, meant to hang off the transom a small boat, was unceremoniously glued inside the hull under the starboard bunks. Further, the transducer was glued a fair distance above the keel on the
curve of the hull. Hence, it was pointed well to starboard. The transducer works like most people imagine sonar d…
I have written before that the depth sounder on Emma was a useless and flaky. There was a little Hawkeye depth sounder attached to a door hinge so it could swing out into the companionway. The transducer, meant to hang off the transom a small boat, was unceremoniously glued inside the hull under the starboard bunks. Further, the transducer was glued a fair distance above the keel on the
curve of the hull. Hence, it was pointed well to starboard. The transducer works like most people imagine sonar d…