It's a little bit shocking that, despite having taken over the entire garage to work on this project, I keep running out of room. I think there may be a certain lack of organizational skills.
So the other day a fellow from UPS dropped off four boxes of trailer. I had ordered a trailer kit, and here it was, and I needed to get it into the garage. While the calendar says spring, the skies say 'drip' around there this month. Left outside the boxes would turn to mush, like everything else is doing.
I opened the big garage door and looked with some dismay at the contents. Boat, boat parts, work bench, 2 small tables, some sawhorses, lawnmower and garden tools, and the two gargantuan ladders one needs for the six-times-yearly gutter-cleaning chore. No room for the boxes.
I knew what to do--I would scoot the ladders over with my foot, creating a long space on the floor, suitable for trailer parts. But as I scooted, one of the ladders -- the larger, heavier one -- caught on something and fell over noisily. It seemed like it might have landed on a boat part -- a spar, perhaps -- but I wasn't sure.
Until I saw this the other day:
That is a part of the boom -- for the lubbers among you, that's the horizontal stick at the bottom of the big sail -- and it has been given a righteous dent by that evil ladder.
Now, it's possible that the boom arrived here with the dent in it, and I just didn't notice it, and the ladder really just landed on the garage floor. It's possible. But I don't know, and given the CLC crew's prodigious packing skills, I can't in good faith call 'em up and say HEY THIS IS DENTED.
So, I'm going to have to repair this piece. I could go and find a replacement -- it's just a piece of some kind of wood -- but I think I'll repair it.
I'm not sure how I'll repair it. Fill it with thickened epoxy, then sand it smooth? Maybe. Shape a piece of wood and glue it in with epoxy, then sand it all smooth? Maybe. I dunno. I don't have to think a out it for a couple of weeks, but it surely makes me sad.
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