Plan B

Plan B

Another day, another Boatshop. Unperturbed after yesterday's fiasco, this morning I resolved to stike back by quickly developing an effective "Plan B". I reckon the rediculously inclement weather yesterday (thousands of homes blacked out & areas southwest of here got record rainfall) was a blessing in disguise. Obviously, I've been on the wrong track with the design of this first shelter, and I'm glad this was revealed to me before I'd made heaps of progress, which would've complicated taking remedial action greatly. I need to come up wth something a little more robust. More rain was predicted for this afternoon, so I had to pull my finger out. Below was the scene that greeted me when I went out this morning.

Mulling the situation over yesterday afternoon, there was one obvious course of action. We have a carport in front of our cabin (converted garage), where I have been storing my surfcat.

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I had initially rejected this as an option, because we are in the process of arranging finance for an extension to our house which runs right through this area. Not knowing how long this boat is going to take to build, I was (ironically) worried about having to set up an emergency shelter for it. The bank has been an absolute pain in the backside for most of last year (due to the "GFC") and, after a few phone calls with our mortgage broker, it seems we've probably got another couple of months messing around at least. It could work in my favour to have the boat in this spot because I'll really have to get my skates on & get it finished pretty pronto. With a distinct lack of options at this point in time, it was decision made.

Long story short, I went out and hacked into the large bush you can probably see in the above photo and spent the day swapping the cat & strongback around and rearranging the tarp accordingly. Half way through this, the predicted rain hit with a vengence but at least there wasn't any lightning.

The strongback doesn't seem to be getting wet any more, except for the legs which still cop some water running down the driveway. I'll have to come up with some way of diverting all this water, as well as setting up more tarps to protect from any driving wind and rain. For today though, I'm definately over it all.