Egged?

OK, so one of the reasons we haven't been getting a whole lot done on the i550 is things like eggs.  Those odd looking greenish blue (the gelcoat was blue...) things are the molds for making oversized easter eggs for a couple of local candy stores.  One set for Sweet Pete's, the existing customer, and one set with bases for the new customer, a franchised Peterbrook's store.  Next, we get to make them both oversized ice cream cones! For those new here, we previously got to make very large candy canes and then a few large candy hearts as well as the main sign for Sweet Pete's.

If you are in the area of Jacksonville, they both are worth checking out.  Both have a websites as well.

 The other thing that seems to get in the way of the i550 is the increased business in the welding shop.  The pile of steel is the material for the next three A/C cages due next week.


And of course, no other welder at the moment and so I get elected to do it. At least we have a great little jig made that makes it all go faster.  Good thing too as there will be three more to be done before the end of the week.


 Finally, the i550.  I had hoped to have the thing sailing in time for the Mug race, but with that less then two months away, I have my doubts. (Do ya think?)  A couple of guys are going to start back in on it next week and hopefully the new rudder cores will arrive as well.

I should have started working on the bearing mounts for the rudders, but that just seems like one of those jobs that needs to be started early in the AM and get it done in one sitting. Or I might be putting it off.  Not sure which.

We had issues with the bow when we stitched the boat up and fixed most of them a while ago.   However, once we flipped the boat, the chine area at the bow was still a bit off. Today I spend some time tweaking the chine.  We ended up with a bit of unfairness on the starboard chine and so used our foam and epoxy technique to add material and long boarded everything fair again.  A little epoxy putty and it is ready for sanding
and fairing again.  And again.

 We are strongly considering a name change.  Due to a few comments that were made on the i550.org site referring to some of the boats that have not been built exactly like the early boats, meaning no cabins, in board rudders, etc., as Frankenboats, we are thinking that the name Frank iStein may just be appropriate.  The boat sort of looks the part at the moment, all wood and epoxy sort of haphazardly put together.

Still will be a black boat though, after all, the best two Frankenstein movies  (the Original and Young Frankenstein) were filmed in black and white.