The Dry Deck!

Center and outer stripes are the beam lines and the other 2 are the 8 ft guide marks for the trailer wheels to help in placement of the trailer.

9 ft Wide Entrance for an 8 ft wide Boat and Trailer!

16 ft 2x6 Joists

Girder Beams & Posts

Pat & Neal

Neill & Son Easy Breezy Ship Repair Facility Begins To Take Shape

Between the 1st and the 7th I was able to build a 16'x32' deck in the backyard. Good friends Pat, Neal and brother in law Tymn gave above and beyond of their 4th of July time to help me get it done. It is built of mostly scavenged and used wood which was a huge savings. The structure has 3 32ft 4x8 beams sitting on 15 4x8 posts, 16ft 2x6 joists on 16" centers, fully blocked to keep them from dominoing and decked off with 1 1/8' tongue and groove plywood with 28 screws per 4x8 sheet. There is a a good bit of 1 by cross bracing underneath.

Bilge Mung & Beautiful Stainless Fuel Tanks

Apologies for the tardy posting my only excuse is that life has been busy enough to keep me away from Redwing.
A few hours on my knees in the bilge yielded this beautiful 5 gal. bucket of bilge mung aaahhhhh gotta love it. I then found the perfect use for Bud Light.............washing ones mouth out after siphoning 30+ gallons of very very old, scrody, scummy, rotten old gasoline. I had to resort to the old Oklahoma credit card because I had no power near by at the time. The old fuel was then suitably disposed of at the local hazmat facility. Each beautiful 55 gal tank has now been thoroughly cleaned by Macs Radiator here in Portland. They were so filthy that each baffled compartment had to be cut open for extra cleaning......they then spent 2 full weeks in their hot tank! I know I am jumping the gun. I won't need the tanks for a good long while but I have never smelled such sour fuel in my life, they would have stunk up any space I stored them!