28 10 2007
It’s nearly wakeboard season
I realised today that Melbourne Cup day is the 1st anniversary of buying my boat Muchacha. I’ve taken her out a couple of times this winter but now that the weather’s heating up it’s time to get busy again. I spent an hour or two tidying her up this afternoon: greased all the grease points, turned the engine over, tidied up the interior, thought about what I can do to improve her for not much money etc.
Even though it was 5.30pm I was very tempted to take her out for a spin (hooray for daylight saving) but I’d already knocked over a couple of beers so I didn’t. Ah well, there’s always next week.
I’m dead keen to get some weekends in at Mulwala and/or Eildon before the Christmas/January silly season. With any luck some of my friends will too - I need an observer!
Good times at Mulwala last year
I found this book today - Runabout Renovation. From a customer review:
This is the ultimate source of information for the do-it-yourself fiberglass boat restorer. The time, money and effort saved by following Jim Anderson’s advice makes this an absolute bargain. By using this as a guide for my own restoration project, I now have a boat that is unique in appearance (1964 Glastron Starflite Deville) yet it is stronger in construction than it was new. But the best part is that I was able to do it all for less than $1,000…a fraction of the cost of a new boat!
It’d make a great Christmas present…….