Archive for the 'the move' Category
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
A change in “work-style”
It’s been very different working at the new site. Back in the bone yard of the Morgan Marina I had this constant feeling of pressure pushing the project into the gravel that the boat was parked on. Between the crushed boats and the oppressive tent that I had to work on, it was pretty miserable. Especially that tent! Sure it kept the whole thing bone dry and allowed me to make a work shop of sorts, but at the cost of working in 94º heat in a bunny suit. I never knew I could drink so much water until this past August. Read the rest of this entry »
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
New home for Hobyn
It was a good couple of months at Morgan Marina but it feels great to be be out of the bone yard.
Today’s haul went perfectly and Hobyn is now sitting pretty in Piscattaway.
It was interesting during the whole move. At one point, the yard moved the boat about 100 feet to the travel lift while I was on board. Read the rest of this entry »
Monday, September 10th, 2007
stood up
OK, take the image of the boat below, subtract the boat, and what your are left with is the object of my frustrated desire.
I called Morgan Marina today to order the stands and pay my boat yard bill and just when I thought it was all going to work out,
Me: Hi, I talked to you Friday about some boat stand. I wanted 5 of the SB-2 Brownell’s.
Marina: Right, we took a look at your boat and think that you only need SB-3’s [smaller size by 6 inches or so].
Me: I don’t think so but ok, how much for the SB-3’s?
Marina: $138 each
Me: Um, are you sure, you quoted me $128 for the larger SB-2’s
Marina: Maybe those were last year’s price.
Me: No I was there when you called up your distributer and and they quoted you a price.
Marina: Well maybe there’s a mistake we’ll have to call you back about that.
Crap, that’s all I have to say. Should have ordered them when I could, off to search the craigslist and classifieds.
Monday, September 10th, 2007
The “stand”
Boat stands are kind of like the SCUBA gear of a boat. Boats aren’t supposed to live on land, it’s just the wrong environment. The stands allow for the boat to live there for a short period of time (or a long one…). Just like you can’t go diving without your gear, you can’t store your boat without stands.
Sure I could try to make stands but the truth is that in the long run, wooden stands just aren’t going to cut it for a 2 year project. Over the years the boat is going to settle, I’m going to have to move the stands to paint, and the stands are going to have to be adjusted.
The stands that I like the best are made by a company called Brownell. The yard that Hobyn is in right now uses them and I like the way they are made. Brownell has a website and a distributers list, so as usual, let the price shopping begin.
- Distributer 1 : “sorry we don’t sell to the public”
- Distributer 2: “you need to have an account with us and to get an account you need to be a marine service provider.
- me: “I have a boat, and I do work on it, isn’t that service?”
- Distributer 2: “No
- Retailer 1: “Sure, we can get them to you next week for $147 plus shipping and NJ sales tax”
- Marina 2: “Ok, that comes to $159 per stand that they’ll probably get here in 2 days.
I guess Morgan Marina really did, have the best prices.
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
The things that move you
“You win some, you lose some”, that’s been the name of the game with this new move.
I won with the boatyard bill, a few hundred less than I thought which means that they pro-rated my time there. Yay! The only time I’ve had to deal with the term “pro-rate” was with my old scum-lord landlord. In his case, he wanted to pro-rate my rent when I needed a few extra days to move out. That was also a win, but off track of the topic at hand.
I won with the mover, Jim was really flexible about pick up and delivery times and I managed to book him for this thursday at 1pm. When I asked Jim about boat stands I got the answer I was kind of hoping to avoid, “ask the marina”. This is Fall, the main haul out time of the year. There a snow ball’s chance in hell that they are going to sell me used stands.
I was right, I couldn’t get used stands but they’ll order them for me at $128 a piece and get there the next day. Bummer, I was really hoping to keep the stands to under $450. I think I’ll shop around and see what I can dig up and call back on Monday if the price is right.