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Aaaaaand we're back. So, if you've been paying attention, you may have realized that I just fell off the face of the Earth mid-renovation. Obviously, something went awry. Let's not beat around the bush. I temporarily messed up my floors. And, rather than divulge my mishaps as they were happening (Get. Real.) I instead spent a few weeks crying into Cheese's fur, planning my escape to Paraguay, and wiping pizza grease on my sweatpants uniform. Okay, I'm being dramatic. Kinda. There are far worse things in the world than messing up your floors. I've lived through a few of them. However, I'm still a human, I occasionally lose perspective, and I definitely spent a few days drenching poor little Cheese's fur with my tears. Here's what happened. I was determined to have dark floors in our house. I wanted them so bad. I looked at picture after picture of houses with dark floors, and I just knew that our house was meant to have dark floors. I imagined something like this: via Style Me Pretty Or this. via Houzz And then our flooring was installed. And since we used solid hardwood vs engineered hardwood, it was fully installed as unfinished wood (without the stain applied yet), and I had a chance to see what our house would look like with natural floors. And I loved it. It really made our 1970's house look light and bright and beautiful. But, then self-doubt and insecurity raced in and ate me alive. I felt like I should do what everyone else does, rather than do what works best for me, and it felt scary to go against the norm. Plus, my original vision was dark floors, and it was so hard to change course mid-race. In short, I could see with my own eyes that the light flooring looked really great in our house, and yet I ignored myself. I am woman. Hear me roar. So, anyways, I pushed forward with my irrationally dark flooring plan. I eventually settled on a dark brown stain called 'Kona'. In hindsight, I can totally see the doom that was headed my way. But, at the time, I was totally lost in the moment, dirty dancing on Kona's leg. It looked so great when we tested the stain on a small piece of our flooring. I moved it around into each of the rooms and stared at it for several days while the flooring was finished being installed. Again, in hindsight, this was a terrible way to make a decision. A tiny poptart of dark wood does not give you an accurate indication of what your ENTIRE house will look like with wall to wall dark floors. But, ultimately, I gave the go ahead for the stain, and when I came home that day, here's what our floors looked like. It wasn't the worst thing ever. But it definitely wasn't good. And it was just so gloomy. I knew I had made a mistake. I had inadvertently created a 1970's dungeon. The stain turned out kinda orange (which still baffles me), and it didn't take well to the solid hardwood at all. It ended up being blotchy and uneven, and basically, I hated it. When this all started, I had no idea about the differences between solid and engineered flooring, but I definitely do now. In a nutshell, solid hardwood flooring is higher quality, but it's really difficult to get that uniform color that you would get with really dark engineered flooring, because you have to stain most solid hardwood flooring on site. You can buy already stained solid hardwood floors, but that was not in my little budget. There's about a million more things you should know about solid vs. engineering hardwoods (and about a million more options) but my plan is to share that info in another post. Otherwise this post will take you 42 years to read. So, even though the stain looked terrible, there was a bit of a silver lining in the stain debacle...I was able to see once and for all that our house looked bad with dark floors. Because even if they had been a lighter brown, or even just a uniform color, it wouldn't have mattered. I love dark hardwood floors, but not in our house. So don't get mad at me if you have dark floors. Clearly, I wanted a set of my own. It just wasn't meant to be. It was around this time that Cheese's fur got soaked with eyeball secretions. Could I have phrased that any worse? I had no idea what on earth I was going to do. Do I apply for Paraguayan citizenship? Do I buy 800 rugs, admit defeat, and just pretend like none of this ever happened? None of those options seemed viable, so instead I just moped around for a few days and eventually mustered the courage to tell our contractor that we weren't happy. Okay, fine, Jesse did it. But, anyways, our contractor was wonderful about the entire thing, and he agreed to sand the floors back down to the natural wood. He didn't know I have a blog (not that that necessarily would've mattered...I'm not Beyonce). He's just a nice guy who wants to make sure his customers are happy. Of course, we were already at week 5 in the renovation, and this new phase of sanding/sealing tacked on 2 more weeks. Oh, joyous day. So, the sanding began. Again. I was feeling pretty panicked at this point, and searching for yacht-sized rugs online, but I did my best to remain patient and hope for the best. After about a week, most of the stain was sanded off, I began to see the natural wood again, and I remembered how to breathe. There was still stain all over the walls (which will all be repainted and covered down at the bottom with trim anyways), and just a tiny little bit still in the wood grain, but I could definitely see a light at the end of the tunnel. Still though, we were going into week 7, and I began to feel a little meltdown-ey. My fridge and oven were outside on the front deck with a tarp over them. The washer and dryer were next to my bed. And I was still basically living at this place. At one point, I replaced my floor vents and just left the old disgusting ones on my kitchen counters for a week. Full of bugs and dust circa 1975. It is what it is. Luckily, right around the same time as my meltdown, we had plans to get out of town for a week. We drove to Charleston to watch my little brother, Mathias, graduate from the Navy Nuclear Power School, where he's studying to become a Nuclear Engineer. I'm so proud of him, he's my favorite creature on the earth, 10 years younger than me, and it basically healed my soul to spend a little time with him. I know he's just some random dude in a dapper sailor suit to you, but trust me, to know Mathias is to love Mathias. I have yet to find the exception. Jesse almost loves him even more than me, which is demonstrated by the above picture. They intentionally posed that way, and even barked at me to get out of the picture so that they could capture this celebratory day with a prom photo. This is my life. When that was over, Jesse and I headed to Myrtle Beach so that he could attend a work convention. He worked, I slothed on the beach. Then on the last day, Mathias and Meredith (his girlfriend that I also love) drove down from Charleston and Myrtled it up with us for the evening. They all ate oysters. I did not. It was glorious. Just so you know, I will eat anything. Unless it resembles a loogie. I just got really sidetracked on a brother/beach tangent. So sorry. Anyways, I came back with a new zest for life, which is good, because I was really fading fast. By the time we came home, our floors had been sealed with several layers of satin topcoat, and were finally finished (at least on the main level). I jumped up and down for a full 42 minutes. Just to really hammer home what an improvement this really is, here's our house when we first moved in: And here we are today. It's a floor mini-miracle. And, luckily I captured the miracle when we first got home. Because the very next day, it was filled back up with stuff for the entryway. And it kinda still looks like this. But the good news is that I finally have floors that I love, and we finally have lift off in the entryway pit. It only took 8 little weeks to get to this point. We're going to laugh about that one day. I laughed a little bit while writing that sentence. Too soon. I have a lot more to share about the entryway, and the stair rail is being built today, but we'll talk about all of that soon. Today, we have floors. FLOORS, ya'll. And I might actually have my house back this weekend. Can I hug you? Before we go, I don't have any slightly nauseating life lessons to share with you. But, I will throw in a picture of Cheese, who refuses to look me in the eyes lately. Who can blame her. Just a few more days, girl. And then you can Risky Business yourself all over the house. I'll even get you 4 little white socks. That's all, ya'll. 'Til we meet again. P.S. The other posts in the House Makeover series can be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10 UPDATE: This story was FAR from over. We ended up having to redo these floors entirely. Only a year later. You can read why here. Follow my blog with Follow my blog on or or Subscribe to LiveLoveDIY with email! Enter your email address: -->
Description For 6 Meter Whaler Study Plans, click HERE For 6 Meter Whaler Digital Plans Click HERE ---- I had been talking to a customer at Boat Books where I worked about the problems of the world and what we could do to set things right, all the usual gripes about politicians, lawyers, and petty bureaucrats, you know the sort of thing. But in among the odds and ends, we had a common interest of youth training for at risk teenagers. “Outward Bound” has a base in New Zealand, one which does incredibly good work, but which is expensive to run, and consequently costs more to attend than many can afford. A similar philosophy applied to a “local” level, on a weekend or holiday basis, was my friends thought, and he, as a keen boatie wished to run a small fleet of open boats around the huge shallow harbor where he lived, but as always a good idea, was unable to progress for lack of money. There are two ways of fixing a funding shortfall. One is raise more money, and the other is to take a hard look at the costs. The naval whaler is the public perception of a suitable boat for this type of work, and the image of the big open craft pulling out from the beach under oars while the rest of crew set up the sails in one that will feel familiar to all. Actually, if you put a naval whaler anywhere near a beach you were for it, ‘sand between the planks’. But the genuine thing is in short supply, and some enquiries as to the cost of new boats was a real shock and totally out of the question, so we worked up a list of requirements with the idea of producing a design to suit. Building the boat would be done with volunteer labor supervised by a skilled boatbuilder, and the materials should be easily obtained and worked with common tools and skills. She should carry six trainees plus an instructor, have a job for all when under sail or rowing, but be able to be single-handed when being ferried out to a campsite or returned. Transportation should be by trailer behind a medium sized car when she could not sail to a training destination, and she should be built at a length less than the 6 metre lower limit for the expensive commercial survey requirements that would be required by a bigger boat. We could make her as well built and as seaworthy as the surveyed craft but avoid the costs involved. So, after a few months of occasional work at the drawing board, the 6 Metre Whaler emerged as you see here. Based upon the very successful yawl rigged version of the Navigator cruising dinghy, using the same simple plywood lapstrake over web frames and stringers structure. Traditional in her appearance, double ended, with two masts, and with enough sheer to be really pretty, she needs only about NZ $4000.00 worth of materials and about 220 hours of (competent) labor to complete a very nice little whaler which really looks the part. She has a pair of straight allow tubes as masts, the same sprit booms and proportions of sails as Navigator. There are three rows of reefs in the main, and if the weather requires, she will still balance under main only, or under jib and mizzen only, which gives lots of choices as the wind increases in strength. All spars fit inside the boat to reduce windage when rowing and making stowage when training much easier. An outboard motor is inconspicuous in its well under the aft deck, and there is a steel centerboard that makes her well suited to the shallow harbor and estuaries where she will be based. But that ‘board’ is 85 kg of steel to steady her under what is in fact a powerful rig for her weight. Responses from owners tell me she is a a very fast boat under sail. And in case of really over-doing it, there is enough buoyancy built in to keep all seven occupants afloat. All six trainees will have a job to do when under way. There are three rowing stations on each side of the boat, while the instructor can take the helm and crack the whip. When sailing, there would be one each on port and starboard jibsheets, mainsheet, centerboard, mizzen, and helm. The instructor can relax and keep an eye out of hazards ahead while the crew does the work. As a daysailer, one or two can handle her easily. I like these big open boats for the sheer feeling of space and comfort available in a relatively small boat, and it is in this role that the 6 Metre Whaler is most popular. There are quite a number now sailing as dayboats. One small group is chartering a couple and several are being used very successfully as cruising dinghies. Quite a few people have asked if I would draw up a cabin for her, and should you want your boat to have a ‘lid’ on, then there is certainly room to do that. Plans for Gaff rig (both sloop and yawl are included) is available. L O A - 5.99M 19FT 8IN BEAM - 2.14M 7 FT WEIGHT - 300 KG 661 LBS INC C/BOARD DRAFT - BOARD UP 0.26M/10IN - BOARD DOWN 1.35M/4FT5IN SAIL AREA - 16.25 SQM 175 SQFT View AllClose
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