when I lived aboard my boat in Ft. Lauderdale for three years, finding any place to work on anything usually meant going out on the dock.
Which was frowned upon normally but as liveaboards, my wife and I were the only people in the marina during the day usually, except for the legions
of boat washers and tradesmen who would come in daily to work on the hundred or so other large motoryachts. We had almost the smallest boat in that marina,
were genuine paupers in comparison to the rest of the big 70 foot Hatteras owners, plus they had a megayacht dock, and thankfully my wife befriended the dockmaster and cooked for him.
She love to cook and bake onboard, was constantly tripping the breakers, but until she went back to work as a nurse, she
cooked a big dinner every night, and I loved it. And boy did I gain weight... and so did our skinny Dockmaster.
Well.....the no liveaboard rule was conveniently ignored, plus he liked our company.
As an old fireman, I helped him in emergencies, like during a couple of hurricanes.
So here I am in this very nice locked gate marina in a Turnberry Isle country club, where my wife got to play golf every day for free on a tournament course.
She won the ladies tournament and was promptly ostracized for doing so by the much older stinking rich female golfers who were so mean to her
she came home in tears. Now that was one excellent reason to come home to PA but we stuck with it. She just no longer played with the women, as the men
loved having her as a fourth.
Dockside repairs were on a small Workmate I kept in one closet. So Don, you have a palace of room by comparison, I bet the Japanese have a perfect compact
folding repair shop...which operates by remote control. Now you have to have a remote.
What works well without one?
Won't make you a better carpenter but sure gives you some
"watch this" appeal.
Nice combo rolling bench if room, Workmate if not. For me it's always been what to do with the mess, the dust/wood chips/paint drips and fumes
that was the problem. I guess that's what a nice tarp is for. Sounds like a fun project to prepare the space for more projects.
