{"id":587,"date":"2013-09-30T14:20:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T18:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/?p=587"},"modified":"2013-10-06T14:32:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T18:32:47","slug":"update-from-the-cape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/2013\/09\/30\/update-from-the-cape\/","title":{"rendered":"Update from the Cape"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dreadnought<\/a>
Dreadnought 32 Idle Queen sailing Buzzard’s Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We haven’t covered many miles in the month since arriving in Massachusetts; well, not by sea anyway. \u00a0Idle Queen<\/em>\u00a0has been sitting mostly idle, tied to a graciously loaned mooring while her crew wonders what hurdles the new US health care law will have us jump through. \u00a0That’s not all we’ve been up to, but this has been a time for doing things that don’t often fit into the cruising life–like reading a daily newspaper. \u00a0Most of the focus for this downtime has been on trying to clear out the clutter aboard, visiting friends and family, and working on projects like finally putting together the little Dyer Midget that I bought back in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

\"Dyer<\/a>
Rebuilding the Dyer–attaching the new rubrail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Dyer Midget dinghy has turned out to be more difficult to put together than I had originally anticipated, but this is mostly because I feel obligated to rebuild it the way that Dyer intended, rather than just build new parts out of resin and fibers. \u00a0Then again, everything takes three times longer than I ever think that it will. \u00a0I bought this dinghy knowing that it would be a project. \u00a0Someone else had taken it apart with the intent of restoring it, as many of the wooden parts had rotted away to nothing.<\/p>\n

\"Dyer<\/a>
Tight-radius curve at the bow of the Dyer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Now, the problem with this situation for me is that my woodworking skills are pretty much limited to building stands for outboard engines out of 2-by-6’s and bolts, or using loosely-fitted wood components as reinforcing for things built of fiberglass. \u00a0The construction of the Dyer Midget involves closely-fitted pieces and steam-bent wood–both things that I have little experience with. \u00a0The biggest problem has been fitting the strong wooden pieces to the fragile, unreinforced fiberglass shell–the floppy fiberglass risks being ripped apart as I torture resistant pieces of white oak into place to reinforce it. \u00a0I keep telling myself that I will be rewarded with a tough, light boat by sticking with the wooden parts that the original design calls for, but I originally thought that I would have this project done in a week of spare time. \u00a0It has already dragged out to three times my original projection. \u00a0While good progress has been made, the end is not yet near.<\/p>\n

\"Cape<\/a>
Cape Cod Bay view from the Canal. It’s getting chilly for swimming.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Autumn has arrived with chilly, clear nights. \u00a0Idle Queen<\/em> is tugging at her mooring. \u00a0Soon it will be time to commit to a plan for the winter, and that will probably involve sailing somewhere south to avoid freezing weather. \u00a0In the meantime, we have been enjoying occasional perfect sailing days and the beautiful scenery of this part of the New England coast.<\/p>\n

\"Dreadnought<\/a>
Friends with another Dreadnought 32 in the Cape Cod Canal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We haven’t covered many miles in the month since arriving in Massachusetts; well, not by sea anyway. \u00a0Idle Queen\u00a0has been sitting mostly idle, tied to a graciously loaned mooring while her crew wonders what hurdles the new US health care law will have us jump through. \u00a0That’s not all we’ve been up to, but this… Continue reading Update from the Cape<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreadnought-32-idle-queen","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ztFW-9t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}