You know you're a Bateau boat builder when:

Cracker Larry · Post by **Cracker Larry** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 8:39 am

When your dog wakes up from a nap and finds himself glued to the floor, and his right hind foot glued to his left ear..

Joe H · Post by **Joe H** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 9:14 am

When you wake the whole neighborhood and threaten to burn the garage down because you just discovered that your wife while moving the patio furniture put a 6” scratch right down to the primer on your beautifully painted hull!

Joe H

Mad Dog · Post by **Mad Dog** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 9:27 am

When your wife tells her friends your boat building projects are the "other woman" or "mistress in the garage."

MD

robbiro · Post by **robbiro** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 9:36 am

When your friends refer to you as "Noah" and ask if it will take you 100 years to finish the boat. They also ask if you are receiving animals in pairs for the voyage!!!

Knottybuoyz · Post by **Knottybuoyz** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 11:29 am

robbiro wrote:When your friends refer to you as "Noah" and ask if it will take you 100 years to finish the boat. They also ask if you are receiving animals in pairs for the voyage!!!

Yup had that happen. My standard reply is: 'Only if they're human female, twins, blonds or red heads between the ages of 18 and 29!' That usually gets me a slap upside the head from the wife!

Prarie Dog · Post by **Prarie Dog** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 2:52 pm

When you open that first jug of epoxy after not building for a year or so. Something about smell and memory is real powerful. I always get flooded with memories and that BBV feeling that leads to a lack of social focus, the ability to not hear or remember anything your wife or child said for the last couple of weeks, etc. The inability to add correctly when someone asks you "what have you spent on that thing?". SWMBO usually makes faces and rolls her eyes at times like this.

This is a great thread.

When you want to build one like the plans!! so that everything fits.

Cracker Larry · Post by **Cracker Larry** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 3:00 pm

When at the end of the day you find all your toes are glued together..

When you've ruined 3 shirts in 3 days leaning over a boat spreading fairing compound..

When you give up on shirts and spend the next 2 nights digging fairing compound out of your belly button...

Knottybuoyz · Post by **Knottybuoyz** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 3:28 pm

Cracker Larry wrote: When you give up on shirts and spend the next 2 nights digging fairing compound out of your belly button...

......after you've used half a gallon of white vinegar to release the shirt from the belly hairs!

Knottybuoyz · Post by **Knottybuoyz** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 12:27 pm

You know you're a boat builder when you can no longer fold the arms of your eyeglasses closed because they're permanently epoxied in the open position! Don't ask me how I know.

wadestep · Post by **wadestep** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:58 pm

... When you have to take the leaf blower into the garage and do 'a light dusting'. Then the dust cloud sits over your house and your neighbor's like a smog blanket. I now look for windy days to 'dust'.

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