No build progress today. Meetings, meetings and reps. The Boys Town people were here today but it almost never happened. Their GPS clearly didn't work and they got lost 15 miles from my place so the wife went to lead them in. What a woman. She took the morning off work to be here to provide coffee and cakes for the visitors and still drove to get them. It all worked out great. I'll be training 7 youngsters in the art of fabrication, composites and general workshop stuff. Hopefully they'll be inspired to use their hands in some way towards creating a future for themselves. These kids are at Boys Town due to discipline issues and not crime related problems as I suspected. It turns out that the after hours activities are going to the drag strip, the ice rink and the movies. I may have mentioned that I got into fibreglass at the tender age of 13 making goalie masks for my younger brother so the ice rink thing should be a hoot. MO is to pretend I can't skate and take lessons.
. There's a woman now living in Australia who is a decendant of the Van Gogh family that "took" me skating once back in the early 90s that hasn't spoken to me since.
It's all good and as I don't have children of my own this will be an opportunity to help in some small way. They call South Africa the Rainbow Nation so I've ripped of the #24 pit crew and called my crew the "Rainbow Warriors". Hopefully by this time next year they will have been to the salt (even if it looks like El Mirage) and experienced a liner running. It's about the journey more than the destination as they say and I'm up for it. I posted earlier on the Tauruck thread that my woman sold one of her Fiats to put some funding into my liner. It turns out that the husband of the buyer has a freight company and when I asked about his trucks he said he has 14 triple axle rigs. Guess who is going to transport the car to the salt?.
I've got one pic of where I got to yesterday but I must have wrecked a dozen tubes on the fish mouth deal. Some days you just need to go fishing.
Ignore the bow tie in picture!.