Aristo! Aristo! A la lanterne!: The Little Hooker

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

The Little Hooker

About 6 years ago, we bought this boat while the buying was good.

Buying was good, but time to work on it... and laziness.... not so good. Still, the price was excellent and it came with a salvageable trailer (with title). A 1950's Sears flat bottom on a Cox boat trailer, and it even came with a 1950's Sears 5hp outboard that may or may not ever run again.

Now is the time to dooo eeeet. I have the time, and I'm forcing the daily energy as best I can. It will take a bit, but we can see ourselves not catching fish from this boat in the near future.

I had this image in my head of just shoving the boat in our truck and heading to the lake. The trailer needs work, and I'm lazy and poor.

Hah! As I dragged this beastie out of the weeds and into the drive to clean it up, I couldn't recall the thing being a mile long. 14 feet of aluminuminuminum hole in the water. Yeah, that is not going to ride well in the 5 foot bed of our truck.

Guess I'm rehabbing the Cox boat trailer.

The trailer needs new tires & wheels, all new wiring and lights, a license plate bracket, and the winch repaired. The wooden bunkers are fine for now, although I may put strips of outdoor carpet on them for padding.

Today, I'll start by cleaning the boat. Spray chem and a pressure washer.

Maybe tomorrow I'll tear down the trailer and source the parts we need.

Once the trailer is rehabbed, and the boat cleaned up and back on the trailer, both need new registration ($$OUCH$$). Then the boat needs to be kitted out with the necessary gear. After all that... maybe we go fishing!

Herself wishes to name the old girl 'The Little Hooker'. I'm leaning towards 'NOFF' (Not One $@#$%&$ Fish).

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Robert Heinlein

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please — this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time — and squawk for more!
So learn to say No — and to be rude about it when necessary.
Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

(This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)"