tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2516032827590620515.post7658114292968997789..comments2024-01-22T06:49:09.640-08:00Comments on Boatbuilder Tips for Amateurs: What happens if you make a mistake?Dudley Dixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10463988486568081821noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2516032827590620515.post-29724388903297355952013-01-13T07:48:30.003-08:002013-01-13T07:48:30.003-08:00Bill, thanks for your input. Every boatbuilder wil...Bill, thanks for your input. Every boatbuilder will have a few stories about mistakes, most of which nobody else will ever spot. Now that you have "fessed up", the blackmail value has gone from your mistake.<br /><br />You are right, sleeping on the problem almost always brings a much more sensible point of view and the solution that morning gives is normally much simpler than what the brain conjures up in panic immediately after discovery of the error.Dudley Dixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10463988486568081821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2516032827590620515.post-4718307208421624832013-01-13T06:58:51.295-08:002013-01-13T06:58:51.295-08:00I'm enjoying your new blog and would like to c...I'm enjoying your new blog and would like to come clean and confess a most embarrassing mistake building our 40cr. So embarrassing, only myself and my son know about it and he uses it frequently for blackmail. When raising the bulkheads I repeatedly transposed 64 to 46 and ended with the spacing between D and F being 18mm short. I didn't discover this added character until I was laminating the floors and the floor in question wasn't coming up against E. Puzzlement quickly lead to utter horror as a I realized my error. I'm sure a time lapse of my facial expressions over that 30 minutes would be most comical. I couldn't sleep that night and was such a wreck that I actually considered cutting off the keel, sheer clamps, floors, and stringers and starting over. Morning light brought a new perspective. Structurally, the correction would be trivial, shaving a few mm off some bulkheads would make the hull once again fair, and the build continues on our Didi 39.9cr!<br /><br />The two takeaways are that 1) even significant mistakes can be remedied by dividing the problem into structural (which your designer can help with) and cosmetic problems, dealing with each independently and 2) do not expect perfection unless your are, in fact, perfect.Bill Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491132107866186686noreply@blogger.com