La Gomera Update 5 – It looks like a shop bought one!
Posted on November 7th, 2013
The repairs are complete!! After several days of Anglo-German collaboration, Andy the boat builder and I have fixed Haskapa!! OK, so in terms of European engineering projects it’s not quite up there with the Eurofighter, but we’re pretty pleased with it – and it almost looks like one you’d buy in a shop!! Like many of my building projects, it looked like a dog’s dinner mid-way through, but normally ends up looking the part.
Admittedly it’s probably a bit over-engineered and almost up there with the workstation that Peter & I built for the old Wilderness Expertise office at Wellington College in 2004. That could survive a nuclear blast!! In fact, come Armageddon, only that workstation, Haskapa’s deck and cockroaches will survive!!
But don’t get the idea that all my work is over-engineered! I could point you at a number of temporary ‘lean-to’ buildings and structures that are rather less well built! Although after the recent strong winds in the UK, pointing to exactly where they are might be hard, as these may well be scattered across Southern Britain. If a piece landed in your garden, sorry – no hard feelings, eh? You never know, one day it might be worth something!! At the very least you can say it came from a sustainable source, even if the original structure was far from being so!!
I digress. So, have a bit of work to do in terms of re-rigging once the various materials used in the work have ‘gone off’ (dried!!). Then some admin to sort, a double check of the weather forecast (currently OK – but with stronger winds forecast Fri pm- Sat), and all being well we should be on our way by Saturday morning.
