Salty's floor goes in!

 Insulation and the plywood floor installed this weekend. Exciting!

Don's continued work on the trailer frame.
July 3, frame goes on the trailer chasis for good.
July 4, Holiday (unheard of, right? but Don is taking the day off)
July 5 & 6, The roof and siding will be going on.

Mary Ann's inside trailer work-
- counter top(s) were ordered and will arrive here tomorrow.
- upholstering the bunk mattresses.
- final decisions about curtains.
- picking out cabinet pulls

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Salty update

A very big THANK YOU goes out to Jeff Bartlett. He spent his weekend replacing the Tongue on Salty's chassis.
 This week new tires, electric brakes, new bushings in the suspension . Then paint . Chassis will be done and ready for the frame to go back on.

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Salty: Center section of trailer

Middle section of frame is complete and the reclaimed windows has been mounted temporarily to re-review the fit. Looking good. 

Looking forward to Easter weekend, when the frame fit is rechecked with the trailer. 

We continue to check and recheck.

 

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Salty: Demonlition Day

This is the weekend that old Salty will be demolished to make place for the new Salty. Don, Erik and Justin removed the vintage louvered windows, front visor and hatch panels to be repurposed into the new Salty.

 During the demolition much of the wood frame was well rotted.

Old Salty, left unattended, could have collapsed on it's own.

 

One more picture of the final bare frame.

Easter weekend, frame fitting.

 

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Salty's personal surfboard

 

The gorgeous 4ft.  couch table arrived today. 

Dana Surfboards made it for us.

Table mounts on the underside, and when not in use, will be decoratively secured on the wall

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Salty, Welding Begins

Opening the door and walking into the trailer greeted you with the waft of decay. 

The wood frame was rotted and about 75% of the framework was not connected.  Our new frame is out of aluminum steel tubing.

Week 1, Don got to work building/welding the front third of his trailer

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