I finally got the keel patched and put the crew to work doing the nastiest job of the year. During the last few years of construction the keels have been collecting inches of grinding dust, plasma dust, weld spatter, tools, leaves and other assorted trash. Just add water and you get the picture. Now we wait for them to dry and they’ll be ready of lead. Mean while we are back to casting deadlights for the portholes.
Mucking Out is DONE!
Wet, cold, and muddy, but the worst is over and I have Jack, Hugh, and Martin to thank for it. Ok, so Martin was seriously late, but that was Delta’s fault. Now we just need a week or two of dry weather so they can dry out, and then it’s time to pour some lead!

Martin Kresadlo stopped in on a business trip. I shook his hand and pointed to a wet vac. This guy knows how to go to work.
The Gingerbread Crew
While nutcrackers pranced and sugar plums danced,
a special magic fell upon Seeker by chance.
A dusting by fairies or mystical things,
turned the boat and the crew into gingerbread beings.



Casting, Rudder, Hatches and other
The engine room hatch has a gasket. A second deadlight is cast. The rudder quadrant now has put out dowel pins as several of you suggested. Thank you! The chain to cable connectors are done for the chain and cable steering system. And you get to see me continue to fail to patch a hole in a keel. 🙂 Many thanks to crew members, Betsy, Su, Aaron S, Jack C, Jack S. Seeker crew rock!
If you love cars and motorcycles, then checkout Aaron Starnes web site and blog: www.aaronstarnes.com
More Clues….
Questioning the suspects…..
Rudder Quadrant / Keels / Deadlight
We had a great weekend despite the keels. Jack Sadrakula flew in from Chicago. We successfully cast another porthole deadlight, he help me unsuccessfully patch a keel. He then completed the gadget that connects the #60 chains to the 3/8″ steel cable for the chain and cable steering system, and then help me unsuccessfully patch the keel again. He then broke and fit the #60 chain and centered up the drive shaft coupler on the helm’s gear box and helped me unsuccessfully patch the keel again. Randy Martin drove in from Denton Texas and while Jack drilled, reamed and set the pull out dowel pins in the rudder quadrant. Randy help me unsuccessfully patch the keel. All and all it was a good weekend thanks to Jack and Randy. Next week I will be patching the leak in the keel.
Xmas Shopping
There’s still time to have a very merry SV Seeker holiday! Padding the USPS estimates (c’mon.. you know they’re running behind), we are pretty darn confident (no guarantees — but confident) that if you order a T-Shirt or Thermal Mug by this Sunday (Dec. 20, 2015), we can pop it in the mail first thing Monday morning and you will have it in time to shove it in your Christmas stocking.
Rates for USPS Priority mail in the USA are very reasonable. Priority shipping for T-shirts is roughly $5. For actual shipping charges, head on over to our Shop and you can fiddle around clicking the shipment buttons in your cart and see what the charges would be. Yep.. you can cram muliple items together and save on shipping charges when you go Priority.
Get your Jolly on and thanks for your support!
CSI Seeker
We haven’t seen our elf in several days — ever since we spotted the crime scene chalk outline on the shard of steel beneath Seeker. Had Rizzo the elf been electrocuted and fallen to his death? Or did somebody kill the little fellow? Why is there no body?
Where is the little guy and what’s he been doing?
Who in the world would have a motive? The Elf Police have been pouring through our surveillance videos in hopes of turning up something that will help and look what they found!!!!!
OMG!!! It’s a picture of Rizzo on Doug’s computer watching FAIRY PORN! Clearly there’s more to this elf than meets the eye!
Grind, Weld, and Poo
The rain held off today and Aaron, Jack and I got the last of the welding and grinding done on cabin tops and deck. In the shop Su and Betsy worked on the art of the next deadlight casting. “Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.” — A.A. Milne
















































