I'm going to share my failures with you as well as my successes; so here when I was fitting the motor-mount to the foot of the boat (it being stood upright) one of the lengths of stripwood was prised from its sides.
Turns out this was because the length of square-section timber which included the motor was a half-centimetre too long... it having been borrowed from a prior build.
But are we going to let this bother us, and go crying on the staircase?
Yes, but there are always lessons to learn. James Dyson, our foremost industrialist, himself describes the company he founded as an exercise in failure.
And in our case here we look at which surface the glue has successfully adhered to, and that is the raw timber itself. It has not stuck to the edges of the deck, which if you will recall we sealed with undercoat a while back... so we won't do that again, will we?
