Working on the seat backs.

3 hours.
Just got back from our 4th of July road trip. It was somewhat truncated, due to large parts of Central California having the bad taste to be on fire during our trip. We couldn’t go all the way up Highway One through Big Sur, which is a bummer, because I’ve never actually seen Big Sur in any great detail before. What we did see was the backside of the foothills, where all the wineries and ranches are, and, more importantly, all the little airports that service them. I kept thinking, wow. Horses, woods, vineyards, little airports, and nice weather. What’s not to love? Anyway, to crudely segue back into my build log, that motivated me to do a little work on the plane this weekend. I actually got going on the seat backs again. I re-read the construction manual, and it looks like you’re supposed to do the pedals first, and the seat backs later. It doesn’t look to me like it matters one way or the other, since the seat backs are a discrete and mostly separate part. It matters to me, because once the seat backs are in, i can sit in the canoe and place the pedals exactly to my liking. The manual says to drill some extra holes for the UHMW blocks of the pedal assembly so you can move them back and forth, which is fine, but I’m aiming to start off as close as I can to where I’ll eventually have it.
So what i did was this: I finished cutting all the angle for the seat backs (pain in the arse, no chop saw), and drilled the side supports to one of the seat back panels, also drilled one of the bottom hinges. Now that I’ve done it, I can block out small chunks of time to finish that seat and do the other one. Then it’s probably on to the elevator push tube., then a crapload of painting.

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