Boat Journal

Well, I finally did it. I decided the music was important enough to me that I went ahead and put holes between the cabin and the cockpit so I could have tunes when sailing.

So, I picked up a small saw, my drill, and some screws. I already had the wire I needed and a mounting frame(?). And I set to work.

The place I wanted to put it was lined with wood I was trying to miss on the inside, so I measured carefully to make sure they went in the proper place.

Somehow, over the months I'd had the speakers, I lost the pattern that was included. So I created my own.

I drew the holes and measured again:

I drilled a couple of sample holes, just to make sure I'd gotten it right. And I still seemed to have messed it up, since one of the holes ended up in the wood.

I used the drill to create a ring of holes around the ring, as I'd read in a book recently. Then I used the saw I'd purchased to connected them and finish the job. But the saw broke after getting only 1/4 way around one of the holes. So I finished it up by using the drill to connect the dots.

I finished it up, then put epoxy in to seal the wood and fiberglass against water damage.

Notice how thick it is? That really surprised me!