Re - Inventing the Wheel :: Part ?????

The saga continues..... actually , it limps along

The boat got waterborne this week
The history ... two weeks ago started charging the batteries
Last week got to-gether safety equipment , insurance and ownership
also , re - charged the batteries

This week , checked and charge batteries , carried safety stuff down to the boat - shouldn't have bothered b/c I had left all that in the boat over winter. This really isn't smart. The fire extinguisher shouldn't undergo drastic temperature swings and the bins tend to get mildew
It all worked out
The marine railway , has been checked for level - apparently , not enough. I did the in the water work 3 weeks ago. Thought that I'd levelled out the inside or land portion. As the boat wobbled down the ramp , aha , numb nuts , you call that level ???  So ,more wood under the rails

The boat cranked over on the first try. The boat flew down the river except for the chicken driver who was looking for logs. Imagine people just push out logs etc into the river , who dat ????

RItW :   The boat house door is a metal garage door. The locking mechanism failed long before I got it. Normally , a pin goes through the sliding part of the door and the jamb. Except that the holes are about 2 in apart - the foundation hasn't settled from the flooding.
Back to the drawing board. After , several hours contemplating - I used metal strapping w/ the holes pre- drilled. I screwed the affair onto the moving door part and the pin , now , goes through the hole on the jamb. I guess until the ground settles.
The substitute for the pin , so far , has been to chain the garage door down. Time consuming and silly. Thus , re-inventing the wheel

Weather : we got deluged , predictions said close to an inch , the were right
I look up and water is pouring over the eavestrough - out w/ the ladder - something was building a nest ( or saving grass and twigs in my eavestrough ). Soaked to the skin but the water flowed down the trough.