What does your shop look like?

[Stillraining]

I recently told Mainesail that I would beat him with a stick if our paths should ever cross...all in jest of course..*O....Now we all respect..love and appreciate the man but enough is enough...Recently he shared a picture of his "Barn" as he calls it...now I have a barn also...inhabited by 5, 1000 lb termites and the two share no resemblance in any shape or form and certainly not in cleanliness. But a shop is another animal altogether. So I thought it a good idea for some of us to share what a REAL shop looks like. My shop is just that, mine...and if your like me you know where every thing is, as long as knowone moves it..Its first apparent look of disarray is in actuality an on the fly personal and individualized filling system, and not at all random...in other words everything is right where we left it...So for all you out there feeling a little discriminated against I lead the way with the true Man's hang out...Now Main...I must put this caution in here...this may cause you a little restlessness and a feeling of hypertension..then will come the overriding sensation to clean and catalogue the forthcoming ...so take heed..as we share our vernal dens of inequities..... This should go with out saying that this does not necessarily reflect the condition of our boats..But Im working on it... I submit "The Galley"

 

[Rich (P303)]

Don't...

have a shop. I keep all that kind of stuff in the basement. You can't walk down there anymore.

 

[Ray]

This is not a shop! I fail to see the refer.

The British might drink warn brew, but west of the Canary Islands refridgeration is required to obtain the lofty title of a "True Shop".Myself, well I have this "blue tarp" so that qualifies my membership in the "wanabe" club.But, the tarp has no holes and all the eyelets so I am high in the "wanabe" higharchy.Ray

 

[Stillraining]

Ahhhhh!

You are quite right my good friend.... Least I take full your scorn the fridge full of said brew is on the Port side next to the 55 Chevy 3/4 ton. Pardon my negligence in not documenting it..As far as the blue tarp shop...you are in like flint..as long as you dont have pegboards lining the sides with outlines of where each tool goes like Mainsail does....

 

[Stillraining]

Very Nice Tony

Bummmer!! about Katrina...Insurance was probably no help either unless you itemized each item...

 

[LANCE ON CLOUD NINE]

Stillraining, I've always thought very highly of you, but

after seeing your pictures (and I'm not sure why) I like you even more!

 

[Stillraining]

Tom....That shop

Feels like a old shoe or my favorite flannel shirt...Good on ya..

 

[Stillraining]

Why thank you Lance

Not only do you possess great comical whit...but you are also very intelligent as well ...

 

[sailortonyb Allied Mis]

Thanks Stillraining

No insurance on my old shop. I was renting several adjacent mini-storage units and insurance companies did not want to insure mini-storage units in Gulfport, Ms. My equipment there was probably worth about 20 to 30K. I'll never buy that kind of quality again.What i could do in my old shop in a day, now takes all week.Tony B

 

[Doug Burton]

John

You just suck as you have a REAL shop. No fair.  Someday soon I hope to be living aboard and have questioned what to do with my tools. Get something bigger than a 38 or sell tools? Just scrape your fingernails on a ckalkboard or bounce a grinder off my skin on that thought. Sooo, Tony's answer seems to work but it makes travel incumbered. There isn't an answer but I did check Yachtworld today for 50'+ boats for under 100K and suprisingly enough, there are a few. Now a spare quarterberth with a lathe and a mig welder is the ultimate shop.

 

[tcbro]

Sorry, no pics

My main man-cave is our 24'x24' 2-car garage. It's a good thing I drive a little car. If I pick my daughter up at school she has to get out of the car before I back into the garage. There's only room to open the door on 1 side at a time. In addition to my car my side holds 2 Harleys, a 50hp Merc outboard, a cement mixer, a compressor, 2 Kerosene heaters, a desk, a table saw, a band saw, a surface planer, 2 seats from a Porsche 944, some steel shelving, a wooden shelving unit, a workbench, my Craftsman tool chest and various other odds and ends. I try to keep my wife's side uncluttered. Her side holds her car, 3 or 4 bicycles, the trash can, a steel shelving unit and a workbench across the back with the welder and the pressure washer underneath. Hanging from the ceiling I have a couple of bicycles, the canoe, the kayak, the DN iceboat and my dinghy (in the winter). Her side is the "work" side. If I have work to do her car gets moved outside so I have room (my side is still too small, even with my car outside). Her car has been out all week while I've been sanding and varnishing the dinghy. I do have a 10'x16' storage shed out back with the lawn tractor and all of my yard equipment as well as an old Kawasaki 750 2 stroke.As with Roger, no horizontal surface is left uncluttered. I've been thinking about a dedicated shop out back for the last few months. Something around 16'x24'. I've got a lot of other places that money should go first.

 

[TimCup]

I just spent a ridiculous amoutn of money this morning

for the best color printer I could find. I'm enlarging and printing every picture on this post, and giving them to my wife on my birthday in two weeks. There is NOTHING in my storage area that can be reached without climbing over two other things. I can't find anything in the first three minutes, which happens to be the maximum time I can search before I forget what I'm looking for. I usually give up and go get a beer, but that's another story...Anyway, I've been taking abuse for my filing system for years. I CAN'T WAIT to show her I adhere strictly to the "sailors standard"!! Happy birthday to me!!CupMaine Sail- please, please don't ruin this for me. I beg you, start another post!!

 

[TimCup]

by the way, Stillraining-

Great thread!!cup

 

[Stillraining]

Im gettin a warm fuzzy feeling all over *5

This feels great guys ...Keep them coming...Jim you score a 10 for that tarp and thoes stairs, gotta love it..more pictures PLEASE!!Ken I have dozens of half finished projects laying around...I don't have to think of things to do that way..I trip over them...and what I might need for one often comes my way cheap while sitting there... Case in point...that fully Hot tanked and machined 4 bolt main 350 block for 100 bucks... Ill get it in my 1972 3/4 ton 4x4 some day...along with a frame off restoration of it and my wifes 55 God willing...IMHO, ANY REAL shop will have years of dust on several projects...the clock in my shop quit working years ago ..I have never replaced it.. ..

 

[TimCup]

I KNEW you'd ruin it!

You can walk around...not over. You can see everything without moving anything else... children can walk through without danger... I can't live up to this standard. No way. I just knew you'd have more than one vacuum in that garage. Some mess. The government posted danger signs on mine- guess they thought fallout from the apparent nuclear blast was a real risk..cup

 

[Calif. Ted]

Glad to see I'm not the only one with

the wife's new car parked in the snow 'cause there's a "spare" boat or three in the 2 car garage. Hard to make her understand the economics behind $20,000 car in driveway and $5,000 worth of boat that MUST be protected from the weather.

 

[Stillraining]

Nice try Main

But the left hand wall and back left corner still looks like the paint department at Lowes...*O... However I bet after you snapped the picture of this obviously staged ruse everything was back ship shape.. Still....a glimmer of hope though...Gorgeous bench Dan...Had one very similar planed but opted for a lesser temporary one...25 years later...HeeHeee.. is that still temporary? Oh by the way is that a home made glass bead blast cabinet???..If so CooooooL !! I want one.

 

[Ken Honeycutt]

Main Sail - as soon as I convince my SO

That it is in her best interest to park her car in the driveway - that's what my garage will look like. Unfortunately that will never happen.