Hmmmm...
Deciding for a standard of workmanship and finish can be difficult, sometimes. On a scale going from ‘leaky shed’ to ‘Taiwan Rococo’, I try to land on a level in between. Not being very patient, and not being too fond of doing carpentry, I have to cut corners:
- · Priority number one is to avoid rot and rust (read: avoid water ingress).
- · Priority number two is to make things work without getting very complex.
- · Last priority with me is to make things look neat. I spend little time on sanding, and I never hide (plug) screw heads unless it is to stop water ingress.
Still, I don’t completely disregards the looks of things. When I got my Ingeborg, she had been refurbished inside, and like all boats of her time, her interior is dominated by ‘brown tree’, mahogany, I guess. It took me over a year before I dared to do any changes inside. I didn’t want to install ‘pale tree’; spruce or fir among all the brown. Neither did I want to cut down a rain forest to get it right. The compromise has been to use ‘teak on a can’ to stain the fir I have installed. It’s a kind of cheap, quick and dirty way of doing things, but that’s me, for sure.
Annie, by contrast, clearly wants Fanshi, her pride and joy, to look very, very smart, even if it has cost her another year to achieve that standard of finish. That’s fine, I respect that. As long as she and I share the same first priority; avoid rot and rust, I am fine with this (.. btw, I think her way of using colours, including pink, looks great - in a girlish way...).
So I surely defend anyone’s right to set a high standard of finish - as much as I defend my own right to play in the ‘Good-Enough League’.
Cheers,
Arne