For some reason or other, I love ships.
When I get the hull formed, when I'm building, and I start to see something that stops looking like a bunch of wood and starts looking like the hull, I just think it's beautiful.
I went through. I became a reader, and that's had a lot of influence on who I became.
You know, I didn't watch so much TV and started reading, and, you know, as you build models, you get better at it.
The name is Scott Sefranzky.
This is where I can hit my finger with a mallet.
All sorts of dangers in this job. There has been blood.
Trying not to blow it right into the camera.
You've counted all the plastic models I built, along with the wooden ships.
I'm probably up around 30. One of these days I'm going to probably have to either part with a couple of them or build a bigger house.
It becomes a bit of a jigsaw puzzle, and you have to think ahead.
As you continue to do through a hobby like this, you continue to learn and make adjustments.
You know, you learn as you go, and you get better and better.
There are some times when you start a part of it where you've just got to work for a couple hours to get it done to a stopping point.
But I probably mostly do half hour to hour long sessions, after supper in the evening or something.
It may seem stupid, but when you're putting planks on a ship, if you're doing it well, and you're getting them tight and all that, that can be a lot of fun.
The funny thing is when I'm looking at a task. If I'm worried about it, I think about it. It usually goes very well.
If I'm not worried about it, I don't think about it. I regret it. It usually goes poorly, and then I do it again.
Sometimes things go wrong, and you know, you say a lot of really bad stuff. You put it down and you go away from it for a couple of weeks.
The San Felipe, which is one of the latest ones I built, the plans were in another language. I've never been certain what it was.
And so I had to do it without English plans. I had drafts, and my solution was to put them up all around the room, so that then I could look from one to the other and say, okay, this is what it appears to be here, but from this angle, I can see more clearly what's really going on.
And I could build it that way.
Probably a pretty close story to be here.
There's a story behind every one of them. There's people who sailed them. I'm not an engineer, but you can see the engineering in it.
And you can see the kinds of forces it was designed to deal with and counter.
And I just think that's neat.
Thank you.